"Entonces Levantate" (So Get Up) el poema mundialmente famoso de Ithaka Darin Pappas

El fin de la tierra está sobre nosotros

Muy pronto todo se convertirá en polvo

Entonces levantate

Olvidar el pasado

Sal y diviértete

Viaja mil millas en un avión a reacción

Sal de tu mente, vuélvete loco

A un lugar en el que nunca has estado antes

Come helado o lamerás el suelo

Porque el fin de la tierra está sobre nosotros

Muy pronto todo se convertirá en polvo

Adiós mis amigos

Adiós mundo

Te veré en la próxima vida

© 1992 Ithaka Darin Pappas

Libro de poemas disponible para comprar en este enlace:

https://www.amazon.fr/-/en/Ithaka-Darin-Pappas-ebook/dp/B0BMX3N5HG/

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

Ithaka Darin Pappas - O 'Americano Feio' ? (PÚBLICO) So Get Up

PÚBLICO - Suplemento Pop-Rock (Quinta-feira 10 Abril 1996)

excerto do artigo, O Americano Feio? por Jorge Dias 

O greco-americano Ithaka Darin Pappas participou em "So Get Up" dos USL e assinou o album, "Flowers And The Color Of Paint". Estão certamente entre os projectos mais fortes da música de dança feita em Portugal nos anos 90s. Entretanto, Ithaka viajou pelos Estados Unidos e o seu nome ficou um pouco esquecido. Até agora quando regressa a Lisboa para pôr em causa as sua antigas ligações.

Pappas "versus" USL-Kaos

Ithaka Darin Pappas passou alguns meses em Los Angeles, cidade de onde é natural e onde fez algums contactos para conseguir um "manager" e um advogado. "Fui aos Estados Unidos porque havia uma séria de problemas a resolver aqui. Um deles foi que fiz un disco em 1994 com os Underground Sound of Lisbon [USL] e, quando o gravámos, foi uma coisa entre amigos, estavamos a fazer arte em conjunto e foi uma coisa boa. Fiz um acordo verbal com eles segundo o qual receberia 25 mil escudos (approx. 120 €) por mil discos que fossem lançados em Portugal. Nunca se falou de contratos nem de distribuição no estangeiro."

Desde então, "So Get Up" – que era originalmente o lado B do maxi que tería por tema principal "Dance With Me" – fez furor nos Estados Unidos, para onde o disco foi enviado, transformando os USL, de que fazem parte Rua da Silva (Doctor J) e Tó Pereira (DJ Vibe), no projecto de "dance music" nacional mais aclamado a nivel internacional.

"O tema entrou para as 'charts' e foi lançado em muitos paises, mas eles não reconheceram a minha participação. Apesar de muitas das remisturas que foram feitas – principalmente as de Danny Tenaglia e Junior Vasquez, as mais populares- practicamente só reterem as minhas palavras e a minha voz. Nessa ponto é questionável quem é realmente o artista. É o Ithaka? Ou são os USL? Quando se 'descartaa a musica original e faz outra é questionável. É que não sou membro dos USL….?", diz Ithaka. E acrescento: "Pode perguntar-se a quem se quiser, nos Estados Unidos ou em Portugal, o que é que indentifica a canção: são as palavras. Neste tipo de música, que há numeras versões diferentes, a etiqueta são as palavras. A canção é o poema."

Dai que Ithaka reclame direitos de interpretação – "royalties", uma vez que os direitos de autor lhe pertencem por direito – sobre os lucros com "So Get Up". É que o poema a que Ithaka dá voz no "intro" do tema tinha sido escrito seis meses antes de ser convidado para juntar-se aos USL, depois de estes o terem ouvido numa emissão do programa Quatro Bairro, da Rádio Comerical. Segundo António Cunha, da Kaos, editora dos USL – e depois de o PÚBLICO ter marcada uma entrevista com Rui da Silva que acabou por não acontecer-, "o que passa é a vlha história de negócio da música: quando as coisas têm sucesso há sempre alguema tentar aproveitar-se".

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

PUBLIC - Pop-Rock Supplement (Thursday, April 10, 1996) excerpt from the article, The Ugly American? by Jorge Dias The Greek-American Ithaka Darin Pappas participated in "So Get Up" by USL and signed the album, "Flowers And The Color Of Paint". They are certainly among the strongest dance music projects made in Portugal in the 90s. Meanwhile, Ithaka traveled through the United States and his name was somewhat forgotten. Until now, when he returns to Lisbon to question his old connections. Pappas "versus" USL-Kaos Ithaka Darin Pappas spent some months in Los Angeles, the city where he is from, and where he made some contacts to get a manager and a lawyer. "I went to the United States because there were a number of problems to solve here. One of them was that I made a record in 1994 with Underground Sound of Lisbon [USL], and when we recorded it, it was a thing between friends, we were making art together and it was a good thing. I made a verbal agreement with them according to which I would receive 25,000 escudos (approx. €120) for every thousand records released in Portugal. There was never any talk of contracts or distribution abroad." Since then, "So Get Up" – which was originally the B-side of the maxi-single whose main track would be "Dance With Me" – has been a sensation in the United States, where the record was sent, transforming USL, which includes Rua da Silva (Doctor J) and Tó Pereira (DJ Vibe), into the most internationally acclaimed national "dance music" project. "The song entered the charts and was released in many countries, but they didn't acknowledge my participation. Despite many of the remixes that were made – mainly those by Danny Tenaglia and Junior Vasquez, the most popular – practically only retaining my words and my voice. At that point, it's questionable who the real artist is. Is it Ithaka? Or is it USL? When you 'discard' the original music and make another one, it's questionable. I'm not a member of USL…," says Ithaka. And I add: "You can ask anyone you want, in the United States or Portugal, what identifies the song: it's the words. In this type of music, which has numerous different versions, the label is the words. The song is the poem." That's why Ithaka claims performance rights – "royalties," since the copyright belongs to him by right – on the profits from "So Get Up." The poem that Ithaka sings in the song's "intro" was written six months before he was invited to join USL, after they heard him on a broadcast of the program Quatro Bairro, on Rádio Comercial. According to António Cunha, from Kaos, USL's publisher – and after PÚBLICO scheduled an interview with Rui da Silva that ended up not happening – "what's happening is the old story of the music business: when things are successful, there's always someone trying to take advantage."

So Get Up (lyrics)

"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

https://www.facebook.com/SoGetUp/
https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ithaka2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Get_Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj8Ci4ZKFu8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW24QOQDPFY
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