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{{infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name            = Orkidea
| background      = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| image           = DJ Orkidea.jpg
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| landscape       =
| caption         = Orkidea in August 2011
| birth_name      = Tapio Hakanen
| alias           = DJ Orkidea
| birth_date      = {{birth year and age|1977}}
| birth_place     =
| origin          = [[Helsinki]], Finland
| genre           = [[Electronic music|Electronic]]
| occupation      = {{hlist|[[Disc Jockey|DJ]]|[[record producer]]|[[remixer]]}}
| instrument      = {{hlist|Synthesizer|[[digital audio workstation]]}}
| years_active    = 1998–present
| label           = {{hlist|[[AVA Recordings|AVA]]||[[Universal Music Group|UMG]]|[[Black Hole Recordings|Black Hole]]|[[Armada Music|Armada]]|Five AM|Steelfish|Pure Trance|Intuition|Solaris|Unity}}
| associated_acts =
| website         = {{URL|http://djorkidea.com}}
}}
'''Tapio Hakanen''' (born 1977), better known by his stage name '''DJ Orkidea''' (predominantly shortened to '''Orkidea'''), is a Finnish [[electronic music]] artist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stara.fi/2008/02/04/dj-orkidea-julkaisee-uuden-levyn/|title=DJ Orkidea julkaisee uuden levyn|date=4 February 2008|publisher=Stara|language=fi|access-date=27 August 2011}}</ref> He has been one of Scandinavia's top DJs for over 10 years{{when|date=August 2023}} and has been voted twice "[[Most Popular Nordic DJ]]" in the Swedish/Danish Megamind's voting and elected five times as "Best DJ" at the [[Finnish Club Awards]]. Orkidea has made remixes for big trance labels like [[Anjunabeats]] or [[Hooj Choons]] and for artists like [[Tiësto]], [[Tilt (producers)|Tilt]], and [[Way Out West (duo)|Way Out West]]. He was employed as a sound design manager at [[Nokia|Nokia Corporation]]<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tapio-hakanen/0/24/350] {{dead link|date=August 2020}}</ref> and {{as of|2023|lc=y}} he serves as the head of music for the Finnish public broadcaster [[Yle]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Saulo|first=Sandra|url=https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-10005265|title=UMK24-biisihaku on alkanut — Oletko sinä Käärijän seuraaja?|date=21 August 2023|access-date=22 August 2023|publisher=Yle}}</ref>
== Discography ==
===Albums===
;Studio albums
* ''Music Speaks in Thousand Languages'' (2005)
* ''Metaverse'' (2008)
* ''20'' (2011)
* ''Harmonia'' (2015)
;Compilation albums
* ''Taika (Selected Works '98-'03)'' (2003)
* ''Solarstone Presents... Pure Trance'' (2012) <small>(with [[Solarstone]])</small>
* ''Pure Progressive Vol. 1'' (2020)
;Remix albums
* ''A Place Called Happiness'' (2005)
* ''20Ximer'' (2013)
===Singles===
* "Unity" (1999)
* "Beautiful" (2005)
* "YearZero" <small>(with [[Andy Moor (producer)|Andy Moor]])</small> (2007)
* "Eternal Love" <small>(vs. Mitchell)</small> (2007)
* "Slowmotion" <small>(vs. [[Solarstone]])</small> (2009)
* "Zeitgeist" <small>(vs. Solarstone)</small> (2010)
* "Hale Bopp" <small>(with [[JS16]])</small> (2012)
* "Slowmotion II" <small>(vs. Solarstone)</small> (2013)
* "Redemption" (2015)
* "Z21" <small>(with Activia)</small> (2015)
* "Glowing Skies" <small>(with Lowland)</small> (2015)
* "Revolution Industrielle" (2015)
* "Strange World" <small>(featuring Sami Uotila)</small> (2016)
* "Epicentre" (2017)
* "Forward Forever" (2018)
* "Metta" (2019)
===Remixes===
* [[Tiësto]] - "[[Flight 643]]" (2001)
* [[Tilt (producers)|Tilt]] - "Twelve" (2004)
* [[Way Out West (duo)|Way Out West]] - "Killa" (2005)
* [[Nightwish]] - "[[Bye Bye Beautiful]]" (2008)
* [[Hans Zimmer]] - "Time" (2010)
* [[Nightwish]] - "11th track on Imaginarium" (2011)
* [[Solarstone]] - "Touchstone" (2011)
*[[Hans Zimmer]] - "Interstellar Theme" (2015)
==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.djorkidea.com/ DJ Orkidea's website]
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* [http://trancehub.com/interviews/djs-producers/orkidea-20/ Interview with Trance Hub, November 2011]
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[[Category:1977 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:DJs from Helsinki]]
[[Category:Remixers]]
[[Category:Finnish trance musicians]]
[[Category:Electronic dance music DJs]]
[[Category:Nokia people]]
[[Category:Microsoft employees]]
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