Showing posts with label Get Up Go Insane. Show all posts
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Sunday, January 31, 2021

So Get Up lyrics

So Get Up written and vocalized by Ithaka Darin Pappas in 1992 is one of the most remixed vocal acapellas in musical history.
Ithaka Darin Pappas in Hawaii - 2021.

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

(PLUMP DJS REMIX) Get Up, Go Insane - DJ Mag


LONDON RECORDS


Cover of Ithaka's 1993 So Get Up

Sunday, May 21, 2017

Ithaka's "So Get Up" in Jun Ji-Hyun Samsung Commerical



Source:IMDB

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.

But according to most media sources, she suddenly became an extremely high-profile public sensation later that same year when she appeared in this hugely popular commercial for Samsung My Jet Printers (DNA series) shown energetically dancing to a remix of the iconic 1993 song, "So Get Up", by Ithaka (aka Californian songwriter, vocalist and contemporary artist, Ithaka Darin Pappas).



The commercial was made by CJ E&M Pictures in Seoul, South Korean for approximately $1,900,000 dollars. And incorporated an internationally recognized choreographer as well as an experienced troop of background dancers to compliment Jun Ji-Hyun.
The version of the song So Get Up featured in the campaign, called the Get Up! Go Insane! Remix, was made by UK producers Stretch & Vern, who in 1996 brought Ithaka to England to re-record his 1993 classic for their own interpretation of the tune. The final result restructured the vocal hook differently from the original, but the overall lyrical 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 hyper-kinetically dancing with supreme confidence to Ithaka's shouts of "Get Up! Go Insane!". And the mass repetitive primetime exposures of the ad sky-rocketed Jun Ji-Hyun from being a relatively unknown actress to becoming a cultural youth-icon for all of South Korea and beyond (and eventually one of Korea's biggest film and television stars). Not to mention the fact, that overall, the campaign helped to sell more than eight-million Samsung printers. The Samsung My Jet commercial won four national and international awards for Best Commercial for its year of release (1999).

Ji-Kyun has since gone on to star in Sassy Girl (one of the biggest films in Korean history), You Who Came from the Stars, and The Legend of the Blue Sea series. She has won several national and international awards for her acting ability.
Ithaka's "So Get Up" has gone on to become The Most Remixed Acapella in musical history as recognized by the Guinness World Book of Records. As of 2016, there were more than eleven-hundred released remixes.






*Lyrics & Vocals by: Ithaka

"SO GET UP"

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 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


So Get Up has been written about by: Ariya Beitollahi, Ryan Farber, Steph Evans, Hugh Lurcott, Hannah DeuPree, Lena Kochetkova, etc ...............................
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....for publications such as: Mix Max, Daily Beat, DJ Mag, Magnetic Magazine, Insomniac, etc

Thursday, May 18, 2017

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



Tuesday, December 13, 2016

"SO GET UP" - Video With Lyrics





So Get Up (the poem)...NOT by Cosmic Gate - NOT by Underground Sound Of Lisbon. I am currently writing an article for EDMania Magazine (Brazil) about the lack of lyric and vocal credit in dance music (even though some of our music is very lyrical indeed). After six-weeks of research, the example (of hundreds) that most repeatedly keeps hitting me in the head is SO GET UP !. One of the most used vocals in the history of music (ALL music). 

Ironically after hearing the voice for nearly 12 years, I only recently discovered the source of this iconic dance festival anthem. It was written (and vocalized) in 1993 by a Greek-Californian from Los Angeles, Ithaka (aka Ithaka Darin Pappas), a well-known contemporary artist, writer/poet and producer, who musically is more associated with hip hop and trip hop. 

Obviously, the true identifying factor of all 1150 trance, house, big beat, drum & bass, grabber and dubstep mixes of the absolutely iconic So Get Up are the timeless lyrics and animated vocal of Mr. Pappas. 

Does any of this even matter? 

Personally I despise rap music, but are we so wrapped up in our electronic wonderland not to show at least a little love to a poet, whose work as been heard by more people around the world than have ever read Emerson ? 

