dj orkidea @electric night life at red velvet lounge, 17.11.11.
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sunnuntai 20. marraskuuta 2011
keskiviikko 19. tammikuuta 2011
Orkidea :: Radio Unity 025 [19.01.11]
Orkidea :: Radio Unity 025broadcast on ah.fm.
direct download /137.51mb / soundcloud.
originally posted by Ericc B:01. Daft Punk: The Grid
Have any of you guys ever noticed that Orkidea sets cause time warps? He starts and poof an hour is gone before you know it.
The best soundtrack of 2010 which will hopefully bring Daft Punk at least nomination in Oscars. The soundtrack does such justice to the legacy of the original film and work so well with the amazing sound design of the film. Highly recommended!
02. Ivan Nikusev & Wav-E: Aurora (Airwave Breaks Remix)
Belgium legend Airwave delivers sublime breakz trance remix to Mystique Music which is filled with emotion and paints a futuristic sonic picture of wide atmospherics and subsonic basslines. Retro and futuristic at the same time.
03. Eelke Kleijn: On The Edge
Dutch deep prog maestro Eelke Kleijn is featured once again in Radio Unity with his melodic and trancey prog house sound. Reminds me of the classic Sasha & Digweed prog sound of late 90s. After his 'Untold Stories' album Eelke seems to be in fine form overall.
04. Petar Dundov: Distant Shores
This stunning 12 minute track was in my 2010 Top 10. Peter Dundov's Sparkling Stars in 2009 was already epic piece of music but this... this is really SOMETHING! Bridging techno, progressive house and trance with a true hypnotic "journey" track which has been supported by variety of jocks from Sven Väth and Nick Warren to Gareth Emery. This was also my NYE gigs' highlight when played at 08am at Helsinki afterhours from a proper soundsystem to full dancefloor. True epicness but done in such a quality way without a hint of cheese.
05. Pryda: Illusions
Swedish techno house lord doesn't seem to know how to fail does he? Another guaranteed piece of uplifting Pryda big room action. This mixed with Pryda's 'Glimma' intro opened my evening NYE set and sounds pretty huge from a proper system. Prydz' tracks are also some of the loudest out there with kicking good 3-6 dB louder than anyone else. Yet they manage to feel dynamic at the same time and not just maximized and squashed like many digital files nowadays.
06. Michael Cassette: Crockett's Theme (Original Mix)
Taken from the Michael Cassette's very strong 'Temporarity' album on Anjunadeep. This Finnish duo is also known as Komytea and couple other aliases. They definitely know their 128 bpm groove and bad ass basslines. Once again their stuff is something that sounds good at home but is taken to another level with a good big room PA. The album had many highlights from which to choose from but this is the winner to me.
07. Voltaxx, Paul Thomas, Lissat & Russell G: The Real Life (Paul Thomas & Russell G Remix)
Now we take things into more pumpin' clubby groove. This is the kind of the sound Marco V has been playing a lot recently which to me is the perfect, full on, big room, groovy stuff. And once again something that sounds completely different from your "multimedia speakers" and a big club system.
08. My Digital Enemy, Mary Pearce: Release My Soul (Olav Basoski Remix)
Another Marco V powerplay which was also one of the highlights of my NYE set at Clinic. I was surprised that Olav Basoski (who is more known for his housey stuff) did a remix this hard and pumping but I'm absolutely loving it! The groove and bassline are irresistible and so intense. This stuff is also very old school yet modern at the same time. Full support!
09. Protoculture: Early Bird (Max Graham remix)
Here we see the most promosing talent of recent years in trance (=South African Protoculture) teaming up once again with a true prog legend from the 90s (=Canadian Max Graham) with yet another great result. Very nice feel good big room action going on here. Protoculture was one of the big stars of 2010 to me with a great album and so many good remixes under his belt. can't wait what he will deliver for 2011 and really hope we could see him in Finland too during this year ;)
10. Pulser: In My World
Why don't they do more trance like this? One of the best trance tracks of 2010 to me. Also one of the NYE highlights when played at 03am in Clinic. Nice combination of great chord, strong bassline and catchy plucky melody. 10/10 trance from Garuda!
11. Daft Punk: Overture
Another pick from the Daft Punk's Tron soundtrack closes the circle and brings the first Radio Unity of 2011 to an end. I guess this show was a blueprint of how I hope Radio Unity will sound like this year: mixture of deep, atmospheric & emotional prog, groovy & pumpin' big room stuff and quality 21st century trance. Hope you'll tune in next month too and thanks for listening!
