I am playing this Friday at the 10th anniversary event - Heimojen Kohtaaminen - of Klubitus.org website. Klubitus is the main discussion forum for finnish clubbers and has been serving us promoters well during the years. Big thanks and respect to Anqqa for running the site all these years. Tomorrow’s party is quite a who-is-who in finnish club land with full spectrum of genres covered from chill out to hard dance. Line up includes: Art of Trance (live, UK), Orkidea, Proteus vs Eliot Ness, Oded Peled vs Orion, Muffler vs Genki, Bobby Speed, Kaiu & Sakura, Mekaanikko, DJ Anqh, Tres, Mayah vs DJ Skai.

I will play a 4,5 hour set in the main room (22:00-02:30) before the legendary british Art of Trance finishing the night with a one hour live set. I will play a retrospective set from the past 10 years ranging from deep prog house to full on trance with probably some techno and/or psytrance dropped in too. I have also plenty of amazing new music with me so probably there will be some future classics dropped in the mix too…

With the venue being the recently updated Freda 51, production done by [:reiv] and sound system provided by Precision Audio - this one looks like a blast! Check out full info from the Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=10150135877170702&ref=ts.

1. Sasha: SparkyLives (V_rtek Mix)
2. Mason: You Are Not Alone
3. Vibrasphere: Purple
4. Sander Kleinenberg: M.A.N.I.A.C.
5. Pryda: M.S.B.O.Y.
6. Marmion: Schoneberg (Sebastian Krieg & Strobe Remix)
7. BT: Forget Me (Michael Cassette Remix)
8. Rank 1, Wippenberg & Nic Chagall: 100
9. Max Graham feat Ana Criado: Nothing Else Matters

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Summer time - is a big tune time! The music of July episode of Radio Unity is delivered by quite a few of my all time musical heroes: Sasha, BT, Kleinenberg, Prydz and Vibrasphere to name a few. Even if July is also time for the big summer festivals don’t be afraid - this won’t be filled with the arena mega anthems but with (in my humble opinion) the best progressive house and prog trance around at the moment. Quite a few vocal tracks of this episode keep the smell of cheddar lurking around the corner though but lets not be THAT serious and lets just enjoy the great vocal and lyrical deliveries of these brightly creative people. I’m enjoying an offline holiday (highly recommended to everyone!) at the moment so unfortunately I won’t be joining the discussion at the Afterhours.fm board this time:( The NRJ at the Club radio show is also on a pause until October so there won’t be Radio Unity mix this Saturday.

• Show: DJ Orkidea: Radio Unity 019
• Time: 3rd Wed of the month @ 21-22 CET (22-23 FIN time)
• Live streams: http://forum.ah.fm/
• Live chat: http://bit.ly/radiounity019-ahfm
• Podcast in iTunes: http://bit.ly/radiounityitunes
• Old podcasts, tracklists and direct downloads: http://bit.ly/orkidea-podcast

Today’s Radio Unity is slightly more uplifting than what I’ve been playing during the last months.Still firmly in the space of “progressive trance” but with couple more uplifting goodies included and also the more proggy stuff is this time clearly four-to-the-floor material instead of more atmospheric stuff. Included is the title track from Solarstone’s forthcoming beautiful Touchstone album, somewhat exclusive first play of an amazing new Allende bootleg and premier of me and Solarstone collaborating again (after 2008 Slowmotion). Max Graham is also back in fine form, we’ll hear strong remixes from men of the moment Avicii and Jerome Isma-ae while the end will feature proper driving psy-trance from Astrix and Protoculture. Hope you’ll enjoy the journey and feel free to join the live discussion at Afterhours.fm message board.

• Show: DJ Orkidea: Radio Unity 018
• Time: 3rd Wed of the month @ 21-22 CET (22-23 FIN time)
• Live streams: http://forum.ah.fm/
• Live chat: http://bit.ly/radiounity018-ahfm
• Podcast in iTunes: http://bit.ly/radiounityitunes
• Old podcasts, tracklists and direct downloads: http://bit.ly/orkidea-podcast

Weekends for a DJ don’t get much better than this I could say. This Friday and Saturday are exactly why I still (after 19 years) love DJing, promoting and making music from the bottom of my heart.

On Friday we had my long time hero Eric Prydz at our LOVE event in Helsinki. His two hour set was (at least in my humble opinion) the set of the year. It’s unbelievable that someone can play such a set consisting almost fully from his own music. Many unreleased anthems and some great exclusive versions from his well known hits like Pjaano, On/Off and his Faithless remix. Besides the music the place looked the best we’ve had at LOVE so far (mad props to Tea & Severi, Markus, Otso and Jenni for that!), there were lot of friends around, the ice cannons were blasting and overall with 1000 people we were super happy with the whole night. Can’t wait for the next LOVE…

On Saturday I played a classics (1994-2000) set at legendary Hype Club’s reunion party at Presidentti. If on Friday we had lots friends around then Saturday felt like a really big house party with sooooo many old friends around. Playing classics is always fun as long as it’s a rare enough treat taking place only with special occasions. Which this night definitely was! You don’t see every night Heikki L, Super8, Tab, Milla Lehto, Peled Bros and tons of other promoters and DJs having it big time on the dance floor. Many thanks to Jay Mellin for inviting me - it was an honour. And greets and lots of respect to Jaskari, Jokke, Rale and rest of the old skool gang.

Btw, a very special shout out to the many faces that I see on almost every gig here in Helsinki. It is heart warming to see you turn up to so many parties and great to see you’re being musically openminded and enjoying all sorts of different sets that I’m playing. Respect!