Radio Unity is back
21 January 2009
After a year of radio silence my monthly radio show is back in da buziness! Even if it’s a business with no money involved;) I did a monthly show for Finnish National Radio for almost ten years but when stopped doing it in late 2007 I was looking for a more international and web focused alternative as I see the future of radio (for alternative music at least) heavily in the web.
Couple months ago discussions with Afterhours.fm resulted in getting a monthly one hour slot on this trance radio. Ah.fm has simultanous listener figures of around 1000 people - making it one of the most popular EDM channels out there (alongside di.fm, etn.fm & protonradio.com) with the likes of Markus Schulz, Blank & Jones, Kyau & Albert, Marcus Schossow and Lange holding residencies.
My show will air every third Wednesday of the month at 21:00-22:00 CET (+1 GMT) meaning 22:00-23:00 Finnish time. The show will focus mainly in melodic progressive house and progressive trance with occasional psy-trance, breakz, techno or chill-out cuts featured as well. AH.FM is a true diehard trance channel, but personally I put music in two genres: Good and Bad and try to play the Good stuff in my sets;) Also nowadays I tend to find lots of music with a strong trance-like feel and vibe (melodic, hypnotic, driving, atmospheric) which is labeled something totally different.
The show will be “music only” for the time being but let’s see if it will become a “properly presented program” in some point.. Episodes will also be available the next week after the airing as podcast from my website. Podcast info and tracklist coming up always to:
http://www.djorkidea.com/charts/
First show will air tonight - Wednesday 21st of January- and features some fresh and unreleased material from Quivver, Way Out West, Union Jack, Beetseekers, Tarrantella and Redanka and two of my favorite tracks from 2009. As with the “old Radio Unity” the show will have occasional special episodes like chill out/classics/producer features. I hope you will enjoy the show and feel free to email me your feedback at orkidea@appelsiini.net, comment at my site or join the live discussion during the airing at:
Radio Unity topic at Afterhours forum
-With looove & rrrrespect from Helsinki, Orkidea
21 January 2009
It was about time! Something has been seriously missing since the broadcast of Radio Unity Grande Finale in December 2006 - I still remember the nostalgic feelings when listening to PvD’s The Riddle as one of last tracks… Good to have you back, sir!
21 January 2009
Awesome!
I’ve been waiting for this news for a while. If you’re taking requests then BT as a producer feature would be perfect, after all he is finally coming to Finland to the Laserpoint event.
21 January 2009
W00t!
If the 2 promo sets that were broadcast here and there in November and December are any indication of what’s upcoming then my new favorite radio show has just been born : )
Thumbs up for podcasting it as well!
21 January 2009
I have been waiting for that “Radio Unity Podcast” since 2006! I hope that it will be “properly presented program” some day
21 January 2009
Superb news. Not only is Radio Unity back but the whole world can hear it now. The podcast is a great move too.
21 January 2009
Laura: I’m excited about this too. For a DJ it’s important to have residencies both radio and club. That’s where you get to develop your sound on long term. Hope you’ll like the show!
21 January 2009
jjakobsson: BT is definitely up there on my list of possible producer features. Would be great to do it before the Helsinki gig but that show is something that needs the talking and I’m not sure if that will be coming just few months… Way Out West and Marc Mitchell are likely candidates too.
21 January 2009
Ericc: the sound in Radio Unity will be very much like the two mixes I did last year. Melodic progressive house and progressive trance. Quite much on the listening side of things so no banging techno or tech trance probably;)
21 January 2009
Hello Orkidea !
I’m happy with some alternative styles you bring in at Afterhours.FM !
21-01-2009 Orkidea - Radio Unity 001 http://forum.ah.fm/livesets-ah-fm/15193-21-01-2009-orkidea-radio-unity-001-a.html
Very nice start !
22 January 2009
If you don’t want to wait for the podcast the internet is your friend:)
http://rapidshare.com/files/187363791/Orkidea_-_Radio_Unity_001_2009-01-21.rar
http://letitbit.net/download/d8448d965763/Orkidea—Radio-Unity-001-2009-01-21.rar.html
http://uploadbox.com/files/xjAZcXBJDF
27 January 2009
Podcast is downloadable on Wednesday 28th. We’re fine tuning the system such that it will (hopefully) be OK for the five years. Sorry for the delay!
28 January 2009
Set now available here on website player on each radio episodes playlist page. You can subscribe to the podcast at http://feeds.feedburner.com/djorkidea/podcast
9 February 2009
MAN, what a great SET, hope to hear more from you, greetings from Mexico