FUUU~~~~ I should have booked my flight from Finland back to Berlin after New Year's Eve, so I could've gone to the Clinic NYE party in Helsinki in which Super8 &Tab and Orkidea headlined!!! (even if flight prices were much more steeper..)(and gdmit house'd sensation white.)
perjantai 17. joulukuuta 2010
Orkidea - Radio Unity 024 (15.12.10)
Orkidea: Radio Unity 024 (The special xmas chill piano trance mix)
broadcasted on 15.12.2010 on ah.fm
rating: super good! ★★★★★
I've compiled Orkidea's commentary on the tracks on this single blog post so you won't have to read the whole 23 pages of forums posts (unless you really want to). scroll down after the tracklist.
1. Rober Miles: Children (Lowland orchestral version)
2. Philip Glass Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis Five
3. Thrillseekers: Synaesthesia (Lowland orchestral version)
4. Thomas Newman: Any Other Name
5. Way Out West: Mindcircus (Lowland orchestral version)
6. Philip Glass: Truman Sleeps
7. BT: Flaming June (Lowland orchestral version)
8. Yann Tiersen: Comptine d'un autre été - L'après-midi
9. Greece 2000: Café del Mar (Lowland orchestral version)
10. Michael Nyman: The Heart Asks Pleasure First / The Promise
11. Chicane: Theme from Harry's Game (Saltwater) (Lowland orchestral version)
12. Wim Mertens: Close Cover
13. Aalto: Rush (Lowland orchestral version)
14. Cosmic Baby: Thinking About Myself
15. Binary Finary: 1998 (Lowland orchestral version)
16. Wim Mertens: Struggle for Pleasure
17. Slusnik Luna: Sun (Lowland orchestral version)
1. Rober Miles: Children (Lowland orchestral version)
Petri "Lowland" Alanko made special piano/orchestral versions for our Club Unity's 10th anniversary back in 2006. They ended up being released on Armada and if you haven't heard this amazing album I highly recommend to check it out. It's amazing to hear all these classic tracks in this form. The pure musical emotion shines through even without the beats.
2. Philip Glass: Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis Five
Philip Glass is the man we can thank for many of the musical foundations of trance music as people like Oliver Lieb and Cosmic Baby rate him as their key inspiration in early 90s with his arpeggiated piano pieces.
3. Thrillseekers: Synesthesia (Lowland orchestral version)
Another Lowland intepretation. This time remaking Thrillseekers late 90s classic Synesthesia. It's nice to see how something so simple can be so effective, emotional and deep at the same time. Timeless.
4. Thomas Newman: Any Other Name
Key piece from Thomas Newman's score for 'American Beauty' film. Mr. Newman really knows how to build simple yet so emotive and catchy pieces. And the sound of his piano is probably the softest one around.
5. Way Out West: Mindcircus
Nick Warren and Jody Wisteroff at their poppiest are getting the Lowland treatment here. The original was one of the highlights of the 'Intensify' album and even reached the UK singles chart #39. Classic.
6. Philip Glass: Truman Sleeps
Philip Glass piece which was included on the Truman Show movie. Not sure if this was actually written for the film but amazing two minutes of music never the less. Philip Glass really is one of my alltime musical heroes. Highly recommended to anyone who is into trance and classical music.
7. BT: Flaming June (Lowland orchestral version)
Listening to this together with BT during a car drive to the gig venue in Helsinki in April 2009 was a moment I will never forget. He is truly special person with AMAZING positive energy in him. And Flaming June is the finest of his many many great musical moments.
8. Yann Tiersen Comptine d'un autre été - L'après-midi
One of the key themes from the Amelie film. I used this Yann Tiersen's piece in a fashion show last year here in Finland and I've been wanting to play it in a set ever since. If you find more emotional music than this, please let me know;)
9. Three Drives: Greece 2000 (Lowland orchestral version)
Yet another Lowland version. Here is link to the full album in iTunes: Classical Trancelations by Lowland - Download Classical Trancelations on iTunes. Perfect "introduction to trance music" xmas gift to any friend/partner you want to convince of the beauty in trance music;)
10. Michael Nyman: The Heart Asks Pleasure First / The Promise
Theme music from the movie 'Piano'. Emotionally super charged music. Perhaps Michael Nyman's finest moment until today and something that will surely stand the test of the times for centuries to come. Is this trance?
