Ithaka "The Day Was Hot" produced by Mario Caldato (Beastie Boys)

 Ithaka "The Day Was Hot" produced by Mario Caldato (Beastie Boys)

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https://open.spotify.com/track/3U3NZM... Ithaka's "The Day Was Hot" (produced by Mario Caldato Jr.) was included on the 1998 compilation called Tejo Beat released by Nortesul Records (Portugal) in association with Antena 3 radio and Expo 98 (The 1998 World's Fair). The track was vocalized written by Ithaka Darin Pappas (lyrics) with music by Arkam Hi-Fi who selected the vinyl samples. There was also a live bass played by the famous Portuguese musician/producer Carlos Barretto. Mario Caldato Jr. has produced albums by the Beastie Boys, Seu Jorge, Jack Johnson, Marcelo D2 (Brazil), etc etc. Lyrics by: Ithaka Darin Pappas published by Ravenshark Music/ASCAP/North Music Group (USA) Did you ever kill anyone? Not exactly. The day was hot, too hot for fun Ninety-eight in the sun, One twenty-one in the sun Boarding down to a job interview Unemployed, no that not new At red light, Pico/Fairfax Laid homeless drunk in my path Wrinkled face, big beard and belly Peacefully passed out, kind of smelly Dinosaur-breath, lion-like snore Dreams all night liquor stores Roasting like Christmas turkey Soon to become a stick of hobo-jerkey THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT TOO HOT FOR FUN NINETY-EIGHT IN SHADE, ONE-TWENTY-ONE IN THE SUN COULD’VE SAVED HIS LIFE, KNEW THAT I COULD SHOULD’VE SAVED HIS LIFE, KNEW THAT I SHOULD BUT SOMEONE ELSE’LL HELP (WHO ) GOT TIME TO KILL GOTTA GET THIS JOB, GOTTA PAY MY BILLS THE DAY WAS HOT, THE DAY WAS HOT Meeting for 3:00, was 2:15 Time (enough) to be Samaritine Don’t get involved, (I) thought, ain’t my business It wadn’t my fault, god be my witness Could’ve dragged him out of the sun Into the shade of some nearby shrub Someone’ll help (who) got time to kill But got to get this job to pay my bills Light turned green, I’m on my way But for big-belly drunk not a good day The job, the job, the job had been taken It’d been for nothing that I’d been baking THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT TOO HOT FOR FUN NINETY-EIGHT IN SHADE, ONE-TWENTY-ONE IN THE SUN COULD’VE SAVED HIS LIFE, KNEW THAT I COULD SHOULD’VE SAVED HIS LIFE, KNEW THAT I SHOULD BUT SOMEONE ELSE’LL HELP (WHO ) GOT TIME TO KILL GOTTA GET THIS JOB TO PAY MY BILLS THE DAY WAS HOT Hour later, back at the corner Now taped off in yellow border In the middle man still asleep But now his snores and dreams ceased He done run out of his life’s lease And while I dazed in confused thought They put him in a truck and hauled him off Like a dead dog with no tag Nameless, buried in vagabond rags His old leather face I will never forget Another debit on my karmic debt THE DAY WAS HOT Missed my cue, life to save For big-belly drunk not a good day THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT TOO HOT FOR FUN NINETY-EIGHT IN SHADE, ONE-TWENTY-ONE IN THE SUN COULD’VE SAVED HIS LIFE, KNEW THAT I COULD SHOULD’VE SAVED HIS LIFE, KNEW THAT I SHOULD BUT SOMEONE ELSE’LL HELP (WHO ) GOT TIME TO KILL GOTTA GET THIS JOB, TO PAY MY BILLS THE DAY WAS HOT, THE DAY WAS HOT Participam no disco: Cool Hipnoise, Da Weasel, Primitive Reason, Ithaka com Arkham Hi*Fi, Boss AC, Flood, Blasted Mechanism, Zen, Blind Zero e Ornatos Violeta. Editado em 1998, no âmbito da Expo ‘98, o disco é composto por temas inéditos, que exploram o hip hop, o rock alternativo, a electrónica e o ska. Henrique Amaro recordou o disco no 20º aniversário: • "Tejo Beat" | Henrique Amaro recorda ... STREAMING Spotify: http://bit.ly/SpotifyTejoBeat98 iTunes/Apple Music: http://bit.ly/Apple-TejoBeat98 Youtube: http://bit.ly/YoutubeTejoBeat98 ALINHAMENTO: 1. Intro: • Intro | Colectânea "Tejo Beat", 1998 ... 2. Cool Hipnoise – Change: • Cool Hipnoise - Change | Colectânea "... 3. Da Weasel – Produto Habitual: • Da Weasel - Produto Habitual | Colect... 4. Primitive Reason – Quando Uno Pisa Un Caracol: • Primitive Reason - Quando Uno Pisa Un... 5. Ithaka com Arkham Hi*Fi – The Day Was Hot: • Ithaka com Arkham Hi*Fi - The Day Was... 6. Boss AC – It's All Right: • Boss AC - It's All Right | Colectânea... 7. Flood – Viaje Universal: • Flood - Viaje Universal | Colectânea ... 8. Blasted Mechanism – Thick Tongue: • Blasted Mechanism - Thick Tongue | Co... 9. Zen – Air: • Zen - Air | Colectânea "Tejo Beat", 1... 10. Blind Zero – The Wire: • Blind Zero - The Wire | Colectânea "T... 11. Ornatos Violeta – Tempo De Nascer: • Ornatos Violeta - Tempo de Nascer | C... Produzido por Mário Caldato Jr., Mário Barreiros Ideia e Direcção artística: Henrique Amaro Gravado e misturado por Mário Caldato Jr., Mário Barreiros nos Estúdios Valentim de Carvalho em Paço de Arcos (Julho 1998)

