"So Get Up" Versions and remixes of the Ithaka song,So Get Up (1992-2026)

   Lyricist, vocalist: Ithaka Darin Pappas in Athens 1991

Versions and remixes of the song "So Get Up" a literary work written and vocalized by Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas) used in songs over 4 decades

Lyrics published by Ravenshark Music/ASCAP/administered by North Music Group(USA)

1992

1. <b>Ithaka "So Get Up"</b> Acapella written in Amoeiras - Lisbon, Portugal on December 13th 1992 

Recorded later same day at Radio Comercial  [PORTUGAL] Label: None

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

1993

2. <b>Ithaka "So Get Up" 1993"</b> recorded with producer/engineer Darbis in Manchester, England late January 1993 [UK] Label: Embryo

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music: Darbis

ISRC:

3. Underground Sound of Lisbon - "So Get Up" ft. Ithaka (original mix) rerecorded in late 1993 with USL [PORTUGAL] Label: Kaos

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Dj Vibe/Rui da Silva

1994

4. Underground Sound of Lisbon – "So Get Up" ft. Ithaka – Acapella – (lyrics and vocals by: Ithaka) – Engineer: Sinewave – TRIBAL America/I.R.S.

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

<b>5. Underground Sound of Lisbon – "So Get Up – Junior's Factory Mix</b> (lyrics and vocals by: Ithaka) TRIBAL America/I.R.S.

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Junior Vasquez/Dj Vibe/Rui da Silva

6.Underground Sound of Lisbon – "So Get Up" – Factory Dub (lyrics and vocals by: Ithaka) TRIBAL America/I.R.S.

Lyrics/Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Junior Vasquez/Dj Vibe/Rui da Silva

7.Underground Sound of Lisbon – "So Get Up – ft. Ithaka Danny's "In The Light We Sleep" Mix 

[Portugal/USA/UK] Label: Tribal America/I.R.S./Kaos

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Danny Tenaglia/Dj Vibe/Rui da Silva

8.Underground Sound of Lisbon – "So Get Up  ft. Ithaka – Get-Upella Mix 

[Portugal/USA/UK] Label: Tribal America/I.R.S./Kaos

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Danny Tenaglia/Dj Vibe/Rui da Silva

9.Underground Sound of Lisbon – "So Get Up – It's 4 P.M. Danny, Get Up! Dub [Portugal/USA/UK] Label: Tribal America/I.R.S./Kaos

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Danny Tenaglia/Dj Vibe/Rui da Silva

10. Orion's Voice – "The Next Life"  [Netherlands] Re-Fuel Records

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Danny Tenaglia/Dj Vibe/Rui da Silva

11. Sarasite – "The End Of The Earth"- Jatzzup Mix [Italy] Melody Maker Records

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Sarasite

12. Sarasite – "The End Of The Earth" – Patrick P.D.jJ. Tribal Mix [Italy] Melody Maker Records

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Sarasite

13. Sarasite – "The End Of The Earth" M.C. Hair New Wave Vibrations mix [Italy] Melody Maker Records

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Sarasite

1995

14. Committee – "Trance Line" [Spain] Lost Paradise Records

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Dimas Carbajo, J.J. De La Fuente

ISRC# ESA031305712, ESA031303320, ES5770690442

14. Public Domain "So Get Up" Original Mix [Netherlands] BZRK Records

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Francois Zoontjes, Jorn Hanneman

15. Public Domain "So Get Up" Dr. Phil's Mix  [Netherlands] BZRK Records

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Francois Zoontjes, Jorn Hanneman

16. Public Domain "So Get Up" Jeremy Mix  [Netherlands] BZRK Records

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Francois Zoontjes, Jorn Hanneman

1996

17. K.S. "Felini's Circus" [Italy] Active Bass Music

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Alessandro Moschini, Andrea Prezioso, Eugenio Passalacqua

