"Plastic Wings" Ana Mariano featuring Ithaka

"Plastic Wings" Ana Mariano featuring Ithaka

(from the E.P. Everything I Touch - 2020)

Recorded at Namouche Studios in Lisbon, Portugal

Keith Morris & Ithaka Darin Pappas talk shop and rare NWA photographs

Punk legend Keith Morris (Circle Jerks, Black Flag, OFF!) talks with artist/photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas about photographing Eazy E, NWA, Ice Cube work and how he began to begin working for the pioneering record label Priority Records in the late 1980's. Los Angeles 2018

"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

Ithaka "Voiceless Blue Raven" Album Cover

Cover for Ithaka's all instrumental album called, Voiceless Blue Raven. 

                        © 2013

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MasMaMastering by:  by: Pete Lyman at Infrasonic - Los Angeles

Photograph by João Barbosa
Graphic design by" Charles Park

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VOICELESS BLUE RAVEN : Volume One

 C   Californian-born songwriter, Ithaka, has spent the majority of his musical career as a vocalist/lyricist, but recent years have found the multi-faceted nomadic expressionist spending more and time with the composing, construction and recording of the music itself. Voiceless Blue Raven (his 7^th full-length release) represents the integral transition from being a backseat musical collaborator on his early vocal releases in the mid-1990's, gradually evolving into a progressive, cutting-edge ambient hip hop producer and sonic craftsman.

Ithaka, (who is also contemporary artist, photographer and writer), currently divides his time between Southern California and Recanto Akahti, his jungle-shack art and music studio in AkahtiLândia, Brazil [state of São Paulo].

1. Coffin Alley Confinement

written & produced by ithaka at coffin alley studio - california

2. Punch Drunk Syrup Suckers

written & produced by ithaka at recanto akahti - akahtiLândia, brazil

3. Peace Palace Porridge

4. Swamp King

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5. Roula’s Revenge

6. Monday In Mongaguá

7. Red Gravel

8. Dine N Dash (instrumental version)

9. Seabra Is Mad (instrumental version)

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10. Betty’s Feathers

11. Brother Barstow (instrumental version)

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12. Jungle Shack Dementia

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13. Who’s The Enemy ? (instrumental version)

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14. Blackstar Canyon

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15. Afternoon In Lagoa

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16. Technically A Failure (instrumental version)

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17. Same Room Blues (instrumental version)

18. ‘N Portugal (instrumental version)

19. I Ride (RnR instrumental version)

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20. Stingray Shuffle (intrumental version)

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21. What I Ask Of Myself

         

CYNCY - "Sometimes Life Gets In The Way" [produced by Ithaka]

Debut single by 76 year old trip hop lyricist/vocalist, Cyncy.

(produced by Ithaka for Sweatlodge Records).

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"SOMETIMES LIFE GETS IN THE WAY"
Lyrics by Cyncy ©2012 Sweatlodge Records

Life gets in the way.
Life gets in the way.

Dreaming Dreams, making plans
in the hope of happiness.

All is good, going strong...
then, life gets in the way.

Life gets in the way.
Life...life gets in the way.

Just wanted the perfect one,
share the perfect life.
But the one I chose,
not true to me.

My dreams, my plans,
my joys of life now gone, all gone.

Yes, sometimes life gets in the way.

Now time goes on
and the past is past.
What was done is done, free at last.

Picked up the pieces, began again -
life goes on.

Sometimes, life gets in the way.

Life gets in the way.
Life get in the way.

Life gets in the way.
Life gets in the way.