Planet Ithaka: lyricist

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Friday, December 12, 2025

"Moments of Insanity" by Ithaka Darin Pappas

https://www.amazon.com/Moments-Insanity-Part-Ravenshark-Chronicles/dp/B0BV4CSN23

A young American expat paddles his surfboard to an uninhabited Atlantic island off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, in search of adventure, but questions his own mental stability.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BV4CSN23
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sweatlodge Publishing
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 5, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 65 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8376066768
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.15 x 8 inches
Book 4 of 6 ‏ : ‎ Ravenshark Chronicles

Ithaka Darin Pappas (nacido el 8 de julio de 1966), conocido profesionalmente como Ithaka, es un artista multidisciplinario estadounidense de ascendencia griega que crea utilizando la música, la escritura, la escultura y la fotografía (tanto como entidades independientes como en combinación). Es autor de una colección de poemas y relatos, titulada Ravenshark Chronicles, publicada en revistas y periódicos internacionales, que en ocasiones han servido de base para su lírica de viajes. En 2025, el periódico Expresso afirmó que las letras de Ithaka, «Olvida el pasado, sal a la calle, diviértete», son palabras que, en algún momento de los años 90, tuvieron tanto impacto mundial como la famosa expresión de Timothy Leary: «Enciende, sintoniza, abandona». En un artículo de 2005 para la revista Waves, el periodista Ricardo Macario describió a Ithaka como «El Hombre Misceláneo». En una reseña de 2008 del sexto álbum de Ithaka, Saltwater Nomad, la plataforma de cultura surf en línea Surfline afirmó que "el artista transita sin esfuerzo y con facilidad entre todos sus medios de expresión elegidos [música, escultura, escritura y fotografía]", y que "el viaje de su vida es un acto de equilibrio conmovedor en algún lugar entre los mundos de la creación eufórica y la diversión acuática"

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

Friday, May 16, 2025

Ithaka "Ninety-Eight in the Shade"

"Ninety-Eight in the Shade" from Ithaka's 5th album Saltwater Nomad (Sweatlodge Records). Produced by Tito Gomes, Recorded at Studio Fibra in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Friday, June 26, 2020

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

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Flowers And The Color Of Paint - Ithaka

Although written and vocalized in the English language by Ithaka Darin Pappas, a southern-Californian, this record (his debut album) was recorded in Lisbon, Portugal (where the artist lived from 1992-1998) and where, to most, this is considered a 'Portuguese' album.

This record appeared in the middle of a new movement known as Hip Hop Tuga (hip hop made in Portugal). Many hip hop tuga artists were from former colonies of Portugal in Africa such as; Cape Verde, Mozambique and Angola - and Ithaka was not considered an outsider with this national and international group of lyricists/vocalists.

The recordings include guest appearances by many of the best young performers working in Portugal at that time, such as General D and Marta Dias. The album was very well received by the media, being nominated nominated for three Blitz Premios (Portuguese equivalent to the Grammy): "Best New Artist", "Best Male Vocalist" and "Best Album". And in a 1999 retrospective of Portuguese music by the national newspaper Publico, "Flowers And The Color Of Paint" was considered one of the most important "Portuguese" albums of the 1990s.

The record is perhaps best known internationally because of the track, Escape From The City Of Angels, which came to public light when award-winning film director Antoine Fuqua used the song in his movie "The Replacement Killers" during a sequence featuring critically acclaimed actors Mira Sorvino, Chow Yun fat and Clifton Collin Jr.

Thursday, June 22, 2017

"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

Sunday, May 7, 2017

So Get Up, Escape From The City Of Angels

ithaka: SO GET UP, ESCAPE FROM THE CITY OF ANGELS (featuring Marta Dias)

https://www.facebook.com/SoGetUp// "SO GET UP, ESCAPE FROM THE CITY OF THE ANGELS" (lyrics/vocals by: Ithaka)

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

For more Ithaka lyrics see: http://ithakalyrics.blogspot.com

ithaka "ESCAPE FROM THE CITY OF ANGELS" (featuring Marta Dias) from The Replacement Killers soundtrack - wth lyrics.

lyrics / voice: ithaka
chorus voices: marta dias

bass: francisco rebelo
trumpet: nuno reis

produced by: pedro passos & joe fossard

Escape From The City Of Angels
was recorded at Namouche Studios
located in Lisbon, Portugal in 1995
and originally appeared on
Ithaka's debut album
Flowers And The Color Of Paint.

The album was nominated for
three Blitz Awards (the Portuguese
equivalent of the Grammy) in the
categories of: Best Album,
Best New Project and Best Male Vocalist.

And in an end-of-decade retrospective
of national music, the prestigious
newspaper Publico considered
Flowers And The Color Of Paint
to be one of the ten most influential
'Portuguese' albums of the 1990's.

