In 2013, twenty years after it was first written and recorded, trance legend Armin Van Buuren re-introduced Ithaka's iconic EDM vocal poem So Get Up (The End Of The Earth) to a new generation by playing a version by Cosmic Gate on his popular global A State Of Trance radio program and featuring it on his mix album A State Of Trance 2013 (Armada Records).
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| Ithaka Darin Pappas: writer vocalist of the apocalyptic, So Get Up |
In March of 1993, a demo version of So Get Up was recorded in Manchester, United
Kingdom with producer S. Bradshaw. And later, in February of 1994,
Ithaka was invited to rerecord the poem for the B-Side of the first
vinyl release of Underground Sound Of Lisbon on Kaos Records, Portugal.
It was an almost instant national hit and soon released (along with an
acapella version) internationally by Tribal (USA), a subsidiary of
Stuart Copeland's IRS Records in New York.
Interestingly,
although the poem was written and vocalized by Ithaka a year before ever
meeting Underground Sound Of Lisbon, no public vocal credit was
included on those first releases.
The USL version and the new
remixes by Junior Vazquez and Danny Tenaglia were quite popular
themselves (selling at least 50,000 units) but because an acapella was
included in these major distributions, literally hundreds of new mixes
appeared in just a few years. Many producers simply changed the title
(sometimes not) and put the entire vocal on their own instrumentals and
called it their own.
The vocal acapella has also been released
under the titles; "Get Up", "Get Up Go Insane", "So Get Up Atom Bride",
"The End Of the Earth", "Next Life", "See You In The Next Life",
"Intro", "Headcharge" and "Hardventure"
The vocal itself has
never had a sonic style specifically associated with it, it has kept
changing it's clothes and modernizing itself with the times.
The
spoken-word acapella was originally read on-air on top of an
instrumental version of a Naughty-By-Nature hip hop song, and this UK
demo version is a mid-tempo electro-style track,. The vocal never had a
sonic style specifically associated with it,
it has kept changing it's clothes and modernizing itself with the times.
The USL, Tenaglia and Junior Vazquez versions were progressive and tribal house
And
since then have versions have appeared in almost every avenue of global
electronic music such as; Trance, Dubstep, Drum & Bass, Big Beat,
Trip Hop, Tech House, Electronic Art Rock etc.
Groups, producers
and DJs that have released So Get Up inculude; Derek Marin, Peter
Bailey, Pagano, Ben Gold, Eric Kupper, Cosmic Gate, Armin Van Buuren,
Ricardo Diaz, Nixu Zsun, Oxia (France), Mert Yucel (Turkey), Igor Carmo
(Portugal), Miss Kittin (Germay), Public Domain (Holland), Fat Boy Slim
(Norman Cook) UK, Stretch & Verne (UK), Lexington Avenue, Damage
People, Mirabeau, Ma-Beckerfield, FuturePlays (from Mexico), Dj Screw
(Thailand), Djz Rom (Cambodia), Technoboy (Italy), Frankyeffe (Italy),
Maik Ibane, Murt Yucel (Turkey), Mowree (Italy), Razat (Portugal),
Tuneboy (Italy), K-Traxx (Italy), Dylan Hilsley (UK), DJ Vibe, Cee Cee
Lee (Italy), Alex Di Stefano, etc etc etc.
As of 2016, with a
staggering 1129 documented and released mixes, So Get Up is considered
"The Most Remixed Vocal Acapella In Musical History" by the Guinness
World Records.
"So Get Up" © 1993 Ithaka Darin Pappas
Published by Ravenshark Music/Scion Four Music (NY)/ASCAP
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