PS: Another IIthaka song, Escape From The City Of Angels ((hip hop) debuted in acclaimed film director Antoine Fuqua feature movie The Replacement Killers and is considered a true underground hip hop classic: 


Monday, December 12, 2016

The Lack Of Vocal Credit In EDM by Raj Dabral (Ex: "So Get Up" by Ithaka)

 



So Get Up (the poem)...NOT by Cosmic Gate - NOT by Underground Sound Of Lisbon. I am currently writing an article for EDMania Magazine (Brazil) about the lack of lyric and vocal credit in dance music (even though some of our music is very lyrical indeed). After six-weeks of research, the example (of hundreds) that most repeatedly keeps hitting me in the head is SO GET UP !. One of the most used vocals in the history of music (ALL music). 

Ironically after hearing the voice for nearly 12 years, I only recently discovered the source of this iconic dance festival anthem. It was written (and vocalized) in 1993 by a Greek-Californian from Los Angeles, Ithaka (aka Ithaka Darin Pappas), a well-known contemporary artist, writer/poet and producer, who musically is more associated with hip hop and trip hop. 

Obviously, the true identifying factor of all 1150 trance, house, big beat, drum & bass, grabber and dubstep mixes of the absolutely iconic So Get Up are the timeless lyrics and animated vocal of Mr. Pappas. 

Does any of this even matter? 

Personally I despise rap music, but are we so wrapped up in our electronic wonderland not to show at least a little love to a poet, whose work as been heard by more people around the world than have ever read Emerson ? 

PS: Another IIthaka song, Escape From The City Of Angels ((hip hop) debuted in acclaimed film director Antoine Fuqua feature movie The Replacement Killers and is considered a true underground hip hop classic: 






Friday, December 9, 2016

- So Get Up - Ithaka (The voice)

So Get Up (source: Wikipedia)

"So Get Up"

Lyricist/Vocalist, Ithaka
Single by Ithaka with mixes by USL, Miss Kittin, Cosmic Gate etc.
Released 7 July 1994
Format 12", CDS, Downloads
Recorded 14 June 1993,
1 Ceu Só Estudios, Portugal
Genre Spoken word, Ambient, House Music, progressive house, Electro house, Trance Music, Uplifting trance, Drum and bass, Breakbeat, Dubstep, Synthpop, UK garage, Techno, Trip hop, Hip hop, Art rock
Length varying lengths
Label
Writer(s) Lyrics Ithaka Darin Pappas publisher= Ravenshark Music/Scion Four (NY)ASCAP, (original music) Rui Da Silva, DJ Vibe
Certification G
So Get Up, written and vocalized by Ithaka, is a 1993 spoken-word Electronic dance music vocal-poem more frequently credited to the Portuguese house music production duo Underground Sound of Lisbon and the GermanTrance music duo, Cosmic Gate.
LYRICS: 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 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.
Although Ithaka's poem vocal was written and first recorded in 1993 for a program called "Bairro Quatro" on Rádio Comercial in Lisbon, the initial musical element backing the poem was created in 1994 by DJ Vibe & Doctor J aka Underground Sound Of Lisbon (or USL) [1] who invited Ithaka (at that time using an alias name, Korvowrong) to rerecord the poem as a guest vocalist on their first release. Ithaka Darin Pappas lived and recorded in Lisbon, Portugal from 1992-1998.
USL's original 12" Progressive house mix of So Get Up was 9 minutes and 22 secs long, and was released as the B-side of the "Chapter One E.P". In Portugal this was released by Kaos Records, and worldwide by Tribal UK and Twisted Records (U.S.). It became a major Portuguese dance music "national anthem" and influenced a large populace of Portuguese youth to get interested in house music, famous for Ithaka's shouting "So Get Up, forget the past, the end of the world is upon us! Pretty soon it will all turn to dust!"
In 1994, the UK edition of the single (now as A side), had several remixes by Danny Tenaglia and Junior Vasquez as well as an original mix and a cappella version. This first international edition sold approximately 50,000 copies.
Thru the last two decades, So Get Up under varying titles such as; "Get Up", "Get Up, Go Insane!", "The End Of The Earth", "Hardventure", Headcharge, "Forget The Past", etc has been remixed, sampled and released in a multitude of EDM styles on the records of; Fatboy Slim, Stretch & Verne, Oxia, Peter Bailey, Orion's Voice, JJ Mullor, Dani Sbert, Lexington Avenue, Dylan, Derek Marin, Public Domain, K-Traxx, Technoboy, Bob Ray & Van Dyuk, Ben Gold, Pelari, and many others.
In 2003, Miss Kittin used the entire "So Get Up" poem as part of the intro on her album Radio Caroline Vol.1.
In 2005, Kaos Records released a 10th Anniversary Edition of the single. The CD release included 8 different tracks:
Although some legal and registered re-mixes have been made of So Get Up, because an acappella was included in the first U.S. and U.K. releases on Tribal Records, rouge musical versions using the vocal have snowballed out of control. Hundreds of House, Trance, Techno, Rock, Dub-step and Grabber producers have simply placed the So Get Up vocal on their own instrumentals and called them their own (sometimes with subtle title changes but often just as "So Get Up"). To date there are now at least 1029 released remixes using the Ithaka Darin Pappas' original vocal recording - and as of late 2016, So Get Up now hold the distinction of being the most remixed vocal a cappella in musical history (Guinness World Record Holder 2016 [2]).
So Get Up by it's individual producers and djs has been played/performed at large scale dance parties around the global such as the Electric Daisy Carnival in New York (2016) as interpreted by Cosmic Gate.[3]