ISRC# ITC899600025

18. Tecmania Rebel "So Get Up" [Netherlands] Planet Dance Records

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Patrick van der Hart

1997

19. Next Generation - "The Earthquake" [Italy] Ipnotika Records

 Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Patrick van der Hart

ISRC# USJ3V1324969

2013

Stefano Esposito "Goodbye My Friend" [Italy] Four Fingers Hand Records 

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Stefano Esposito

ISRC# ITZQ81300075, USQY51210878

2023

DJ AniMe w/ Broken Minds "Go Insane" [Netherlands]  Cloud 9 Music / Warner

Lyrics, Vocals: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Music by: Barbara Palermo, Omar Ruiz, Rodri Bustamante

ISRC# NLFL72300315

Los tres poemas más famosos jamás escritos en Portugal

                                  Luís Vaz de Camões

<b>1. Los Lusiadas (© 1572) de Luís Vaz de Camões</b>

"Los Lusíadas" es un poema épico de Luís de Camões, publicado en 1572, que celebra los viajes de Vasco da Gama y la era de los descubrimientos portugueses. La obra, considerada la obra maestra de la literatura portuguesa, narra la expedición a la India mezclando la historia con elementos mitológicos, como la intervención de los dioses griegos. 

. . .

                                                 Fernando Pessoa

<b>"Autopsychography"(© 1932) de Fernando Pessoa</b>

El poema de Fernando Pessoa titulado originalmente en portugués "Autopsicografia" (publicado en la revista Presença, nº 36, en noviembre de 1932), es ampliamente conocido y traducido al español. 

Autopsicografía

El poeta es un fingidor.

Finge tan completamente

Que hasta finge que es dolor

El dolor que de veras siente. 

Y quienes leen lo que escribe,

Sienten, en el dolor leído,

No los dos que el poeta vive

Sino aquél que no han tenido. 

Y así va por su camino,

Distrayendo a la razón,

Ese tren sin real destino

Que se llama corazón. 

Este poema es una de las obras más célebres de Pessoa, donde explora la esencia del acto poético como un artificio o "fingimiento" que, paradójicamente, construye una verdad ficticia y universal para el lector. 

. . . 

                                 Ithaka Darin Pappas

<b>"So Get Up" (© 1992) por Ithaka Darin Pappas</b>

El fin de la tierra está sobre nosotros

The end of the earth is upon us

Muy pronto todo se convertirá en polvo

Pretty soon it'll all turn to dust

Levántate

So get up

Olvida el pasado

Forget the past

Sal afuera

Go outside

Diviértete

Have a blast

Viaja mil millas en un avión a reacción

Go a thousand miles in a jet airplane

Enloquece, vuelve loco

Go out of your mind go insane

A un lugar donde nunca has estado antes

To a place you never been before

Come helado o lamerás el piso

Eat ice cream our you'll lick the floor

Porque el fin de la tierra está sobre nosotros

'Cause, the end of the earth is upon us

Muy pronto todo se convertirá en polvo

Pretty soon it'll all turn to dust

Adiós amigos míos

Goodbye my friends

Adiós mundo

Goodbye world

Nos veremos en la próxima vida

I'll see you in the next life

Underground Sound of Lisbon (Slamdance Festival Cut)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k10K0dJ6m7w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k10K0dJ6m7w

number one songs

As of 2025 there have been more than a thousand verified remixes (with more than 60 million total downloads) of the iconic 1992 vocal-poem song "So Get Up" by Greek-Californian songwriter and visual artist, Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas).  Underground Sound of Lisbon's 1994 remix was perhaps one of the more popular versions and with its U.K. and U.S. licensing deals on Tribal Records in the early nineties, elevated exposure of the poem to a more international audiences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k10K0dJ6m7w

"Next Life" Lucky Choice ft. Ithaka (first Ukrainan remix of Ithaka's iconic "So Get Up")

In 2022, Ukrainian deep house producer Lucky Choice (aka Taras Revansh власник музичного лейблу) collaborated with Greek-Californian lyricist-vocalist Ithaka (aka Ithaka Darin Pappas) on the dynamic track "Next Life". The song, based on Ithaka's original 1992 iconic track "So Get Up" became and instant dance floor classic in Ukraine, Eastern Europe and Mumbai.

