So Get Up (beamed down from outer space)

So Get Up (satellite radio). It's surreal, to say the least, to hear my own voice & lyrics being beamed down from outer space via satellite radio (to California the homeland of the writer and vocalist) knowing millions of people who know this song have absolutely NO idea where and who this manifesto originates from. To the multitude of plagiarists who have used my work without credit and pay, who disrespect the presence of a human element on a dance track (primarily created by software generated beats). I beg of you, if you're so great, please PLEASE release So Get Up as an instrumental and see how far it goes [][][] 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 [][][][][][][][] Written (& vocalized) by Ithaka Darin Pappas ©1993 [][][] Note: 1200 musical compositions using Ithaka's original vocal poem have been recording during the last two and a half decades recorded by: Cosmic Gate, Jay Dabhi, Armin van Buuren, Armin van Buuren México, Technoboy, Zatox, Tuneboy, Meat Katie, FuturePlays, Maik Ibane, Pagano, Samir Kuliev, Razat, Micromakiиe, Gu'Brian, Trolley Snatcha, DJ & Liveact cab.thomas, Atmozfears, Dani Sbert, Igor Carmo, Koozah, Damien Blaze, Carloshp, Heatbeat, Hardwell, Plusculaar, DJ Mike Steventon, Andrea_Doria, Dino Lenny, Steve Hill, Technikal, Hardstyle Connection, DJ Maziano, Phunk Investigation, Dj Kryst-Off Aka Zornéus, AlexBass, Mowree, MERT YUCEL Miss Kittin, K-TraxX, Fatboy Slim, Derek Marin - Derek M, Mole Listening Pearls [][][] So Get Up 25th Anniversary

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

"So Get Up" performed live in Acapulco, Mexico (Easter 2017)

 

"So Get Up" performed live in Acapulco 

"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

"So Get Up" - Cosmic Gate featuring Ithaka

Through ‘Wake Your Mind’s title, Nic & Bossi had communicated a belief in border-free electronic music to fans. Its message was embraced by untold thousands of clubbers and music lovers around the world, subsequently turning into a groundswell movement. The #WYM tag was widely adopted as the abbreviation-of-choice for those wishing to display a more flexible/less tribal outlook to electronic music.

Throughout late 2013 and early 2014, Cosmic Gate added other significant dimensions to Wake Your Mind, further spurring the #WYM effect. Following rave receptions to a string of sold out Wake Your Mind In Concert gigs they launched WYM Records. Attached to the Armada Label group, it was conceived as a home for freethinking, no-borders music, which was immediately underlined this by its first release. Winning widespread praise from the press, ‘So Get Up’ - featuring the 1993 original lyrics and vocals by Californian rapper-poet, Ithaka - was seen by both fans and the media alike as an (aptly) bold ‘new-avenues’ musical exploration by Cosmic Gate. 

Source: https://www.insomniac.com/artist/cosmic-gate

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'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.