In 1997,
acclaimed Hollywood director
Antoine Fuqua
used the song in the soundtrack
for his feature film
The Replacment Killers
[released by Columbia Pictures]
starring;
Mira Sorvino (academy award winner)
Chow Yun-fat (academy award nominee)
and several other known actors such as
Clifton Collins Jr. and Michael Rooker.

Because of difficulties in obtaining rights to
some of the other songs appearing in The
Replacement Killers, there was not an official
soundtrack release for the film.

The original pressing of
Flowers And The Color Of Paint
by Movieplay Records was only 1500 copies.
Ironically, despite the song's obvious cult
status with literally millions of illegal
downloads around the globe, the label
has never made a second issue of the album.

All licensing inquiries for
"Escape From The City Of Angels" by Ithaka
should be directed to Scion Four Music (NYC).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka_ (musician)

Monday, April 24, 2017

So Get Up (lyrics)

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

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
@_ithaka_

So Get Up (Lyricist Quotes)

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

Ravenshark Music/Scion Four Music/ASCAP

Album: So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas

Saturday, April 8, 2017

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/

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Ithaka: "Who Made The Grass Green?" [Album: So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas]

Ithaka:

"Who Made The Grass Green?"

Evolution is a fact,

it's been proven true.

But who provided the first cell

that split in two?

Who made the grass green?

The sky and the sea blue ?

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Ithaka Darin Pappas © 1992

Written in Lisbon Portugal (1992)
Recorded in Manchester (1993)

Album: So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas

[Sweatlodge Records]

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Friday, March 10, 2017

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).

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Ithaka (Recording Artist) - Bio on Discogs

Source Discogs:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/468212-ITHAKA
Ithaka was born in Southern California. The half-Greek poet, vocalist and producer lived in Lisbon for a number of years in his late-twenties until early-thirties. There in Portugal (in 1993), he wrote and recorded a poem entitled So Get Up for a program on Radio Comercial, Lisbon. He later rerecorded it for a local progressive-house music project called Underground Of Lisbon (the finished song was also called, So Get Up). It was soon released internationally on a multitude of compilations.

Until today, almost 25 years later, the track is considered one of the most important musical exports in Portugal's history. Although in fact, the lyric-writer and voice of this iconic dance music anthem is a Californian of Greek descent.

So Get Up has since been remixed and re-released over a thousand times, with some versions by large scale EDM artists such as Armin Van Buurin, Cosmic Gate, Fatboy Slim and Miss Kittin. So Get Up is the current Guinness World Record holder for most re-mixed acapella.

Also in Portugal, Ithaka recorded two award winning hip-hop albums, Flowers And The Color Of Paint (1995) and Stellafly (1997). His song, Escape From The City Of Angels (featuring Marta Dias) from the album Flowers And The Color Of Paint was featured in Antoine Fuqua's first full-length feature film entitled, The Replacement Killers (1998) starring Chow Yun Fat and Mira Sorvino

Ithaka then returned to the U.S. for a number of years where he recorded Somewhere South Of Somalia (2001) with LA producer, Conley Abrams III.
The song, What U Gotta Do, from this album was featured in the soundtrack of the hit video game NBA2K7.

He later lived in Brazil (Rio and AkahtiLândia) for over ten years where he recorded three more albums, Recorded In Rio (2004), Saltwater Nomad (2007) and Voiceless Blue Raven (2013)...and also released a collection of career highlights called Fishdaddy Flashbacks (2011) with the Indy label Sweatlodge Records.

Although rarely returning to the dance music world since recording So Get Up,
in 2007, Ithaka wrote the lyrics and vocally recorded "You" with DJ Vibe, using his poem originally entitled, We Are The Players.

In early 2017, Ithaka released a collection of acapella poems including the original pre-Underground Sound Of Lisbon 1993 demo-version of So Get Up.
The album, entitled, So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas, was compiled using lost vocal poems from 1993 and new recordings made in Mexico City in 2016.

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

Saturday, January 21, 2017

Ithaka: Somewhere South Of Somalia

Somewhere South Of Somalia

There are many things one could criticize about hip hop. And what to one is worth of criticism is what the other actually appreciates. So when we write here, that hip hop is lacking concepts that run through the whole album, that are keeping an album together and make it distinguishable as such, then others will disagree and say, they just want a couple of tracks that keep their head nodding. And when we state that hip hop has the potential to reach a lot of people on deep and important levels, then other people will go, that hip hop is coming from the streets and should be made for the streets, and a deeper meaning would neatly fit somewhere dark, and somewhere where we usually sit on.

Whatever the case, Ithaka was not content with just putting a couple of tracks together, put 'em on a disc, call it an album and call it a day. When he was travelling Kenya and Tanzania, it inspired him. Inspired him to write about escapism, write about what he saw in those place, with his eyes, but also what his soul saw in the presence of other people's experiences, lives and struggles. Or how he calls it: "live it, write about it, rap about it". Hence this is one of the cases where a rap record is using its potential; talking to people and to bring a story across, easier and better, than any other genre of music is able to. And hence "Somewhere South Of Somalia" is deserving our props, as the courageous record it is, that's dwelling into the depth of something, that comes as close to travel journal as it can get.