NWA - The Miracle Mile Shot - by Ithaka Darin Pappas

In this short subject non-dialogue documentary, photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas reexamines "The Miracle Mile Shot", a picture he took of N.W.A. in 1988, that through the decades has become the defining image of N.W.A. in its prime. The photograph examined in the short, entitled "The Miracle Mile Shot", was made on November 11th 1988 and features Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy E, DJ Yella and MC Ren. The image began its existence being used as the official press image for NWA's triple-Platinum album, Straight Outta Compton (Priority Records). "The Miracle Mile Shot" is an individual photo from a series of pictures made that day (at the photographer's home apartment studio at 6516 1/2 Orange Street - Los Angeles) using a Hasselblad 500 CE camera with an 80mm lens and Norman lighting equipment. Throughout the decades, the image's relevance has continued to grow, being one of the only photos in existence clearly showing the faces of all members of the short-lived but highly influential group

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Neste breve documentário não dialógico, a fotógrafa Ithaka Darin Pappas reexamina "The Miracle Mile Shot", uma foto que ele tirou do N.W.A. em 1988, que através das décadas se tornou a imagem definidora do N.W.A. em seu auge. A fotografia examinada em breve, intitulada "The Miracle Mile Shot", foi feita em 11 de novembro de 1988 e apresenta Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy E, DJ Yella e MC Ren. A imagem começou a ser usada como imagem oficial da imprensa para o álbum Triple-Platinum da NWA, Straight Outta Compton (Priority Records). "The Miracle Mile Shot" é uma foto individual de uma série de fotos feitas naquele dia (no estúdio de apartamentos da fotógrafa 6516 1/2 Orange Street - Los Angeles) usando uma câmera Hasselblad 500 CE com lente 80mm e equipamento de iluminação Norman. . Ao longo das décadas, a relevância da imagem continuou a crescer, sendo uma das únicas fotos existentes mostrando claramente os rostos de todos os membros do grupo de curta duração, mas altamente influente.

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https://vimeo.com/338337187 - Fab 5 Freddy (VLADTV) Talks Eazy E Skateboarding in Venice in ‘89 - and the Ithaka Darin Pappas photos in Contact High Exhibit #NWA #THE MIRACLE MILESHOT tographer

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https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/ithaka-interview

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Ithaka "The Plot" Album: Fishdaddy Flashbacks

Ithaka "The Plot" Album: Fishdaddy Flashbacks

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ithaka "Swamp King" {Album: Voiceless Blue Raven]

ithaka "Afternoon In Lagoa" 

[Album: Voiceless Blue Raven]

written and produced by: ithaka

Recorded in Brazil - for Sweatlodge Records (Los Angeles)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/voiceless-blue-raven-vol-1/id630595720 

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

ithaka "Afternoon In Lagoa" [Album: Voiceless Blue Raven]

ithaka "Afternoon In Lagoa" 

[Album: Voiceless Blue Raven]

written and produced by: ithaka

Recorded in Brazil - for Sweatlodge Records (Los Angeles)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/voiceless-blue-raven-vol-1/id630595720 

 

 

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

ithaka "Peace Palace Porridge" [Album: Voiceless Blue Raven ]

ithaka "Peace Palace Porridge" 

[Album: Voiceless Blue Raven - Volume One]

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ithaka "Technically A Failure" (Album: Voiceless Blue Raven)

ithaka "Technically A Failure" (Album: Voiceless Blue Raven)

Same Room Blues - Directed by Ithaka Darin Pappas

Same Room Blues - a short film 

(based on the song Same Room Blues)

filmed in Rio de Janeiro in 2008.

