"So Get Up" original 1992 vocal now on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/5ybhmTGnnMT3GF0TN4qutc The end of the earth is upon us Pretty soon it will all turn to dust So get up! And forget the past... Go outside and have a blast. The end of the earth is upon us Pretty soon it will all turn to dust Go a thousand miles in a jet airplane Go out of your mind go insane! To a place that you've never been before Eat ice cream or you'll lick the floor Because... The end of the earth is upon us Pretty soon it will all turn to dust Goodbye my friends Goodbye world I'll see you in the next life The end of the hearth is upon us Pretty soon it will all turn to dust So get up! And forget the past... Go outside and have a blast. The end of the earth is upon us Pretty soon it will all turn to dust Go a thousand miles in a jet airplane Go out of your mind go insane! To a place that you've never been before Eat ice cream or you'll lick the floor Because... The end of the earth is upon us Pretty soon it will all turn to dust Goodbye my friends Goodbye world I'll see you in the next life vocals/lyrics by: Ithaka Darin Pappas ©1992

Ithaka "Get Up I'm Free" (produced by Siba Giba) Official Video

https://music.apple.com/us/album/get-up-im-free-produced-by-siba-giba-single/1616171590 ithaka "GET UP I'M FREE" (produced by Siba Giba) Original Mix Lyrics & Vocals by: Ithaka Darin Pappas (Ravenshark Music/ASCAP/North Music Group) Music & Production by Siba Giba (laVibe Music/ASCAP) Released by Sweatlodge Records / Overtime Records ©℗ 2022 ISRC: QZES82220539 The end of the earth is upon us. Pretty soon it'll all turn to dust. Go a thousand miles in a jet airplane. Go out of your mind, go insane. Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up

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#HIPHOP #SIBAGIBA #ITHAKA

[Video] Ithaka "GET UP I'M FREE" (produced by Siba Giba)

https://music.apple.com/us/album/get-up-im-free-produced-by-siba-giba-single/1616171590 ithaka "GET UP I'M FREE" (produced by Siba Giba) Original Mix

Lyrics & Vocals by: Ithaka Darin Pappas (Ravenshark Music/ASCAP/North Music Group) Music & Production by Siba Giba (laVibe Music/ASCAP) Released by Sweatlodge Records / Overtime Records ©℗ 2022 ISRC: QZES82220539 The end of the earth is upon us. Pretty soon it'll all turn to dust. Go a thousand miles in a jet airplane. Go out of your mind, go insane. Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up #HIPHOP #GOLDENAGEHIPHOP#HIPHOPTUGA https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19315966/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1

ithaka "Get Up I'm Free" (produced by Siba Giba)

ithaka "Get Up I'm Free" (produced by Siba Giba) new collaboration between Californian poet Ithaka and Brooklyn hip hop legend Siba Giba

https://www.discogs.com/release/22670378-ITHAKA-Get-Up-Im-Free-produced-by-Siba-Giba

Carl Cox drops Ithaka's "So Get Up" Acapella on BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix (2021-08-08)