Contents

The "So Get Up" controversy

In 1993, Ithaka had originally written and recited the poem called So Get Up (The End Of The Earth Is Upon Us) for his weekly segment of a radio program called Quatro Bairro on Antena One in Lisbon, Portugal. The next year he rerecorded it as a guest performer to be the primary vocal of a B-Side single for the Portuguese dance music group called Underground Sound Of Lisbon. The song became an instant national hit and was later released internationally as a ten-mix, double vinyl set on New York's Tribal Records (a subsidiary of I.R.S. Records/E.M.I. Records). The song climbed to 8th place on the Billboard's Independent Dance Music Charts for the U.K. – and number 52nd in the United States. Since 1995, the song has been remixed over a thousand times including versions by such greats as Fat Boy Slim, Junior Vasquez, Danny Tenaglia, Cosmic Gate and has appeared on over fifty compilations with combined sales in the millions. As the original music has been stripped away by each succeeding producer, the only singularly unifying element of all 1000+ mixes is Ithaka's poem and his vocals. Ironically, the song which was considered the first modern "Portuguese" musical export was released without even a "featuring Ithaka" credit even though Ithaka, a Californian who was only temporarily residing in Lisbon, was the primary publishing rights owner of the track and never a member of the Underground Sound Of Lisbon project. Reportedly no actual record royalties were ever paid to Ithaka [4].
In 2013, German Trance superstars, Cosmic Gate, also excluded Ithaka's vocal/lyrical credit even though they licensed the entire So Get Up a cappella. Without a doubt, Cosmic Gate's version has become the biggest commercial success of So Get Up to date. It was featured on Armin Van Buuren's compilation A State Of Trance 2013, on Cosmic's Gate album Start to Feel(2014)[5], with additional mixes by Pelarli, Alex di Stefano and Ben Gold. It has been a festival favorite for the group since it's release, being performed at Amsterdam Dance Event, Electric Daisy Carnival, Ultra Music Festival and on Cosmic Gate's own world tour.