ISRC: DEH742227019

Lyrics and vocals: 

Ithaka Darin Pappas ©1992 

(ASCAP/North Music Group/Ravenshark Music)

The end of the earth is upon us

Pretty soon it'll all turn to dust

So get up

Forget the past

Go outside and have a blast

Go a thousand miles in a jet airplane

Go out of your mind, go insane

To a place you never been before

Eat ice cream or you'll lick the floor

'Cause, the end of the earth is upon us

Pretty soon it'll all turn to dust

Goodbye my friends

Goodbye world

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Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)

https://music.apple.com/ru/song/next-life/1654110699

У 2022 році український продюсер діп-хаусу Lucky Choice (він же Тарас Реванш, власник музичного лейблу) співпрацював із греко-каліфорнійським автором пісень та вокалістом Ithaka (він же Ithaka Darin Pappas) над динамічним треком "Next Life". Пісня, заснована на оригінальному культовому треку Ithaka 1992 року "So Get Up", миттєво стала класикою танцполів в Україні, Східній Європі та Мумбаї. Текст і вокал:

Ітака Дарін Паппас ©1992

(ASCAP/North Music Group/Ravenshark Music)

Кінець землі вже близько

Скоро все перетвориться на порох

Тож вставайте

Забудьте минуле

Виходьте на вулицю та насолоджуйтесь

Пролітайте тисячу миль на реактивному літаку

Збожеволійте, збожеволійте

У місце, де ви ніколи раніше не були

Їжте морозиво, або облизуєте підлогу

Бо кінець землі вже близько

Скоро все перетвориться на порох

Прощавайте, друзі

Прощавайте, світе

"Raidor Bass" a sculpture by Ithaka Darin Pappas

The Reincarnation of a Surfboard is a body of sculpture work created by Ithaka Darin Pappas. The project, which began in 1989 consist of approximately 300 wall-mounted sculptures that have been made using recycled surfboards as raw building material. The series to date has been exhibited on four continents.

Eazy E skateboarding in Venice (cover article of General Admission's 2016 Holiday Buyers Guide)

"Agora Recorded In Rio" (Público) Ithaka Darin Pappas

 

Excerpt from article by Vanessa Rato (Jornal Público, June 2004) 

It was 1982 in Los Angeles, three high school classmates in their teens were trying their hand at a minor specialty of petty crime: Dine 'n' Dash.

They started by chance. One day, after a particularly long surfing session, they ended up eating together at a Chinese buffet where, in the end, no one seemed interested in receiving the bill. Twenty minutes later, they decided to leave without paying. Unexpectedly, no one followed them.
It could have been the beginning of a spiral toward the abyss of a juvenile detention center. And indeed it was, but only for one of them. Turns out, that would be another story. The point: three weeks after the Chinese buffet, always shaking sand from their feet and with water roaring in their ears, the group was repeating the feat of eating out for free daily and with honed technique. Until, at Bob's Big Boy, they crossed paths with a girl named "Rita." On the run. It's not easy to escape a waitress who's a former long-distance runner, especially when she's the kind of woman a teenager would actually prefer to be caught by—for the one whose trail is important here, it was the end of a career in crime, but, in compensation, the beginning of a love-until-something-does-us-part story and a step toward a career in the arts.

More than two decades have passed. It's with this snapshot of memory (in the first person and with plenty of what the British would call "guillotine humor") that "Recorded in Rio" begins, the fourth album by Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)—15 tracks of old-school hip-hop with forays into soul and an all-flavor mix of electro, blues, jazz, reggae, and Latin ambiances (Brazil and also Mexico) with a soundtrack echoing spoken word. Apparently, there's nothing to hide—it's the motto "live it, write it, rap it": "The artists I admire aren't even, perhaps, the ones with the best results. I'm interested in the process, so I like people who aren't afraid to expose themselves. The average person is so afraid to show themselves that we can know them for years without really knowing who they are," says "Fish Daddy" Ithaka Darin Pappas himself.

