The story behind "Unity" with Orkidea | Muzikxpress 078

[@deepcloudsmusic]

Thank you Twan this is unbelievable! Muzikxpress is my favorite series on RUclips and Orkidea is in my opinion the best dj in the world so

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you so much for the nice words!!!

[@Tattieyy]

This track literally change my world. I bought a double mix CD of Sensation White in 2002, and I just kept listening to this track over and over again, in tears. How could it happen that I discovered this beauty so late. Yet, it was right in time after I had a huge car crash. This track gave me the strength to get up from the wheelchair and start moving. Thank you Tapio. 🙏 Forever. Thank you Twan for all those documentation.

[@muzikxpress]

🙌🏻

[@Carl-vq6ww]

Oakenfold opened his Homelands 99 set with this aswell. Winchester, UK . What an incredible track, Great interview.

[@muzikxpress]

@@Carl-vq6ww Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! BTW there will be an Oakenfold interview on Muzikxpress soon 😉

[@Carl-vq6ww]

@@muzikxpress Yes Twan, absolute legend, watching for years. Great work bud 👍.

[@muzikxpress]

@@Carl-vq6ww 🙌🏻

[@kaippa]

Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮

[@muzikxpress]

👋🏻

[@Nerdamania]

Slusnik Luna is epic.. Maybe some day more will come.. Great interview again.

[@muzikxpress]

They are for sure! And thank you!

[@THERARECYCLE]

The power of Sasha..this sounded so good on Dave seaman Renaissance mix.Respect to Orkidea

[@elstonhamblin4654]

I absolutely love his creativity he can turn any tune into a wonderful production or remix he is a genius and thank you so much for the interviews of the subjects are so fascinating when they reveal about a particular song.

[@muzikxpress]

Thanks Elston, glad you enjoyed the interview! On my Facebook / IG / Twitter you can see what interviews are lined up for the Amsterdam Dance Event btw ;-)

[@DJBaldPaul]

Fantastic interview, I wish Tapio and Rich would release the Pure mixes of Unity and Seven Cities on vinyl, maybe I should get a double A side pressed? 😉

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you! And I think they should do that as well! Good idea!

[@RoadRunner1980]

Great interview. Orkidea still going strong today! Love his sound.

[@erictenbensel6590]

Such a gentle soul

[@Yngin]

Hey Twan! I've been loving these videos about all the good old classics and the story behind them.
I know it's a stretch, but could you try to get an interview with Benno and Piet, and ask them about their all-time classic anthem "Airwave", how Rank 1 started and a bit about their other projects? They are my favorite trance act, would love to see the story behind some of their tracks!

[@muzikxpress]

Yngin thanks so much! And I already emailed Benno a while ago about it, but no reply yet. Fingers crossed, would love to do a story about “Airwave” for sure!

[@Saalome84Blue]

...I only own his album Harmonia, but what an album it is - TRANCE HEAVEN :-) Thank you for interview...

[@muzikxpress]

Oh yes, beautiful album for sure! And thank you for your comment, hope you liked it!!

[@ZachGWatterson]

Strange the song never got a commercial release, kinda shows how precious the track is

[@biosgl]

Those are so fun to watch. Great job as always!

[@muzikxpress]

Biofreak12 thank you!!

[@fezmania5078]

Another fantastic interview with yet another legend of the scene. Thanks for bringing this to us. It was good to know the backstory of Unity's release. It's a big classic and belongs in the top tier of class trance tunes.

[@muzikxpress]

Thanks so much Hersh! Was very happy Tapio wanted to talk about this one, such an iconic track!

[@magyar77]

What a top bloke😉

[@muzikxpress]

Yes he is!! :)

[@aurelf3158]

Thank you !Great interview with a father of trance music .

[@kuoppa2559]

Orkidea is The top Trance chief and Pioneer of skandinavia and beyond.

[@muzikxpress]

Yes he is!

[@Jouni-V]

Why I discover this now...better late than ever. 🇫🇮💎 Hyvää syntymäpäivää mestariteoksen luojalle! 🙏

[@emphatic001]

Very interesting interview, good job, Twan!