11. Clannad: Theme from Harry's Game (Saltwater) (Lowland orchestral version)
Nice to see how music can travel from one piece to another and yet another, transforming from song made for TV series in 1982, being sampled by Chicane in 1999 and now re-living once again in another form by Lowland. Some people question remixing and remaking, but with examples like this I think sometimes it's all :D
12. Wim Mertens: Close Cover
I heard this one first time on one of Jose Padilla's (of Cafe del Mar Ibiza fame) legendary mix CDs and been in love ever since. And if your ever looking for good chill out CDs/mixes, Jose will always deliver. I highly recommend checking out his Mixcloud sessions. For example this is pure bliss: Jose Padilla - Ibiza Classic Sunset by Jose Padilla | Mixcloud - Re-think radio
13. Aalto: Rush (Lowland orchestral version)
Lowland's version of the Super8 & Orkidea remix of Aalto's Rush. Lowland said that the ending of this version kinda took over Brilliant stuff in it's all Hollywood hugeness.
14. Cosmic Baby: Thinking About Myself
Cosmic Baby was the person responsible for many of genre defining pieces of trance music back in 1992/1993 when he was recording on Berlin based MFS Records. Another old school name to check out and this was the title trance from his 1993 album where (IMHO) you can hear influences of Wim Mertens and Philip Glass clearly.
15. Binary Finary: 1998 (Lowland orchestral version)
16. Wim Mertens Struggle for Pleasure
Sounds familiar? The stiry behind Energy 52' Cafe del Mar was that DJ Kid Paul went to Ibiza in 1992 and heard a DJ (most likely Jose Padilla) play this piece during sunset in Cafe del Mar (a sunset bar in San Antonio in Ibiza). Kid Paul came back totally electrified, played the track to Cosmic Baby and then they made some history by writing 'Cafe del Mar'.
17. Slusnik Luna: Sun
The grand daddy of all finnish trance tracks: Slusnik Luna's 'Sun'. Niko from Slusnik Luna made first version of this and brought it to our summer Sunday club 'Sun' in Helsinki in 1999. I played it that night as encore without even listening to it first because my trust in these guys' skills is endless. But I was completely blown aways by the track. So much that we set up a label to release it. It caused major hype with everybody playing it and all the big labels wanting to sign it. It went on to UK singles chart Top 40 in August 2000 and holds a firm position as one of my alltime fave tracks.
I've compiled Orkidea's commentary on the tracks on this single blog post so you won't have to read the whole 23 pages of forums posts (unless you really want to). scroll down after the tracklist.
1. Rober Miles: Children (Lowland orchestral version)
2. Philip Glass Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis Five
3. Thrillseekers: Synaesthesia (Lowland orchestral version)
4. Thomas Newman: Any Other Name
5. Way Out West: Mindcircus (Lowland orchestral version)
6. Philip Glass: Truman Sleeps
7. BT: Flaming June (Lowland orchestral version)
8. Yann Tiersen: Comptine d'un autre été - L'après-midi
9. Greece 2000: Café del Mar (Lowland orchestral version)
10. Michael Nyman: The Heart Asks Pleasure First / The Promise
11. Chicane: Theme from Harry's Game (Saltwater) (Lowland orchestral version)
12. Wim Mertens: Close Cover
13. Aalto: Rush (Lowland orchestral version)
14. Cosmic Baby: Thinking About Myself
15. Binary Finary: 1998 (Lowland orchestral version)
16. Wim Mertens: Struggle for Pleasure
17. Slusnik Luna: Sun (Lowland orchestral version)
1. Rober Miles: Children (Lowland orchestral version)
Petri "Lowland" Alanko made special piano/orchestral versions for our Club Unity's 10th anniversary back in 2006. They ended up being released on Armada and if you haven't heard this amazing album I highly recommend to check it out. It's amazing to hear all these classic tracks in this form. The pure musical emotion shines through even without the beats.
2. Philip Glass: Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis Five
Philip Glass is the man we can thank for many of the musical foundations of trance music as people like Oliver Lieb and Cosmic Baby rate him as their key inspiration in early 90s with his arpeggiated piano pieces.