Track list

  1. So Get Up (original mix)
  2. So Get Up (Junior's Factory mix; remix – Junior Vasquez)
  3. So Get Up (Danny's "In The Light We Sleep" mix; remix – Danny Tenaglia)
  4. So Get Up (King-Size mix - King-Size)
  5. So Get Up (Eric Kupper's Tribalectro mix; remix – Eric Kupper)
  6. So Get Up (Low End Specialists mix; remix – Low End Specialists)
  7. So Get Up (Mert Yücel DeepXperience mix; remix – Mert Yucel)
  8. So Get Up (Dan Robbins Three Dimension mix; remix – Dan Robbins)

Remixes/uses/sampling

Documented uses of vocal & poem, So Get Up [by Ithaka Darin Pappas ©1993] in modern music appearing under varying titles. Poem was originally recorded for Radio Antenna 1 in Lisbon, Portugal in 1993. However, most musical versions stemmed from uses/sampling of the a cappella version that was recorded for Underground Sound Of Lisbon in Portugal, 1994. Note: This list includes both legal and unauthorized uses.
  • 1994 Orion's Voice – "The Next Life": original mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) [6]
  • 1994 Sarasite – "The End Of The Earth": Jatzzup mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Melody Maker Records, Italy[7]
  • 1994 Sarasite – "The End Of The Earth": Patrick P.d.j. Tribal mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Melody Maker Records, Italy[8]
  • 1994 Sarasite – "The End Of The Earth": M.C. Hair New Wave Vibrations mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Melody Maker Records, Italy[9]
  • 1995 Public Domain – "So Get Up" : Jeremy mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) BZRK Records, Netherlands [10][11]
  • 1995 Public Domain – "So Get Up" : Dr. Phil's mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) BZRK Records, Netherlands[12]
  • 1995 Public Domain – "So Get Up" : original mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) BZRK Records, Netherlands[13]
  • 1997 Stretch & Verne – "Get Up, Go Insane !" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Spot On Records - U.K.
  • 2000 Fatboy Slim aka Norman Cook – Fatboy Slim's Greatest Remixes - "Get Up, Go Insane!"[14] (lyrics, vocals) Priarity Records
  • 2000 Atlantis ITA – See You In The Next Life : original mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Overodose Records, Germany[15]
  • 2000 Atlantis ITA – See You In The Next Life : Dj Scot Project remix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Overodose Records, Germany[16]
  • 2002 K-Traxx – "Hardventure": original mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Titanic Records, Italy [17]
  • 2003 Orion's Voice – "The Next Life": original mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Re-Fuel Records, Netherlands[18]
  • 2003 Orion's Voice – "The Next Life": Origin Unknown remix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Re-Fuel Records, Netherlands[19]
  • 2012 Derek Marin – "The End Of The Earth" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals)[20]
  • 2013 Bob Ray & Van Dyuk – "So Get Up" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals)[21] Elektrobeats Records
  • 2013 Cosmic Gate – "So Get Up" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) [22] - (Germany)
  • 2014 Igor Carmo – "So Get Up" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals)[23] Nervous records
  • 2014 Swing Kings – "The End Of The Earth" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) [24] Orange Groove Records
  • 2014 JJ Mullor, Dani Sbert – "So Get Up" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals)[25] Supermarket Records
  • 2015 Razat - "Get Up" Bombastic Bootleg Remix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals)
  • 2016 Club Atlas - "So Get Up" Red Bull Culture Clash Mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) 


Thursday, December 8, 2016

So Get Up


So Get Up's lyricist/vocalist ITHAKA [aka: Ithaka Darin Pappas] cover/interview feature in DN Radical (a music supplement of the Portuguese newspaper Diário de Notícias) in November - 1997.


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As of 2016, with at least 1029 documented remixes to its credit
 "So Get Up" a vocal spoken-word poem written and recorded by 
Californian artist and songwriter Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)
is the Guinness World Record holder for
"Most Musical Remixes Created From Single Acapella"

It is estimated that more than 33.5 million copies 
of the various versions of So Get Up 
have been sold/downloaded  since 1994.
 

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

"So Get Up" Creator & Vocalist, Ithaka - Cover of EDMânia Magazine


"So Get Up" Creator and Vocalist, Ithaka 
(Cover of EDMânia Magazine - Dec. 2016 - South American Edition) 


In 2016, with at least 1029 documented remixes to its credit
 "So Get Up" a vocal spoken-word poem written and recorded by 
Californian artist and songwriter Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)
was the Guinness World Record holder for
"Most Musical Remixes Created From Single Acapella"


Ithaka initially penned "So Get Up",
(first titled, The End Of The Earth Is Upon Us)
in mid-1993 for a daily segment of a program he regularly hosted 
on Rádio Comerical Lisbon called "Bairro Quatro".
It was recited the first time live on-air 
just an hour or two after it was written.