Re: Carl Cox -

Carl Cox @ BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix (BBC Radio 1 Dance Weekend) (Shindig Presents, Times Square Newcastle, United Kingdom 2021-08-07) 2021-08-08 [1:15] Drunken Kong - Phoenix [ [TRONIC]] [7:00] ID - ID [10:00] ID - ID [14:00] Niereich - Liam [ [OCTOPUS WAREHOUSE SERIES]] [16:00] Rory Marshall & Latour - An Ode To The Rave [18:00] Rory Marshall - Fierce [ [23RD CENTURY ME]] [20:30] ID - ID w/ Jeff Mills - The Bells [ [PURPOSE MAKER]] [23:30] ID - ID [28:00] ID - ID [30:00] Vikthor & Elio Riso - Run To The Galaxy (Eric Powell Remix) [ [BUSH]] [36:00] Cirez D - On Off [ [MOUSEVILLE]] w/ Ithaka - So Get Up (Acappella) [41:30] ID - ID [46:00] Belocca & Iggy - Monkey Do [ [SELF RELEASED]] [50:00] ID - ID [54:00] Luca Morris & Mozzy Rekorder - Gypsy Woman [ [VIRGIN]] [58:00] ID - ID [1:01:30] Vikthor & Elio Riso - Soul & Trip [ [XELON]] [1:05:00] Alan Fitzpatrick vs. Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard (Alan Fitzpatrick Fully Charged Mix) [ [FFRR]] [1:10:30] Will Clarke - The Hymn [ [ALL WE HAVE IS NOW]] [1:14:00] Dave Clarke - Thunder [ [DECONSTRUCTION]] [1:17:00] Second Phase - Mentasm [ [R&S]] [1:19:00] New Order - Blue Monday [ [FACTORY]] [1:22:30] Jens Lissat - Brothers On Acid & Sisters Feel Love (Dub Mix) [ [STUDIO3000]] [1:27:30] Jon Rundell - Can't Stop [ [REKLUSE]] w/ Ultra Naté - Free (Acappella) [ [STRICTLY]] [1:30:00] Carl Cox - PURE (El Rancho Mix) [ [23RD CENTURY ME]] [1:35:00] ID - ID [1:39:00] Horatio - Midnight Acid [ [SHODAN RECORDS]] [1:44:00] Dubfire & Flug - Metanoia [ [DRUMCODE]] [1:47:00] Rory Marshall - Wurk (All Day) [ [23RD CENTURY ME]] [1:50:00] Yves Deruyter - Calling Earth (UMEK Bootleg) [1:53:30] Paul Johnson - Get Get Down [ [RISE RECORDS]] Please set a backlink to keep tracklist up-to-date: https://1001.tl/1ngmuhu1

So Get Up (1994) Underground Sound Of Lisbon featuring Ithaka

lyricist/vocalist of "So Get Up" 

Ithaka Darin Pappas

Underground Sound Of Lisbon – So Get Up (1994)

So Get Up was Portugal's home-grown club anthem and a track that instigated the country’s move away from just rock and fado music. Initially released as the B-side to their 1994 Chapter One track it features a doom-forecasting monologue – “The end of the world is upon us, pretty soon it will all turn to dust” – from Californian-Greek artist Ithaka Darin Pappas. A hard-thumping and squelchy acid monster in the same continuum lineage as music by Joey Beltram and Hardfloor, So Get Up took on the world when the Tribal America label licensed it and gave it to Junior Vasquez and Danny Tenaglia to remix.

https://www.redbull.com/ca-en/essential-portuguese-club-tracks

"YOU" DJ Vibe featuring Ithaka (Peter Bailey Remix) Urb Magazine

"YOU" DJ Vibe featuring Ithaka (Peter Baily Remix) Urb Magazine

This track has been killing it for me on dance floors for months. I loved the track so much I asked DJ Vibe to let me do the remix and he said, Yes. The track features lyrics and vocals from Ithaka (ithaka Darin Pappas) who was the voice and lyricist of the classic, "So Get Up". With a steady key line running throughout that builds and builds it's obvious why it causes caos on the dance floor.

Peter Bailey - URB Magazine July 23rd 2007

Ithaka Darin Pappas - EDMânia December 2016

https://www.discogs.com/artist/468212-ITHAKA

Gianna Jun y la Canción "So Get Up" de Ithaka (La canción que la transformó en una estrella)

 

