DJ ORKIDEA is one of Finland's leading djs. He's been on  the trance tip for quite a long time but he likes to spice up his sets with house, breakbeat, acid, electro or whatever. His background lies in Oranssi's illegal  after parties back in 1992 when he was 15. At that time he was playing mostly techno with some influence from the early trance stuff. Then he and Ilmilieska-Posse, later known as Voima, started making their own afterhour clubs such as Q, Maa, Taivas (Moon, Earth and Heaven, translated respectively) during years 1993, 1994 and 1995. For larger audience DJ Orkidea became known from Elliot Ness' big raves (Atlantis, Planet of Love, Ritual) and the huge  afterhours parties held at the legendary  venue Lepakko. His sets have also been heard at such memorable clubs as Smile,  Deep, Pit and The Club.  Outside Helsinki he has been playing all over the country and outside Finland in Russia (Tunnel, Planetarium), Sweden (Turbine, Communication Festival), Estonia and Germany (famous Tresor Club in Berlin) for  example.  His set usually begins with slow  brekbeats or some progressive house and starts to get faster and pumping during the following hour or two. He has also used a live drummer and a sax player alongside himself. Gradually the party builds  to the full with harder trance tracks. During  the last hour or half the music changes to  more melodic and maybe a bit melancholic "6am in the morning stuff". Last hour  is so hot and mad that it has to be experienced...