"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

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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.

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ithaka "Muerto Escondido"

"Muerto Escondido" is a 2004 bilingual, travel-oriented hip hop story-song by Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas).

Lyrically the song was inspired by and written during a voyage to Mexico and is a dark portrayal of a seaside surfing village that is overrun with narcotics, ghosts and monsters, "where men walk on water and zombies walk the streets". 

Ithaka later pre-produced the instrumental base in Los Angeles. Final recordings were completed at Estúdio Monoaural in Rio de Janeiro including Ithaka's English language verses, the Spanish choruses hauntingly vocalized by Latin Grammy-nominated Brazilian singer and actress Thalma de Freitas and the tribalesque percussion, Pepe Cisneros.

Lyrics: Ithaka Darin Pappas ©2004

I know a place that's hot most the time, a spliff cost a quarter, a beer cost a dime. I've roamed the globe, Nairobi to Kyoto But my favorite ghetto is in the depths of Mexico. Paradise is where you make it, but this ain't for the weak, where men walk on water and zombies walk the streets The water's blue, sand black, skin brown, near a little ghost town that never shuts down. Beauty all around for miles, but there's darkness in their smiles....there's darkness in their smiles. Muerto Escondido, su alma está en peligro. La verdad será revelada en muerto escondido. Muerto's got swells that'll kick yo' ass, sprain yo' ankles or leave 'em casts. There's tropical rain to wash away the pain, but ain't nothing to keep you from going insane. Jacking straight up with a chip on her shoulder one-woman army, million-gallon liquid soldier. Muerto Escondido, not for the weak, where men walk on water and zombies walk the streets. Ants the size of roaches and roaches the size of mice. Scorpions in your shoes and beds full of lice. Inside, frogs and 'squitos in the shower. Outside, guns, knives and murder. When a house gets robbed, I mean the house itself. They kick your sorry butt out and move it someplace else. It's no man's land, It's no thugs land It's no one's land, e' loco-land. Muerto Escondido, su alma está en peligro. La verdad será revelada en Muerto Escondido. Suicide and homicide with dead dogs by the roadside .The river runs with blood the sixth of the month, coinciding with the local eclipse of the sun. Took 'shrooms at dawn and thought I saw god, (he) told me to drink more tequila, stop drinking so much rum. Went to a party at that house up on the hill, with lizards on the walls and ghosts in the halls. Sat down to a plate of fish head stew, sucking on an eyeball, I'd been trying to chew. Saw ants moving bread across the floor, through the dining room, the kitchen and out the door They didn't even wait 'til we got to desert, but neither did the skeezer with me trying to flirt. She said, "I'm from Italy, but I've lived here ten years. Now I have two husbands and I have six kids." Her mouth was melting as she tried to speak. Said, "Caro Ithaka, let me give you a treat." She started unzipping, but I was not with it, had a chancre the size of a quarter on the outside of her lippage. Left the room, left the house. But that ghost in the hall followed me out. He said, "You can run, but you cannot hide from that little dark lie you call your life. Won't you come back in and stay awhile, drink some blood with Tequila, Escondido style." Muerto Escondido, not for the weak, where men walk on water and zombies walk the streets. Muerto Escondido, su alma está en peligro. La verdad será revelada en Muerto Escondido. Muerto Escondido, not for the weak, where men walk on water and zombies walk the streets. Muerto Escondido, su alma está en peligro. La verdad será revelada en Muerto Escondido.

List of Books by Ithaka Darin Pappas (writer, artist, photographer)

  

(source Wikipedia Wikipedia)

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

Short Stories

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  Oxygen Falls (series: Ravenshark Chronicles)^[1]
  • Pappayannis Publishing, 1992 / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2023 / ISBN 979-8373886840
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• Stellafly (series: Curson Avenue Archives)^[2][3]
  • Lava Publishing, 1992 / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2023 / ISBN 979-8394037696
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• Zé dos Cães (José of the Dogs) (series: Ravenshark Chronicles)^[4][5]
• Independent Surf Publishing, 1993 / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2022 / ISBN 979-8371652379