3. Thrillseekers: Synesthesia (Lowland orchestral version)
Another Lowland intepretation. This time remaking Thrillseekers late 90s classic Synesthesia. It's nice to see how something so simple can be so effective, emotional and deep at the same time. Timeless.
4. Thomas Newman: Any Other Name
Key piece from Thomas Newman's score for 'American Beauty' film. Mr. Newman really knows how to build simple yet so emotive and catchy pieces. And the sound of his piano is probably the softest one around.
5. Way Out West: Mindcircus
Nick Warren and Jody Wisteroff at their poppiest are getting the Lowland treatment here. The original was one of the highlights of the 'Intensify' album and even reached the UK singles chart #39. Classic.
6. Philip Glass: Truman Sleeps
Philip Glass piece which was included on the Truman Show movie. Not sure if this was actually written for the film but amazing two minutes of music never the less. Philip Glass really is one of my alltime musical heroes. Highly recommended to anyone who is into trance and classical music.
7. BT: Flaming June (Lowland orchestral version)
Listening to this together with BT during a car drive to the gig venue in Helsinki in April 2009 was a moment I will never forget. He is truly special person with AMAZING positive energy in him. And Flaming June is the finest of his many many great musical moments.
8. Yann Tiersen Comptine d'un autre été - L'après-midi
One of the key themes from the Amelie film. I used this Yann Tiersen's piece in a fashion show last year here in Finland and I've been wanting to play it in a set ever since. If you find more emotional music than this, please let me know;)
9. Three Drives: Greece 2000 (Lowland orchestral version)
Yet another Lowland version. Here is link to the full album in iTunes: Classical Trancelations by Lowland - Download Classical Trancelations on iTunes. Perfect "introduction to trance music" xmas gift to any friend/partner you want to convince of the beauty in trance music;)
10. Michael Nyman: The Heart Asks Pleasure First / The Promise
Theme music from the movie 'Piano'. Emotionally super charged music. Perhaps Michael Nyman's finest moment until today and something that will surely stand the test of the times for centuries to come. Is this trance?
11. Clannad: Theme from Harry's Game (Saltwater) (Lowland orchestral version)
Nice to see how music can travel from one piece to another and yet another, transforming from song made for TV series in 1982, being sampled by Chicane in 1999 and now re-living once again in another form by Lowland. Some people question remixing and remaking, but with examples like this I think sometimes it's all :D
12. Wim Mertens: Close Cover
I heard this one first time on one of Jose Padilla's (of Cafe del Mar Ibiza fame) legendary mix CDs and been in love ever since. And if your ever looking for good chill out CDs/mixes, Jose will always deliver. I highly recommend checking out his Mixcloud sessions. For example this is pure bliss: Jose Padilla - Ibiza Classic Sunset by Jose Padilla | Mixcloud - Re-think radio
13. Aalto: Rush (Lowland orchestral version)
Lowland's version of the Super8 & Orkidea remix of Aalto's Rush. Lowland said that the ending of this version kinda took over Brilliant stuff in it's all Hollywood hugeness.
14. Cosmic Baby: Thinking About Myself
Cosmic Baby was the person responsible for many of genre defining pieces of trance music back in 1992/1993 when he was recording on Berlin based MFS Records. Another old school name to check out and this was the title trance from his 1993 album where (IMHO) you can hear influences of Wim Mertens and Philip Glass clearly.
15. Binary Finary: 1998 (Lowland orchestral version)
16. Wim Mertens Struggle for Pleasure
Sounds familiar? The stiry behind Energy 52' Cafe del Mar was that DJ Kid Paul went to Ibiza in 1992 and heard a DJ (most likely Jose Padilla) play this piece during sunset in Cafe del Mar (a sunset bar in San Antonio in Ibiza). Kid Paul came back totally electrified, played the track to Cosmic Baby and then they made some history by writing 'Cafe del Mar'.
17. Slusnik Luna: Sun
The grand daddy of all finnish trance tracks: Slusnik Luna's 'Sun'. Niko from Slusnik Luna made first version of this and brought it to our summer Sunday club 'Sun' in Helsinki in 1999. I played it that night as encore without even listening to it first because my trust in these guys' skills is endless. But I was completely blown aways by the track. So much that we set up a label to release it. It caused major hype with everybody playing it and all the big labels wanting to sign it. It went on to UK singles chart Top 40 in August 2000 and holds a firm position as one of my alltime fave tracks.
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