En 1997, el proyecto breakbeat británico Stretch N Vern invitó a Ithaka Darin Pappas para grabar una vez más el vocal de su poema "So Get Up" para nuevas versiones de la canción titulada, Get Up! ¡Insane! Estas mezclas fueron lanzadas por "Grand Slam Records" en la U.K. con la participación de Fatboy Slim. En Inglaterra, la canción trazó el número 17 en los charts independientes de la danza. Unas de esas mezclas de fue encontrada en manos de los ejecutivos de Samsung Korea, que usó la música en una campaña nacional de publicidad muy popular para la serie de impresoras, My Jet. El comercial protagonizó una actriz desconocida llamada Jun Ji-Hyun (o Wang Ji-hyun).  Según la mayoría de las fuentes de medios de comunicación, este repetitivo primetime de la televisión de exposición con cuyo engergetic bailando a los gritos de Ithaka de Get Up! ¡Insane! Y su actitud súper-confiada transformó Jun Ji-Hyun en un icono adolescente de la juventud casi instantáneamente. Hoy es una de las mayores personalidades de televisión y cine de Corea, apareciendo el número 4 en la lista de Forbes Corea del 2015 de celebridades del poder. 

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Su sueño de la infancia era convertirse en una asistente de vuelo, pero a la edad de 16 años, fue descubierta en la calle por un editor de moda. Usando el nombre artístico de Jun Ji Hyun, comenzó su carrera como modelo para la revista Ecole en el año 1997. Jun primero llegó a ser bien conocido como un modelo comercial y como actriz de televisión. Aunque hizo su debut cinematográfico de poca sintonia White Valentine en 1999, no fue hasta más tarde en el año cuando apareció en el comercial de Samsung My Jet Printer que se convirtió en una sensación popular. El baile y la actitud expresada en el anuncio la convirtieron en un icono para los coreanos en la adolescencia y los veinte años.
Después de continuar su carrera de modelo y televisión, Jun hizo su primera aparición en el cine muy publicitado a fines del 2000 con Il Mare. Un melodrama generosamente Rodado situado en la isla de Ganghwa, la película hizo respetablemente bien en la taquilla (a pesar de la apertura en el mismo día que la exitosa Joint Security Area) y solidificó su estatus como una estrella. La película desglose de Jun fue la comedia My Sassy Girl, que se convirtió en un gran éxito tanto en Corea y en toda Asia, la película pasó dos semanas en el n º 1 en Hong Kong, y la convirtió en la estrella más reconocible de Corea en el mercado de habla china.
A finales de 2006 se anunció que junio iba a hacer su salto largamente pronosticada a Hollywood para tomar el papel principal en Blood: The Last Vampire. La coproducción internacional, fue filmada en China y Argentina en el 2007, es la adaptación de acción real de un anime japonés popular. Ella pasó por tres meses de duro entrenamiento de artes marciales y manejo de espada para interpretar a la heroína. Durante la filmación y promociones para la película antes de su lanzamiento en el 2009, adoptó el nombre occidentalizado Gianna Jun. "Gianna by True Religion" fue lanzada por la marca de pantalones vaqueros de lujo en el 2008, la primera línea de la celebridad. Según informes Jun participó en todas las etapas de su producción, desde el diseño hasta decidir la forma y lavado y su decoración con accesorios. Ella fue fotografiada por Annie Leibovitz para la edición de julio de la edición americana de Vogue, la primera actriz coreana que se incluiria en la revista icono de la moda.

Ithaka's "So Get Up", The Song That Made JUN JI HYUN (全智賢 전지현) A Star

In 1999, after starring in her first feature film at the age of eighteen, (the little-watched White Valentine), Korean actress Jun Ji-Hyun was still largely unknown.

It was not until later that year when she starred in a hugely popular commercial for Samsung My Jet Printers featuring a remix of Californian songwriter Ithaka Darin Pappas' iconic 1993 vocal-poem song, So Get Up, that, according to most media sources, she became a a public sensation.

 

The version of So Get Up featured in the campaign (called "Get Up! Go Insane") was made by UK producers Stretch & Vern, who brought Ithaka to the UK to re-record his 1993 classic. The final result, restructured the vocal hook differently from the original, but the overall message was the same, So Get Up...and live life to the fullest ! This anthem of defiance and celebration was exuberantly communicated by Jun Ji-Hyun's dancing dance and attitude in the clip.

