Antti Tapio Hakanen (born 1977), better known by his stage name DJ Orkidea (predominantly shortened to Orkidea), is a Finnish electronic music artist. He has been one of Scandinavia's top DJs for over 10 years 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, and Way Out West. He was employed as a sound design manager at Nokia Corporation and as of 2023 he serves as the head of music for the Finnish public broadcaster Yle.
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) (with Solarstone)
Pure Progressive Vol. 1 (2020)
Remix albums
A Place Called Happiness (2005)
20Ximer (2013)
Singles
"Unity" (1999)
"Beautiful" (2005)
"YearZero" (with Andy Moor) (2007)
"Eternal Love" (vs. Mitchell) (2007)
"Slowmotion" (vs. Solarstone) (2009)
"Zeitgeist" (vs. Solarstone) (2010)
"Hale Bopp" (with JS16) (2012)
"Slowmotion II" (vs. Solarstone) (2013)
"Redemption" (2015)
"Z21" (with Activia) (2015)
"Glowing Skies" (with Lowland) (2015)
"Revolution Industrielle" (2015)
"Strange World" (featuring Sami Uotila) (2016)
"Epicentre" (2017)
"Forward Forever" (2018)
"Metta" (2019)
Remixes
Tiësto - "Flight 643" (2001)
Aalto - "Rush" (2003) (with Super8)
Tilt - "Twelve" (2004)
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)
Orkidea discography at Discogs
Interview with Trance Hub, November 2011 Archived 2012-07-12 at the Wayback Machine