Directed by Ithaka Darin Pappas for Sweatlodge Films

Ithaka's So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas - new album

 

In early, 2017, Los Angeles-based independent music label, Sweatlodge Records will release the seventh album by the Californian songwriter, Ithaka, entitled, So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas. The record will include thirteen of Ithaka's vocalized poems (without music), many of which were written during 1992 and 1993, two of the six years that the artist lived in Lisbon. Also, as a bonus track, the original 1993 demo-version of So Get Up will appear.


There in Portugal, Ithaka was regularly recited his texts and rhymes for the daily radio program, Quatro Bairro on the national station, Rádio Comerical. Ten of the poems offered on the Lost Acapellas release were written and recorded specifically for the radio program and later (in mid-1993) were rerecorded as voice-over and musical demos on a visit to England. These recordings, were missing for 23 years until recently being discovered in a Los Angeles storage unit on a antiquated cassette tape.


Among these early acapella poems is So Get Up, most recently re-popularized by Armin Van Buuren and Cosmic Gate, which today (twenty-four years and more than a thousand releases and adaptions later) is considered The Most Remixed Vocal Acapella In Musical History (by Guinness World Records - 2016, 2017).


Ithaka first wrote So Get Up in a small cafe in Amoeira near Rádio Comerical about an hour before going on air with it for his slot on Quatro Bairro, unfortunately this very first recording has never been recovered. He did however, as mentioned, record it a second time in the U.K - to present to radio producers and possibly record companies.


There working at Rádio Comerical, Ithaka met DJ Vibe (Portugal's most prominent DJ), who played an hour of progressive house music immediately following Ithaka's segments. There Vibe usually heard the end of Ithaka's vocal sequences and was intrigued by the poems. Some months later, he invited him to participate as a guest vocalist on the first release by Underground Sound Of Lisbon (a progressive house duo consisting of Vibe and Rui Da Silva) for Kaos Records.


They recorded Ithaka's vocal in the early hours of a rainy winter night at the garage studio, 1 Só Céu, owned by the Portuguese rock band called, Os Delfins.

Ithaka was told by Kaos (a micro label at the time) that they would make 200 white-labels vinyls for distribution within Portugal only. They paid him $70 dollars for his participation, with a verbal promise to discuss any future distributions and manufacturing that would possibly follow. And weeks later, from just that single white-label distribution, the song exploded into an almost instantaneous national dance floor classic.


Although open-minded musically, Ithaka was more associated with hip hop, surfing and contemporary art more than dance music and only infrequently appeared at the clubs his apocalyptic poem had literally become an anthem for an entire generation of club goers, inspiring even people who never liked dance music to get involved.


Ironically, Kaos Records and Underground Sound Of Lisbon themselves never made a point of explaining who the mystery prophet was and nobody seemed to ask, the press included - even though Ithaka was indeed the actual performer and owned 50% of the publishing.


"I remember specifically on a couple of occasions trying to get into Lisbon-area night clubs, which was always a chore because of the wait to get in, and there in line, two different times during height of the song's first wave of popularity, I could hear So Get Up playing on the dance floor...The first was at Frágil in Bairro Alto - and I said to the snob at the door, hey man, that's me, my voice...let me in.  And the doorman said, if that was you...I would know who you are AND I DON'T! - And the other time, a few months later, was at ALCÂNTARA, when I again declared that that was my voice with hundreds of people shouting the lyrics on top of it muffled behind the thick curtains out the dance floor..and that doorman said, Yes, my friend, and Elvis is still alive too!


In late 1994, Ithaka left Portugal for four months back to Los Angeles for an art exhibit - and during that short amount of time, Kaos Records had licensed So Get Up, without consulting him, to several international parties most notably Tribal Records -USA, a sub-subsidiary of Miles Copeland's I.R.S. Records (EMI).


Although Rob Di Stefano, the managing director of Tribal Records had met Ithaka on a previous trip to Portugal, and obviously understood he was from California and only temporarily residing in Portugal, he realized the marketing potential of an exotic 100% Portuguese house music product arriving in the U.S. for the first time and made no attempt to publicize the vocalist's true origins. No featuring Ithaka credit was ever included on any of the releases, even though he is both the author and the vocalist. Yes, this is dance music, but no matter how good or bad the production is, no one can deny that the vocal-poem and adjoining hooks are the primal guts of the entire So Get Up experience. How else could it possibly appeal to such a large musical spectrum of DJs and producers?