The commercial sky-rocketed her from being a relatively unknown actress to being a cultural youth icon for all of South Korea and beyond (and eventually one of Korea's biggest film and television stars).

Ji-Kyun has since gone on to star in Sassy Girl (when of the biggest films in Korean history), You Who Came from the Stars, and The Legend of the Blue Sea.
She has won several national and international awards for her acting ability.

*Note: Ithaka rerecorded his iconic 1993, So Get Up specifically for Stretch & Vern's mix (in the UK, 1996). This is one of the only authorized versions of So Get Up in 25 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf-4C7VYzEw
Also see; So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas

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So Get Up, https://www.discogs.com/artist/468212-ITHAKA

Ithaka: lyricist, vocalist, and producer

"Fascinating lyricist, vocalist, and producer who doesn't seem to restrict himself to any specific genres. His 1993 acapella masterpiece, "So Get Up", (which was first remixed by Underground Sound Of Lisbon in 1994), has gone on to become one of the most mixed and memorable EDM vocals of the last two-and-a-half decades. It was most recently popularized by trance superstars, Cosmic Gate.

Ithaka's original "So Get Up" lyric and vocal have appeared in more than a thousand (yes, A Thousand !) tracks around the globe - in a wide range of sonic styles including; House, Progressive House, Electro House, Deep House, Tech House, UK Garage, Trance, Uplifting Trance, Techno, Hardcore, Dutch Hardcore, Gabber, Drum and Bass, Breakbeat, Dubstep, Synthpop, Trip hop, Hip hop, Downtempo, Nu jazz , Ambient, Rock and Art Rock.

His eight solo albums have, for the most part, a chilled-out story-telling kind of hip hop/trip hop vibe. One of the records, Voiceless Blue Raven, is all instrumental. And another, So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas, is almost entirely vocal...returning once again to his roots as a spoken-word poet.

His song "Escape from the City of Angels" from the album, Fishdaddy Flashbacks was used in the soundtrack to Antoine Fuqua's feature film, The Replacement Killers, starring Chow Yun Fat and Mira Sorvino (released by Columbia Pictures)."

http://www.whosampled.com/Ithaka/

SO GET UP - Original Unedited Lyrics by Ithaka Darin Pappas

"So Get Up" written and vocalized by Ithaka  - 1993

© Ithaka Darin Pappas

Ravenshark Music/Scion Four Music/ASCAP

Album: So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas

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"SO GET UP"

THE END OF THE EARTH IS UPON US

PRETTY SOON ITLL 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 YOULL LICK THE FLOOR

CUZ, 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

More information about So Get Up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Get_Up

https://www.facebook.com/IthakaBlue/


SO GET UP - lyrics and vocals by Ithaka.
Publishing: Ravenshark Music/Scion Four Music/ASCAP

See his new vocal-only album entitled
"So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas"
released by Sweatlodge Records.
https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ithaka2

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Also titled,
Ithaka's "So Get Up" vocals and lyrics have been used on tracks mixed by: Underground Sound Of Lisbon, Junior Vasquez, Danny Tenaglia, Orion's Voice, Sarasite, Committee, Public Domain, Stretch & Verne, Marcel, Fatboy Slim, Atlantis ITA, Ce Ce Lee, PC, Miss Kittin, K-Trax, High Voltage, Dyla, Mert Yücel, Eric Kupper, King-Size, Dan Robbins, Low End Specialists, Architect, Meat Katie, Phobia, Lexicon Avenue, Dave Seaman, Mowree, Sharp & Smooth, Alex Bass,  David Mimram, Phunk Investigation, DJ Zorneus, Lochness DJ Team, Maziano, Dantim, Seikos, Pathfinder, Andrea Doria & Dino Lenny, Philippe Rochard, Bart Skils, Hakan Sarigul, Derek Mari, Danny Garlick, Black Force, Armin Van Buuren, Hardwell, Cosmic Gate, Heartbeat, Bob Ray & Van Dyuk, Furio Levant, Koozah, Ben Gold, Pelari, Igor Carmo, Swing Kings,  JJ Mullor, Dani Sbert, Micromakine, Atmozfears, Acti & Antolini, TNT, Technoboy, Razat, Joseph LP, Alex Page, Feed, Lee Burridge, FuturePlays, Samir Kuliev, Armin Van Buuren, Rui Flip, Geometric Dark, Alex Di Stefano, Nell Silva, etc, etc, etc.