And for this project, Ithaka teamed up with producer Conley 'Conman' Abrams, who's responsible for all the beats that back Ithaka up, who in his travels takes us into the trapped lands of tribal folklore, elitists foreigners or epidemics, collecting them in a musical ethnographic report. That starts out with Ithaka going into areas where the question is a unbelieving "So You're Going There?" commenting his plans. The reason why it is necessary to step out the regular shackles of society is expressed on "What U Gotta Do", before the physical travel to Africa is just as much a mental and psychical adaptation, what is dizzyingly shown by "My Mind & My Body". With "Snakes In The Rafter" the finish line of the first leg is reached, with us then meeting up with "Rana Linda (I Can Make A Difference)" who is a war photographer. This track features Izrael, of Cell-mob, who's handling the sung chorus. "Ugly American" is the next meeting with someone, this track portraying one of the still imperialistic thinking people, taking away all what's still good, untouched an innocent in this area. However, things catch up to him, what you can hear on "Dear Hillary". More anthropological topics are discussed on "Black Rock", before "Lapis Lazuli" is kept spoken word, with Izrael returning for the chorus.

Moving on to the tribal religions, "Visit With Nagawa" is once more having us meet a native, this time a suspect person that knows about spells. Entering a language course, "Upendo" is having us listen to Swahili, with Cassande Luchembe whispering the words in our excited ears. Then the streets are explored on "River Road", as we hear that some of the unwanted adventures can be rather similar there to here. Keeping the story progressing, "Nawaga's Revenge" is talking about the symptoms of Malaria. The last person we then meet is "Nwajuma", before our mind is again drifting off into "My Mind & My Body Reprise", as it's trying to take in, process and understand all what was experienced on this album.

With us now knowing what travel we are accompanying, it's interesting what kind of beats are coming along too. They are often on some unlocated style, that is keeping things in vibes of years ago. That can then sound 'heard before' like on "Dugout Canoe", or rather progressive like "Visit With Nagawa". It's also having some elements, that remind us of world music, of reggae, of Caribbean sounds, of African styles. Hence we are needing a decent amount of tolerance to get with it.

What then makes it necessary to talk about the album in a more regular kind of way: this album is on the beat tip not the strongest, and lyrically, the nomadic wanderer Ithaka (aka visual artist and writer Ithaka Darin Pappas) is not the most skilled as well, as much of his eloquence is getting lost, with the story being forced into rhyming patterns. But that's merely unfortunate, as the goal of this record can never be to reach an audience that just wants a good time pumping something to bob the head, or keeping the music low like in an elevator. That'd be unfair to the record, and that needs to taken into consideration. Hence what makes this record good is the patience and respect for a misunderstood continent, that's telling the story, and that is making this album a narrated book. Hence this gets a lot of respect from our side, a lot of props for the willingness to do something hard and exhausting, that will never get as much acclaim as it actually deserves.

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"
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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

Monday, October 24, 2016

Ithaka & Club Altas: Red Bull Music Academy Culture Clash Lisbon (October 20th 2016)

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Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas) recently provided vocals for Club Atlas, founded by members of Buraka Som Sistema, who proved victorious at the Red Bull Music Academy's Culture Clash Lisbon 2016. Among the vocal contributions were "Altas Intro" and his legendary global dance music a capella "So Get Up".

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

ithaka - "Twenty Years Ago Today" (video)

"Twenty Years Ago Today" (unreleased)

An early poem I wrote on my twentieth birthday,

later recorded in Manchester in late 1996 (I think).

The video was shot and directed by Yadira Pascault Orozco at

at Parque Nacional Desierto de los Leones

near Mexico Cityin January 2016.

Edit and shadowman: Ithaka

Ithaka songs are published exclusively by Scion Four Music - NY.

INSTAGRAM: @_ithaka_

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Monday, June 23, 2014

Vocalist WEILAND in Echo Park, California 1994

Very rare photograph of Scott Weiland in 1994

at his home in Echo Park, California.

The photo and graphic treatment

were made by contemporary artist, Ithaka.

Usage: Back cover of the

European music magazine, Super Som.

IG: @_ithaka_

https://www.facebook.com/Ithakafoto

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Scott Weiland (born Scott Richard Kline^[1] on October 27, 1967) is an American musician, lyricist and vocalist. During a career spanning three decades, Weiland is best known as the former frontman for the successful rock band Stone Temple Pilots, as well as the supergroup Velvet Revolver from 2003 to 2008. He has also established himself as a solo artist, releasing three studio albums, a cover album, and collaborations with several other musicians since 1995.

Weiland's onstage persona is known as being flamboyant and chaotic; he is also known for constantly changing his appearance and vocal style, as well as his use of a megaphone in concert for vocal effect.^[2] While viewed as a talented and versatile vocalist,^[3] Weiland's career has been plagued by substance abuse, as well as several arrests. Weiland has been ranked in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader (No. 57).