DJ Orcidia

For DJ Orcidia, that moment came during the late 1980s in Belgium, when a new wave of electronic music was reshaping the cultural landscape. Raised on the rock and pop anthems of the decade — Queen, ABBA, U2 — he was not prepared for what he heard. The cold, mechanical pulse of Front 242 and the raw, almost accidental energy of the New Beat scene hit him like a revelation. Belgium was doing something that existed nowhere else in the world, and he knew immediately that this was his world.

He was 14 years old.

From fifteen he was piecing together his first productions — for the pleasure of hearing how they turned out, with no thought of ever releasing them. It was not an ambition on hold: the idea simply never came up.

The music kept building in the background.

It all started with a website. Long before he thought about producing, DJ Orcidia had built one to write about Trance — and not only Trance — and above all to put forward the artists he was listening to. He wrote to them himself, one by one, offering them a place on it: Daniel Wanrooy, Alex M.O.R.P.H., Mike Saint-Jules. The e-mails turned into conversations, and the conversations, very quickly, into real friendships.

The web radio was born there, on that same site: Orcidia Music Beats. Then came the Orcidia Radio Show, which he hosted for over a decade across various stations — a long-form weekly journey through Trance that became his signature and his ground. Each year, Orcidia Halloween Day, a special dark Trance edition with guest artists including Mike Saint-Jules and Daniel Wanrooy. Radio was not a side project: it was where he built real relationships, track by track, show by show. The Orcidia Radio Show has since given way to Trance Generation X.

The circle widened at Trance events across Europe, where he met other respected names of the scene — among them RAM. Not industry contacts. Real friendships, built on shared passion and mutual respect for the music. That generosity of spirit — always with his heart on his sleeve, always ready to support, advise and open doors — became one of his defining qualities. He mentored young labels, offered creative direction, and gave honest feedback when others wouldn’t. In a scene that can sometimes feel like a closed circle, DJ Orcidia was always the one holding the door open.

Then in February 2026, his collaboration “Ave Maria” with Eximinds took everything further — supported by Andrew Rayel, featured on Juno Recommends Trance and crowned #1 best-selling track of 2026. Two signature tracks. Two different directions. A producer finding his range fast.

He opened the door to the next generation. He invited rising Trance artists — D.A.R.E, JARRHEAD, Dan Weathers and STIF’S — to remix the track, offering them a platform and a place inside the story he was building. Not as a business move. As a gesture. A passing of the torch — even if, as he puts it with a laugh, he’s not retiring anytime soon.

Those remixes became part of Another World, his debut album — limited to 300 hand-signed CD copies.

A DJ Orcidia set is not background music. It is a deliberate arc — starting with intent, building with precision, and finishing at full force. Every track selection serves the journey. Every transition is a choice. The goal is simple and uncompromising: to give the audience a moment they don’t forget.

His sets are not a repertoire: they are built on what is coming out. On radio the climb is held from end to end and closes on a track or two that hit harder. In a club the freedom is wider — his own productions mixed with the releases of the moment, leaving aside those of the artists playing that same night.

With over three decades of accumulated musical instinct, DJ Orcidia reads a room the way only experience allows. In Trance, where you sit in a night is not decided by name recognition alone — it is decided by what you play. His sets run from Uplifting to Tech-Trance, and on into Hard-Trance and Hard Techno: peak-time music, built for the moment a room tips over. Not an opening slot. The peak of the night.

At 51, DJ Orcidia is not thinking about legacy. He’s thinking about the next show. Clubs. Festivals. New music. The same fire that started with a Belgian beat in 1989 still burns — and it’s only getting louder.