Thru the years, So Get Up Has been released by the labels: Armada Music [Netherlands], Wake Your Mind [Germany], Nervous Records [USA], Kaos Records [Portugal], Tribal Records [USA], Tribal Records [UK}, Twisted Records (U.S.), Twisted Records (UK), Plastic City [Germany], Sweatlodge Records [USA], Absolutely Records [Italy], Kontor records, 24 Records [Italy], Skint, Bosphorus Underground Recordings [Turkey], Chuvstvo Ritma Records [Russia], Black Hole Recordings [Netherlands], Elektrobeats Records [Italy], Forensic Records [UK], Mental Madness Records [Germany], Groove Records [Switzerland], Hymen Records [Germany], Trance Corporation Recordings [Spain], Titanic Records [Italy], Hardcore Maniacs [Spain], Party Label Unique Records [Netherlands], Desire Records [Portugal], Black Habitat Records, People Tech Records [Venzuela], HARDwithSTYLE Records [Netherlands], Subground Records [Italy], Memory Stick Records [Netherlands], Union Recordings [Poland], Supermarket Records, Orange Groove Recordings, Doctors Of Chaos Records [Italy], Next Cyclone Records [Italy], Elektrobeats Records [Italy], Digital+ Records [Spain], Bliss Point Records [Turkey], Activa Records [Italy], Afterglow Records [Germany], Sector Beatz [Switzerland], Re-Fuel Records [Netherlands], Fabric Records [UK], Dogmain Records [Portugal], PTP Records [Germany], Bit Music [Spain], Sys-X Records [Netherlands], Spot On Records [UK], Overodose Records [Germany], Lost Paradise Records, BZRK Records [Netherlands], Kontor Records, 24 Records [Italy], Skint, Renegade Hardware [UK], Melody Maker Records [Italy], Tronic [Sweden], Mole Listening Pearls [Germany], Refreshed [Germany], etc, etc, etc.

So Get Up and its derivitives have been written about by: Ariya Beitollahi, Ryan Farber, Steph Evans, Hugh Lurcott, Hannah DeuPree, etc.

For publications such as: Mix Max, Daily Beat, Insomniac, Earmilk,  DJ Maj, Mix Mag, etc

International Women's Day "So Get Up" Benefit Cover-Version For Equality Now.

Final part in a series of International Women’s Day collaborative covers that include  an all-Lisbonite cover by Violet, BLEID, Caroline, Lethô, EDND, Yen Sung, Belita, Maria Amor, Sonja - of Underground Sound Of Lisbon’s "So Get Up" (featuring lyrics by Californian poet and hip hop artist, ITHAKA aka Ithaka Darin Pappas).

All donations when downloading tracks go to Equality Now, an NGO fighting for gender equality around the globe.

https://internationalwomensday.bandcamp.com/track/violet-x-bleid-x-caroline-leth-x-ednd-x-yen-sung-so-get-up-feat-belita-maria-amor-sonja-underground-sound-of-lisbon-cover

 

So Get Up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Get_Up

"So Get Up" - Cosmic Gate' featuring Ithaka "So Get Up" Receives 8 out 10 Review In Mix Mag