[@muzikxpress]

emphatic001 thanks so much!!!

[@Triadii]

I love this channel because this is where most of my favorite producers are documented

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you so much! Much more to come in 2020 ;-)

[@DJMehrdad2001]

Wow thank you so much for this wonderful interview. I absolutely love Orkidea and Unity is one of the greatest trance tracks ever produced. Everything he touches turns out to be gold, and I think he is one of the best remixers in the world. I always wanted to know the story behind Unity so thanks again. By the way I think he should mix every Pure Trance compilation because the first one was fantastic, or maybe every In search of sunrise compilation? I would love it 🙏 ❤️

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you so much! Big fan of his work and he’s a great guy as well!

[@Camwin]

Love it, Unity is one of my favs so was happy when i found out you were interviewing him.
He seems so kind. Thanks a lot Twan

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you Cam! And yes, he is kind and super down to earth for sure! :)

[@kimm3757]

Thanks again for another great interview :)

[@muzikxpress]

Thanks for the support as always Kim!

[@dianahaajanen830]

Thanks👍! As always super.

[@dianahaajanen830]

I'm still watching video.

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you Diana!

[@SynthesizerSauce]

First finnish (actual) trance track on vinyl is from 1994, LUMI002
Phosphore Phlakep

[@MissDolcenGabbana]

truly one of the best trance tracks that moves your soul ❣️✨, thanks for all your work Twan :)

[@muzikxpress]

GuillenTovar yeah, such a beauty isn’t it? Tomorrow I’ll announce the people I did interview during this week’s Amsterdam Dance Event, also a legendary (trance) producer who’s responsible for many great tracks / classics.

[@MissDolcenGabbana]

muzikxpress i just saw the BT trailer... wow thank you for all the work you do. i love hearing the stories of every one you interview 👍🏽

[@muzikxpress]

GuillenTovar thank you, very excited about the BT interview, since I’m a huge fan myself as well hehe

[@yvez-zparkz]

Great interview, thanks! He seems like a very humble, almost unadmitting of his success, person. I would have liked it if you followed up your question regarding his memory on playing Unity for the first time, with how that felt, and if he understood then already how big this track could be....would have been super curious to hear that. Other than that, class interview, well done and thank you!

[@muzikxpress]

yveZ Thank you! And there was only like 20 minutes time for the interview, since straight after this he had to leave to the venue to start his set. And there were a few other subjects I really wanted to ask him about! 😉 Unfortunately time is usually limited when I do interviews with people that just fly in and out for shows FYI. Glad you enjoyed the interview!

[@kostasgkiourkas2028]

Great interviews man keep up the great work! But there is someone you should definatelly interview and his name is Dennis Waakop. After all he produced all of Tiestos hits back in the day so it would be amazing if you did an interview with him!

[@muzikxpress]

Kostas Gkiourkas thank you! I did contact him a long time ago already but unfortunately he said no :(

[@Luxylux]

Great job ! It would be cool if possible of course to ask Dj Sasha to tell the story behind xpander ^^

[@muzikxpress]

Luxylux thank you so much! And Charlie May is the real brain behind “Xpander”, don’t think Sasha would be able to tell all details about the production etc tbh 😉

[@otpornik]

thank you

[@NathanPatton]

E-mu SHAKU_HACHI_S3 shifted up two whole steps :)

[@JDCooper95]

Thank you very much Twan for such a great interview! Appreciate your work! As always I discovered a lot of new things! Keep it up!

[@muzikxpress]

Thanks so much Artem, glad you enjoyed this one!

[@Shiva4815162342]

Massive trance classic!!!
But Finland is not a part of Scandinavia!!! But we still love the Finns.
Love from Norway ❤️

[@frederikalbrecht6091]

Bedankt Twan!!

[@marklewis35]

Great stuff as usual !!

[@muzikxpress]

Thanks Mark!!