To illustrate the idea, he doesn't give an example, he mentions a true idol: "Look at Bukowski. You might think: that's shit! But it's his shit. It's absolutely honest work. That's the most important thing." (Absolutely reliable aside: in 1996 someone gave the writer's widow the song "Umbilibus" from the album "Flowers and the Color of Paint"; she liked it so much that when she learned Ithaka was a fan, she sent him a package with several books and a precious blue shirt still covered in wine stains - he never washed it, "so as not to lose his soul" and still wears it from time to time). in Portugal. It's 9:45 a.m. in mainland Portugal, eight hours earlier in California, meaning 2:45 a.m.—late for those who wake up at 7 a.m. to catch the empty beaches and the best waves. But that's not why, on the other end of the line, Ithaka drawls and slurs his words. He speaks like this, inwardly, as if mulling over what he's saying, with a coolness tempered by West Hollywood, Korea Town, the beaches of South Bay, and basically any hidden corner of the planet that comes to mind.

The term "globe-trotter" would be a good shortcut to describe his global wanderings, if it weren't for the fact that it suits him so poorly. Because, unlike those who allow themselves to be catapulted from place to place, with self-propelled engines on the verge of implosion, Ithaka likes to linger in the places he passes through. That's how he ended up staying in Lisbon for almost six years. For those who have forgotten: he arrived in 1992 and left only in 1998. In between, he released two albums, "Flowers and the Color of Paint" (1995) and "Stellafly" (1997), considered by some to be "the most powerful and consistent" national recordings of those years. Musically, among many other collaborations, he is also the lyricist & vocalist of the highly internationalized "So Get Up". 

Track List:
0:01 - Same Room Blues
1:49 - Dine n Dash
5:39 - Who's Your Daddy?
9:14 - The Bus Song 2004 (feat. BNegão)
13:44 - Technically A Failure
18:09 - Who's The Enemy? (feat. Gabriel O Pensador)
23:16 - Work Related
26:46 - I Ride (Original Mix)
31:34 - Marta De La Vallarta
35:58 - Brother Barstow
38:46 - Like A Bottle Of Baccardi
42:50 - Muerto Escondido (feat. Thalma de Freitas)
47:44 - Stingray Shuffle
49:59 - Sleeping In The Shade
54:59 - In Portugal (feat. Thalma de Freitas)

Trecho do artigo "Agora Recorded In Rio"