 Cosmic Gate's "So Get Up" 

featuring (in entirety) 

the iconic 1993 vocal-poem 

by Californian songwriter, Ithaka

 receives 8 out of 10 in Mix Mag review

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 Cosmic Gate's "So Get Up" 

featuring (in entirety) 

the iconic 1993 vocal-poem 

by Californian songwriter, Ithaka

 receives 8 out of 10 in Mix Mag review

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Inspired perhaps by the launch of their new label, Cosmic Gate take a big bold step down the electric-house strasse here. Re-tasking the acapella-apocalypto written by and vocalized by Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas) in 1993 [for Underground Sound Of Lisbon], they crank up the extreme frequencies and EQs while using trance aspects as incidentals, rather than the core. Sure to divisive in terms of Trance Family opinion, but any which way you cut it, you can't deny its effectiveness on the dance floor.
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           Ithaka - EDMânia (South America) Dec 2016

Armin Van Burren plays Ithaka's "So Get Up" acapella poem at A State Of Trance (2017)

 

ARMIN VAN BUUREN (World #4 Top DJ) 

opened his historic vinyl set 

at the A State Of Trance Festival

with Ithaka's acapella poem "So Get Up" 

(Utrecht, Netherlands Feb.18th 2017)

 

VIDEO CLIP - ASOT UCRECHT

Ithaka : So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas

ithaka : So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas

Collection of vocal poems recorded in Europe in 1993, which had been completely lost until being rediscovered in early 2017 (on a damaged cassette tape in a Los Angeles garage). These are the companion works for the iconic, So Get Up.

 https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ithaka2

Californian-born writer and vocalist Ithaka (aka Ithaka Darin Pappas) relocated from his native Los Angeles in 1992 to Europe where the artist entered of six year period of hyper-creativity. There he wrote, vocalized, created sculptures and photographed among other activities.

In 1993 he wrote a collection of poems for a daily audio segment he hosted on a program called Quatro Bairro on Rádio Commercial, Lisbon. After reciting some these poems live on Rádio Comerical in 1993, he later recorded them as a collection of demos with a producer friend in the UK.

The next year he recorded one of these poems, So Get Up, with the progressive-house project Underground Sound Of Lisbon who achieved massive international success with the track via distribution by Tribal/I.R.S. Records in New York.

Between a series of moves and career developments, the original 1993 vocal poem demos recorded in England were lost. Neither studio technician or artist could find the original, or copies.

So Get Up went on to become an international EDM anthem remixed by greats such as; Miss Kittin, Fatboy Slim. Mert Yücel, Dave Seaman etc.


Later in 2013, the song saw yet another chapter of fame when top DJ's both Hardwell and Armina Van Buuren endorsed a new version of the So Get Up rleased by German trance music stars Cosmic Gate using Ithaka's original lyrical/ vocal acapella)

Ithaka himself went on to record a series of critically acclaimed hip hop albums.

Here together on this disc are two new vocal recordings of Ithaka's iconic poems "So Get Up" and "We Are The Players" (recorded in Mexico - 2017) along with the complete collection of vocal-poem acapella demos made in 1993, some with their original proposed instrumental sketches. Please note: These are not intended to be finished songs, but instead are included to demonstrate Ithaka's early musical direction prior to both Underground Sound Of Lisbon's version of So Get Up (1994) and his own solo album, Flowers And The Color Of Paint (1995).

So Get Up

 

"SO GET UP"

 written and vocalized by  Ithaka (aka: Ithaka Darin Pappas)

 was rereleased in 2017 on his all acapella album

So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas

[Sweatlodge Records (USA)]

So Get Up (video) 

OFFICIAL "SO GET UP" T-SHIRT

OFFICIAL "SO GET UP" T-SHIRTS (Now available)

http://ithakaofficial.com/product/7-so-get-up-t-shirt/

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Inspired by the lyrics of the apocalyptic (but uplifting) vocal-poem,

"So Get Up", originally written and recorded in Lisbon by

Greek-Californian songwriter and vocalist, Ithaka Darin Pappas

(who lived in Portugal from 1992-1998).

During the last two-and-a-half decades,

Ithaka's iconic So Get Up vocal has served

as the foundation for more than

1000 electronic dance music releases,

ALL derived that original acapella recording made in Portugal.