[@jcivic9499]

Love the show!!! Any possibility of Van Bellen---Let me take you

[@muzikxpress]

Thanks so much! For now I don't really do requests, sorry! I have a lot of people on my wish list still and due to COVID a lot of interviews got (or are still to be) rescheduled because of gigs that didn't happen. I want to make sure I am recording all of those first before I'm gonna work on new interviews. I just posted a loooong explanation in the "community" section btw :) Thanks for your understanding!

[@MaximumEfficiency]

reminds be a bit of Unity without words from Scooter

[@trancextend]

Orkidea will be releasing a new Progressive compilation album. The preview is available at Pure Trance. Enjoy 😉 ✌🏽

[@muzikxpress]

It’s out already! My copy should arrive tomorrow, can’t wait!

[@low3freq]

DARUDE next? :o
Better still JS16!
Two other Finnish acts you could consider are Miikka Leinonen (Shadow Hearts / Kingdom Fall) and Sami Saari (Cherish) even though all tracks quoted are top notch productions I don't think they are well known enough to warrant a long interviews.
And both Super8 (Alba / Dawn / Cre8) and DJ Tab (Won't Sleep Tonight w/Super8 etc) are another couple from FI. Plus already mentioned Slusnik Luna (Sun) who can't forget that and I discovered the old AMbassador mix recently, so hot!
Just suggestions, not requests as I feel cheeky asking of you anymore :p

[@muzikxpress]

Iow3freq music I spoke to Ville / Darude already and the next time he is in The Netherlands we will try to make this happen. Since I don’t have a travel budget for these vlogs and since the other guys you did mention, don’t really perform in NL, I don’t really see this happen tbh. (Besides Super8 & Tab of course, they are on my wish list too actually!)

[@low3freq]

@@muzikxpress Good to hear that. Yes it's 20 years since sandstorm was released at least in Finland so perfect timing.

[@muzikxpress]

Iow3freq music yeah let’s hope Ville is back in the Netherlands soon, fingers crossed!!

[@atlantisairwaves2]

i hope that someday is gonna release the Original Mix again, and not the version from Taika.. that one was brickwalled to death... whoever mastered that should be shot.

[@tredfxman]

And thats why its cheaper/better to get Ozone & belive in your own ears.. 👍

[@roverrr23]

Interesting interview, in regards of the Vocal sample I was curious from which country it is?

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you! And the sample comes from a Dead Can Dance track and they are from Australia, if that is what you mean?

[@roverrr23]

muzikxpress Yes, okay so Australian vocal.

[@Esoteric-maiden]

@@roverrr23 I'm sure you're aware but I believe its from Lisa Gerrard. She also worked with Hans Zimmer Now we are free

[@FrankHarwald]

Damn, I swear I have at least half a dozen of sketched trance tunes that I just can't release because I just can't clear the samples & I'm a hobbyist with no music industry experience.

[@deejaymra]

[@stefano_calvax_calvani]

Please make the story behing LI KWAN - POINT ZERO

[@muzikxpress]

I already did 😉 And actually even on the same day as I did this interview with Orkidea 😂
ruclips.net/video/6pl68sO_bcA/видео.html
Enjoy!

[@kanervatie]

Those vinyls are very expensive.

[@muzikxpress]

Hehe true, I'm glad I managed to get one :)

[@rocko44444444]

I cann't remember, what's the name of the track around 15 mins?

[@muzikxpress]

Orkidea - Metta

[@rocko44444444]

@@muzikxpress Thank you! :)

[@rocko44444444]

0:52 "This year exactly 20 years ago since Orkidea's trance classic unity came out, so a good reason to sit down with him and to ask him about the story behind this track and more."
What's the story with Andy? :DDD

[@muzikxpress]

rocko44444444 Andy? And what story? This is about “Unity”.

[@rocko44444444]

@@muzikxpress Andy Moor. :DD

[@muzikxpress]

rocko44444444 But he wasn’t involved with “Unity”, hence we don’t talk about him in the vlog regarding this track.

[@rocko44444444]

@@muzikxpress I know Twan, this is a joke. :) Just playing around with the word more/Moor.

[@doncarloancelotti2256]

Orkidea deadass looks like Andriy Shevchenko haha