Vanessa Rato (Jornal Público, Junho 2004) __________________________________________________ Estava-se em 1982. Entretanto, em Los Angeles, três colegas de liceu em plena adolescência testavam a mão numa especialidade menor do pequeno crime, o "Dine'n'Dash". Começaram por acaso. Um dia, depois de uma sessão particularmente longa de "surf", acabaram a comer juntos num "buffet" chinês onde, no fim, ninguém parecia interessado em receber a conta. Vinte minutos de espera mais tarde, a opção foi sair sem pagar. Inesperadamente, ninguém os seguiu. Poderia ter sido o princípio de uma espiral em direcção ao abismo de uma casa de correcção juvenil. E na verdade foi, mas apenas para um deles. Acontece que isso seria outra história. O que interessa: três semanas depois do "buffet" chinês, sempre a sacudir areia dos pés e com água a estalar nos ouvidos, o grupo estava a repetir a proeza de almoçar fora de graça a ritmo diário e com técnica apurada. Até que no Bob's Big Boy se cruzaram com uma rapariga chamada "Rita". em fuga. Não é fácil escapar a uma empregada de mesa que é ex-corredora de fundo, sobretudo quando ela é do tipo de mulher por quem, na verdade, um adolescente prefere mesmo deixar-se apanhar - para aquele a quem importa aqui seguir o rasto, foi o fim de uma carreira no crime, mas, em compensação, o princípio de uma história de amor-até-que-qualquer-coisa-nos-separe e um passo na direcção de um percurso nas artes. Passaram-se mais de duas décadas. É com este recorte de memória (na primeira pessoa e com muito daquilo a que os britânicos chamariam "humor de guilhotina") que arranca "Recorded in Rio", o quarto álbum do Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas) - 15 faixas de hip-hop "old school" com incursões pela soul e um "todos-sabores" electro, blues, jazz, reggae e ambiências latinas (Brasil em fantasma, mas também México) com eco de banda sonora sobre "spoken word". Aparentemente, não há nada a esconder - é o lema "live it, write it, rap it": "Os artistas que eu admiro não são sequer, se calhar, os que têm melhores resultados. Interessam-me os processos, por isso gosto de pessoas que não têm medo de se expor. A pessoa média tem tanto medo de se mostrar que a podemos conhecer durante anos sem realmente saber quem é", diz o próprio "Fish Daddy" Ithaka Darin Pappas. Para ilustrar a ideia, não dá um exemplo, faz menção a um verdadeiro ídolo: "Veja-se o Bukowski. Pode-se pensar: é uma merda! Mas é a merda dele. É um trabalho absolutamente honesto. Isso é o mais importante." (Aparte absolutamente fiável: em 1996 alguém deu a ouvir o tema "Umbilibus" de "Flowers and the Color of Paint" à viúva do escritor; ela gostou tanto que ao saber que Ithaka era um fã lhe mandou um pacote com vários livros e uma preciosa camisa azul ainda cheia de nódoas de vinho - ele nunca a lavou, "para não perder a alma" e continua a vesti-la de vez em quando). in Portugal. São 9h45 em Portugal continental, oito horas menos na California, ou seja, 2h45 - tarde para quem acorda às 7h para apanhar as praias vazias e as melhores ondas. Mas não é por isso que, do outro lado da linha, Ithaka arrasta a voz e enrola as palavras. Ele fala assim, para dentro, como quem rumina o que diz, numa "coolness" temperada entre West Hollywood, Korea Town, as praias de South Bay e, basicamente, qualquer canto recôndito do planeta que venha à memória. O termo "globe-trotter" seria um bom atalho para falar das suas deambulações mundiais, não fosse dar-se o caso de lhe ficar tão mal. É que, contrariamente àqueles que se deixam catapultar de lugar em lugar, com motor de auto-propulsão à beira da implosão, Pappas gosta de se demorar nos sítios por onde passa. Foi assim que acabou por ficar por Lisboa quase seis anos. Para os mais esquecidos: a chegada foi em 1992 e a partida só em 98, pelo meio ficaram dois álbuns, "Flowers and the Color of Paint" (1995) e "Stellafly" (97), considerado por alguns como "o mais poderoso e consistente" registo nacional desse ano. Em termos musicais, entre muitas outras colaborações, ficou ainda a letra e vocalista do internacionalizadíssimo "So Get Up" para os USL.

Excerpt from article by Vanessa Rato (Público, June 2004) 

It was 1982 in Los Angeles, three high school classmates in their teens were trying their hand at a minor specialty of petty crime: Dine 'n' Dash.

They started by chance. One day, after a particularly long surfing session, they ended up eating together at a Chinese buffet where, in the end, no one seemed interested in receiving the bill. Twenty minutes later, they decided to leave without paying. Unexpectedly, no one followed them.
It could have been the beginning of a spiral toward the abyss of a juvenile detention center. And indeed it was, but only for one of them. Turns out, that would be another story. The point: three weeks after the Chinese buffet, always shaking sand from their feet and with water roaring in their ears, the group was repeating the feat of eating out for free daily and with honed technique. Until, at Bob's Big Boy, they crossed paths with a girl named "Rita." On the run. It's not easy to escape a waitress who's a former long-distance runner, especially when she's the kind of woman a teenager would actually prefer to be caught by—for the one whose trail is important here, it was the end of a career in crime, but, in compensation, the beginning of a love-until-something-does-us-part story and a step toward a career in the arts.

More than two decades have passed. It's with this snapshot of memory (in the first person and with plenty of what the British would call "guillotine humor") that "Recorded in Rio" begins, the fourth album by Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)—15 tracks of old-school hip-hop with forays into soul and an all-flavor mix of electro, blues, jazz, reggae, and Latin ambiances (Brazil and also Mexico) with a soundtrack echoing spoken word. Apparently, there's nothing to hide—it's the motto "live it, write it, rap it": "The artists I admire aren't even, perhaps, the ones with the best results. I'm interested in the process, so I like people who aren't afraid to expose themselves. The average person is so afraid to show themselves that we can know them for years without really knowing who they are," says "Fish Daddy" Ithaka Darin Pappas himself.