It has been remixed, reinterpreted and re-released

in a multitude of EDM genres including;

house, progressive house, trance, techno, tech house, hardstyle, grabber, electro, dubstep, big beat, drum & bass - and hip hop and rock as well.

Among the many international DJ/producer greats 

that have released their own versions of So Get Up are:

Armin van Buuren (Holland), Cosmic Gate (Germany), Miss Kittin(France), DJ Vibe (Portugal) and Fatboy Slim (UK).

With a documented one-thousand and twenty-nine releases,

So Get Up currently holds the Guinness World Records

for 'Most Remixed Vocal A Cappella In Musical History'.

SO GET UP - The Lost Acapellas Of Ithaka

In early, 2017, Los Angeles-based independent music label, Sweatlodge Records will release the seventh album by the Californian songwriter, Ithaka, entitled, So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas. The record will include thirteen of Ithaka's vocalized poems (without music), many of which were written during 1992 and 1993, two of the six years that the artist lived in Lisbon. Also, as a bonus track, the original 1993 demo-version of So Get Up will appear.


There in Portugal, Ithaka was regularly recited his texts and rhymes for the daily radio program, Quatro Bairro on the national station, Rádio Comerical. Ten of the poems offered on the Lost Acapellas release were written and recorded specifically for the radio program and later (in mid-1993) were rerecorded as voice-over and musical demos on a visit to England. These recordings, were missing for 23 years until recently being discovered in a Los Angeles storage unit on a antiquated cassette tape.


Among these early acapella poems is So Get Up, most recently re-popularized by Armin Van Buuren and Cosmic Gate, which today (twenty-four years and more than a thousand releases and adaptions later) is considered The Most Remixed Vocal Acapella In Musical History (by Guinness World Records - 2016, 2017).


Ithaka first wrote So Get Up in a small cafe in Amoeira near Rádio Comerical about an hour before going on air with it for his slot on Quatro Bairro, unfortunately this very first recording has never been recovered. He did however, as mentioned, record it a second time in the U.K - to present to radio producers and possibly record companies.


There working at Rádio Comerical, Ithaka met DJ Vibe (Portugal's most prominent DJ), who played an hour of progressive house music immediately following Ithaka's segments. There Vibe usually heard the end of Ithaka's vocal sequences and was intrigued by the poems. Some months later, he invited him to participate as a guest vocalist on the first release by Underground Sound Of Lisbon (a progressive house duo consisting of Vibe and Rui Da Silva) for Kaos Records.


They recorded Ithaka's vocal in the early hours of a rainy winter night at the garage studio, 1 Só Céu, owned by the Portuguese rock band called, Os Delfins.

Ithaka was told by Kaos (a micro label at the time) that they would make 200 white-labels vinyls for distribution within Portugal only. They paid him $70 dollars for his participation, with a verbal promise to discuss any future distributions and manufacturing that would possibly follow. And weeks later, from just that single white-label distribution, the song exploded into an almost instantaneous national dance floor classic.


Although open-minded musically, Ithaka was more associated with hip hop, surfing and contemporary art more than dance music and only infrequently appeared at the clubs his apocalyptic poem had literally become an anthem for an entire generation of club goers, inspiring even people who never liked dance music to get involved.


Ironically, Kaos Records and Underground Sound Of Lisbon themselves never made a point of explaining who the mystery prophet was and nobody seemed to ask, the press included - even though Ithaka was indeed the actual performer and owned 50% of the publishing.


"I remember specifically on a couple of occasions trying to get into Lisbon-area night clubs, which was always a chore because of the wait to get in, and there in line, two different times during height of the song's first wave of popularity, I could hear So Get Up playing on the dance floor...The first was at Frágil in Bairro Alto - and I said to the snob at the door, hey man, that's me, my voice...let me in.  And the doorman said, if that was you...I would know who you are AND I DON'T! - And the other time, a few months later, was at ALCÂNTARA, when I again declared that that was my voice with hundreds of people shouting the lyrics on top of it muffled behind the thick curtains out the dance floor..and that doorman said, Yes, my friend, and Elvis is still alive too!