• Charles Didn’t Surf (series: Peace, Love & Portugal)^[6]
  • Blue Water Publishing, 2005 / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2024 / ISBN 979-8876199645
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• Miracle at Malibu (series: Ravenshark Chronicles)^[7]
  • Blue Water Publishing, 2004 / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2022 / ISBN 979-8373124218
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• Moments of Insanty: Part One (series: Ravenshark Chronicles)^[8][9]
  • Blue Water Publishing, 2005 / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2022 / ISBN 979-8376066768
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• The Forgotten Four (series: Ravenshark Chronicles)^[10]
  • Blue Water Publishing, 2005 / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2022 / ISBN 979-8385759729
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• Moema (series: Ravenshark Chronicles)^[11]
• Blue Water Publishing, 2005 / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2022 / ISBN 979-8385759729
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• Sleepdriver
  • Pappayannis Publishing, 1991 / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2024 / ISBN 979-8335308830
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• So Get Up
  • Pappayannis Publishing, 1992 / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2022 / ISBN 979-8359864343
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Art & Photography Books

• Beyond South Central: Rap legends N.W.A. as seen thru the lens of Ithaka Darin Pappas (1988-1990)
  • Pappayannis Publishing, 1990 / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2025 / ISBN 979-8308932079
• Mini Ith
  • Pappayannis Publishing, 1991 / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2024 / ISBN 979-8304560672
• Umbilicus: Belly-buttons of Tokyo
  • Déjà Vu Press, Tokyo, 1992. / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2024 / ISBN 979-8304560672
• Murakami Yawns at Mars
  • Pappayannis Publishing 1992, / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2025 / ISBN 979-8314171523
• Aliens of AkahtiLândia
  • Coffin Alley Press, 2015 / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2024. ISBN 979-8336585254
• Sun Temple Sojourn: (Peru Through the Lens of Ithaka Darin Pappas) (series: Saltwater Nomad)
  • Coffin Alley Press , 2010 / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2024 / ISBN 979-8344506180
• Rangamala: रंगमाळ (series: Saltwater Nomad)
  • Sweatlodge Publishing, 2024 / ISBN 979-8300303730
• Chiapas Heart Expedition (series: Saltwater Nomad)
  • Axolotl Grupo Editoral, Mexico, 2023 / Sweatlodge Publishing, 2024 / ISBN 979-8300303730

Collective Literary Book Appearances

• Surfer – Volume 41 – Issues 7-12
  • University of California /Surfer Publications, California, 2000
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Collective Photography/Art Book Appearances

• Elle - Volume 5, Issues 2-4
  • Elle Publishing Company, New York, 1989
• Glamour - Volume 87, Issues 4-6
  • Condé Nast, New York, 1989
• Ler – Issues 21-24
  • CÍRCULO DE LECTORES, S.A.U, Lisbon 1993
• Vibe - Volume 3, Issues 5-10
  • Time Pub Ventures INC, 1995
• Speak – Issues 1-4
  • Speak Publishing, San Francisco, 1995
• The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson by Lewis Blackwell
  • Laurence King Publishing, London, 2000 / ISBN 978-1856692168
• Get In The Game by Sarah Jane Bryan
  • Golden Books / Mattel, Los Angeles / ISBN 978-0307107725
• Rolling Stone: The Decades of Rock & Roll
  • Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2001 / ISBN 978-0811829786
• Belong by Jennifer Morton
  • Insomniac Press, Toronto, 2009 / ISBN 978-1897415702
• Hip Hop Raised Me by DJ Semtex
  • Thames & Hudson, London 2016 / ISBN 978-0525573883
• Stop, Think, Go, Do by Steven Heller
  • Rockport Publishers, Massachusetts, 2012 / ISBN 978-1610583893
• Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop by Vikki Tobak
  • Random House / Clarkson Potter, 2018 / ISBN 978-0525573883
• Approximate Gestures by Anthony Stewart
  • Louisiana State University Press, 2020 / ISBN 978-0807173848
• Barbie:The Nutcracker by Mattel
• Golden Books / Mattel, Los Angeles / ISBN 978-0807173848

• Ice Cold: A Hip-hop Jewelry History by Vikki Tobak
• Taschen, 2022 / ISBN 978-3836584975

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Forget the past, go outside, have a blast are words that, at one point in the 90s, had as much impact around the world as Timothy Leary's famous expression: Turn on, tune in, drop out.

Ithaka Darin Pappas photographed by Dede Fedrizzi (São Paulo, Brazil)

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Forget the past, go outside, have a blast são palavras que, a dada altura durante os anos 90, tiveram tanto impacto pelo mundo quanto a famosa expressão de Timothy Leary: Turn on, tune in, drop out. O seu autor é o norte-americano Ithaka Darin Pappas

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Forget the past, go outside, have a blast are words that, at one point in the 90s, had as much impact around the world as Timothy Leary's famous expression: Turn on, tune in, drop out. Its author is the American Ithaka Darin Pappas. The song was called 'So Get Up' and became, at that time, a true anthem for dance music fans. 

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