In 1994, also in Portugal, he re-recorded it with
a house music duo called Underground Sound Of Lisbon.
It was distributed nationally and later on Tribal Records (NY) 
with an a capella version, incredulously without a vocal credit.

It is this a capella that has been remixed, robbed, sampled, remade 
and covered to a degree unseen in the history of modern music.

In 2016, at last count there were 1029 released remixes 
of  the vocal "So Get Up" (often under different titles such as;
  The End Of The Earth, Get Up Go Insane, Forget The Past, etc). 
Guinness World Record now recognizes the SO Get Up vocal poem
 as holding the title for "Most Musical Remixes Created From Single A Capella" 
bypassing #2, Turkish pop-vocalist Evrim Tuzun, by more than 800 mixes.


Because the first release of So Get Up was not vocally credited, 
this seemed to green-light all other remix users 
of the acapella to not credit it as well (most producers 
thought the vocal and lyrics were  public domain, perhaps from an old film).

Although some mixes were legally licensed, 
many EDM artists simply made their own electronic music tracks
and place Ithaka's vocals and lyrics on top of it,
and called it entirely their own without requesting permission 
or paying royalties.

Among the more known mixes of "So Get Up" there are versions by such all-star groups/producers as; Cosmic Gate (Germany), Danny Tenaglia (USA), Junior Vazquez (USA), DJ Vibe (Portugal), Mert Yücel (Turkey), Eric Kupper (USA), Fatboy Slim (UK) and Miss Kittin (France). 

An incomplete list of DJ/producers who have remixed, reworked, covered or sampled the vocal poem "So Get Up" by Ithaka Darin Pappas since its first recording in 1993 include: Cosmic Gate (Germany), Danny Tenaglia (USA), Junior Vazquez (USA), DJ Vibe (Portugal), Mert Yücel (Turkey), Eric Kupper (USA), Fatboy Slim (UK) and Miss Kittin (France), Pelarli, Alex Di Stefano, Public Domain (Holland), Pagano (Italy), Mirabeau (UK), Damaged People (UK), Mowree (Italy), Stretch & Verne (UK), Sarasite, Orion's Voice, Bob Ray & Van Dyuk, Igor Carmo, JJ Mullor, Dani Sber, Swing Kings, Atlantis IT, Ben Gold, Nixu Zsun (France), Ricardo Diaz, Peter Bailey (USA), DJ Kingsize, FuturePlays (Mexico), Derek Marin,  Oxia (France), Domino, DJ Diego Mendonça, Mauro Ferno, Maik Ibane, Ce Ce Lee (Italy), Dj Kryst-Off Aka Zornéus (France), FRANKYEFFE (Italy), Branko & Club Atlas (members of Buraka Som Sistema), Alex Page (Portugal), Nell Silva (Portugal), Alex Farolfi, Fargetta, GianLuca Mens, The Ventura 87, Dimas Carbajo, Christo Z (Greece), Ronni King,Terry Lee Brown JR., DJ Theo V (Greece), Djz Rom (Cambodia), DJ Beg, Lexicon Avenue, DJ Screw (Thailand) etc etc.

Labels that have released "So Get Up" mixes include: Tribal (USA-UK), Twisted (USA-UK), Forensic, Kaos (Portugal), Plastic City, Bosphorus Underground Recording (Turkey).

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Lyrics for SO GET UP

By: Ithaka Darin Pappas ©1993
(RavenShark Music/Scion Four Music/ASCAP)

"SO GET UP"
.......................................................

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

CUZ, THE END OF THE EARTH IS UPON US
PRETTY SOON IT’LL ALL TUN TO DUST

GOODBYE MY FRIENDS
GOODBYE WORLD

I’LL SEE YOU IN THE NEXT LIFE