In late 1994, Ithaka left Portugal for four months back to Los Angeles for an art exhibit - and during that short amount of time, Kaos Records had licensed So Get Up, without consulting him, to several international parties most notably Tribal Records -USA, a sub-subsidiary of Miles Copeland's I.R.S. Records (EMI).


Although Rob Di Stefano, the managing director of Tribal Records had met Ithaka on a previous trip to Portugal, and obviously understood he was from California and only temporarily residing in Portugal, he realized the marketing potential of an exotic 100% Portuguese house music product arriving in the U.S. for the first time and made no attempt to publicize the vocalist's true origins. No featuring Ithaka credit was ever included on any of the releases, even though he is both the author and the vocalist. Yes, this is dance music, but no matter how good or bad the production is, no one can deny that the vocal-poem and adjoining hooks are the primal guts of the entire So Get Up experience. How else could it possibly appeal to such a large musical spectrum of DJs and producers?


The first 1994 release of So Get Up on Tribal was a double-vinyl set with ten-mixes, including several versions by New York superstars Junior Vasquez and Danny Tenaglia. The early international popularity of So Get Up was undoubtfully manifested by these interpretations by Vasquez and Tenaglia. Two New York all-stars creating music around the words of a California hip hop wordsmith. To call So Get Up, even at that point, a 100% Portuguese release, was inaccurate at best.  The first release by Tribal, which sold upwards of 50,000 copies, also included an uncredited acapella of Ithaka's raw poem - which paved the way for a vast multitude of remixes and samplings over a huge cross-section of electronic musical genres.


 With the exception of Stretch & Verne's legally licensed rerecord "Get Up, Go Insane!" in 1997 (and subsequently Fatboy Slim's remix of that), every other international release of So Get Up has essentially been unauthorized. It is fair to say that every (of the more than a thousand mixes released) house, trance, techno, electro, drum & bass, big beat, dub step, and art rock versions - under their varying titles of "So Get Up", "Get Up", "Forget The Past", "the End Of The Earth", "Have A Blast", "Headcharge", "Hardaventure", etc. have been issued illegally. No record royalties or performance royalties have ever been paid to the vocalist/lyricist although all have been made using Ithaka's 1994 recording - made that late night way back when in Cascais, Portugal. By the most recent estimates of Ithaka's publisher attempting to recoup his writing shares, So Get Up in it's many incarnations has been either sold or downloaded more than 30,000,000 times and approximately 250,000,000 have at least heard the poem. Whether payment ever falls into the right hands, time will only tell.

Ithaka himself has had an unusual career (and life) to say the least. He came to recording not thru music itself, but via music photography, visual arts....and reading books. For nearly three years, among his many other sporadic occupations, Ithaka was the principal photographer for Priority Records gangster rap icons, NWA and Eazy E , but that's a story for another day.

In 1992, attempting to expand his boundaries outside of the Southern California area, the half-Greek, Ithaka Darin Pappas, set off soul-searching. He first relocated to Athens for six months and then spent a year in Tokyo, finally landing in Lisbon where he spent more than six years.

During this six-year period in Portugal, Ithaka was hyper-productive. He recorded So Get Up (and many other poems), made two award-winning hip hop albums, published translated poems and short stories in Portuguese magazines - and had several large scale sculpture exhibits of his work. He also photographically documented much of the early and mid-nineties Portuguese music scene, shooting record covers for rock, hip hop and EDM projects.

SO GET UP

"SO GET UP" (1993 Demo) - Very rare 1993 demo version of the iconic electronic dance music vocal-poem "So Get Up". This lyric was originally written and recorded by Ithaka (aka: Ithaka Darin Pappas) in January 1993 for a Rádio Comercial Program in Lisbon.

In March of 1993, this Demo version was recorded in Manchester, United Kingdom with producer Simon 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