To illustrate the idea, he doesn't give an example, he mentions a true idol: "Look at Bukowski. You might think: that's shit! But it's his shit. It's absolutely honest work. That's the most important thing." (Absolutely reliable aside: in 1996 someone gave the writer's widow the song "Umbilibus" from the album "Flowers and the Color of Paint"; she liked it so much that when she learned Ithaka was a fan, she sent him a package with several books and a precious blue shirt still covered in wine stains - he never washed it, "so as not to lose his soul" and still wears it from time to time). in Portugal. It's 9:45 a.m. in mainland Portugal, eight hours earlier in California, meaning 2:45 a.m.—late for those who wake up at 7 a.m. to catch the empty beaches and the best waves. But that's not why, on the other end of the line, Ithaka drawls and slurs his words. He speaks like this, inwardly, as if mulling over what he's saying, with a coolness tempered by West Hollywood, Korea Town, the beaches of South Bay, and basically any hidden corner of the planet that comes to mind.

The term "globe-trotter" would be a good shortcut to describe his global wanderings, if it weren't for the fact that it suits him so poorly. Because, unlike those who allow themselves to be catapulted from place to place, with self-propelled engines on the verge of implosion, Ithaka likes to linger in the places he passes through. That's how he ended up staying in Lisbon for almost six years. For those who have forgotten: he arrived in 1992 and left only in 1998. In between, he released two albums, "Flowers and the Color of Paint" (1995) and "Stellafly" (1997), considered by some to be "the most powerful and consistent" national recordings of those years. Musically, among many other collaborations, he is also the lyricist & vocalist of the highly internationalized "So Get Up". 

Levi's 501 "Anthems" commercial directed by David Fincher, featuring Ithaka Darin Pappas

 A young man seated on the rooftop of a skyscraper rooftop in downtown Los Angeles pensively launches a paper airplane into the sunset. Director David Fincher. Starring: Ithaka Darin Pappas

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37748224/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_t_39

"So Get Up" by Ithaka Darin Pappas is the most remixed acapella in the history of music!

The end of the earth is upon us

Pretty soon it'll all turn to dust

So get up

Forget the past

Go outside

Have a blast

Go a thousand miles in a jet airplane

Go out of your mind go insane

To a place you never been before

Eat ice cream our you'll lick the floor

'cause, the end of the earth is upon us

Pretty soon it'll all turn to dust

Goodbye my friends

Goodbye world

I'll see you in the next life

℗© Ithaka Darin Pappas 1992

Published by: Ravenshark Music/ASCAP/North Music Group

https://open.spotify.com/track/6e9rM3yTOZ2LoPja0FAkkN

https://www.amazon.com/So-Get-Ithaka-Darin-Pappas/dp/B0BMSN6PQH

So Get Up, a lyric poem by Greek-Californian interdisciplinary artist and songwriter, Ithaka (or Ithaka Darin Pappas), was written on December 13th 1992 on a cafe napkin in the Amoreiras neighborhood of Lisbon, Portugal (where he worked and resided from 1992-1998). At the time, Ithaka had been guest hosting segments of "4º Bairro" on the national station Rádio Comercial during which he would often read his own short stories and poems. Having arrived to the station that day with little or no material to recite, Ithaka wrote So Get Up and a couple of short prose pieces at a coffeeshop on the side of the station's studio, just prior to going on air. A few months later, Ithaka recorded an electro musical version of So Get Up and other songs with a production team in Manchester, England released by Embryo Entertainment with little public attention.

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Information about the iconic 1992 vocal acapella song by Greek-American songwriter and interdisciplinary artist Ithaka Darin Pappas (Ithaka). As of 2025, this example of lyrical mastery has been remixed over 800 times. In 1994, a hit remix was made by an acid house project from Underground Sound of Lisbon (DJ Vibe, Rui da Silva) and presented as a 100% Portuguese project with absolutely no mention of its creator Ithaka...now considered one of the biggest musical coverups since Milli Vanilli.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Get_Up

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Get_Up