The first 1994 release of So Get Up on Tribal was a double-vinyl set with ten-mixes, including several versions by New York superstars Junior Vasquez and Danny Tenaglia. The early international popularity of So Get Up was undoubtfully manifested by these interpretations by Vasquez and Tenaglia. Two New York all-stars creating music around the words of a California hip hop wordsmith. To call So Get Up, even at that point, a 100% Portuguese release, was inaccurate at best.  The first release by Tribal, which sold upwards of 50,000 copies, also included an uncredited acapella of Ithaka's raw poem - which paved the way for a vast multitude of remixes and samplings over a huge cross-section of electronic musical genres.


 With the exception of Stretch & Verne's legally licensed rerecord "Get Up, Go Insane!" in 1997 (and subsequently Fatboy Slim's remix of that), every other international release of So Get Up has essentially been unauthorized. It is fair to say that every (of the more than a thousand mixes released) house, trance, techno, electro, drum & bass, big beat, dub step, and art rock versions - under their varying titles of "So Get Up", "Get Up", "Forget The Past", "the End Of The Earth", "Have A Blast", "Headcharge", "Hardaventure", etc. have been issued illegally. No record royalties or performance royalties have ever been paid to the vocalist/lyricist although all have been made using Ithaka's 1994 recording - made that late night way back when in Cascais, Portugal. By the most recent estimates of Ithaka's publisher attempting to recoup his writing shares, So Get Up in it's many incarnations has been either sold or downloaded more than 30,000,000 times and approximately 250,000,000 have at least heard the poem. Whether payment ever falls into the right hands, time will only tell.

Ithaka himself has had an unusual career (and life) to say the least. He came to recording not thru music itself, but via music photography, visual arts....and reading books. For nearly three years, among his many other sporadic occupations, Ithaka was the principal photographer for Priority Records gangster rap icons, NWA and Eazy E , but that's a story for another day.

In 1992, attempting to expand his boundaries outside of the Southern California area, the half-Greek, Ithaka Darin Pappas, set off soul-searching. He first relocated to Athens for six months and then spent a year in Tokyo, finally landing in Lisbon where he spent more than six years.

During this six-year period in Portugal, Ithaka was hyper-productive. He recorded So Get Up (and many other poems), made two award-winning hip hop albums, published translated poems and short stories in Portuguese magazines - and had several large scale sculpture exhibits of his work. He also photographically documented much of the early and mid-nineties Portuguese music scene, shooting record covers for rock, hip hop and EDM projects.

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Historic "So Get Up" Demo Found After 24 years

"SO GET UP" (1993 Demo) - Very rare 1993 demo version of the iconic electronic dance music vocal-poem "So Get Up". This lyric was originally written and recorded by Ithaka (aka: Ithaka Darin Pappas) in January 1993 for a Rádio Comercial Program in Lisbon.

In March of 1993, this Demo version was recorded in Manchester, United Kingdom with producer Simon Bradshaw. And later, in February of 1994, Ithaka was invited to rerecord the poem for the B-Side of the first vinyl release of Underground Sound Of Lisbon on Kaos Records, Portugal. It was an almost instant national hit and soon released (along with an acapella version) internationally by Tribal (USA), a subsidiary of Stuart Copeland's IRS Records in New York.

Interestingly, although the poem was written and vocalized by Ithaka a year before ever meeting Underground Sound Of Lisbon, no public vocal credit was included on those first releases.

The USL version and the new remixes by Junior Vazquez and Danny Tenaglia were quite popular themselves (selling at least 50,000 units) but because an acapella was included in these major distributions, literally hundreds of new mixes appeared in just a few years. Many producers simply changed the title (sometimes not) and put the entire vocal on their own instrumentals and called it their own.

The vocal acapella has also been released under the titles; "Get Up", "Get Up Go Insane", "So Get Up Atom Bride", "The End Of the Earth", "Next Life", "See You In The Next Life", "Intro", "Headcharge" and "Hardventure"

The vocal itself has never had a sonic style specifically associated with it, it has kept changing it's clothes and modernizing itself with the times.

The spoken-word acapella was originally read on-air on top of an instrumental version of a Naughty-By-Nature hip hop song, and this UK demo version is a mid-tempo electro-style track,. The vocal never had a sonic style specifically associated with it,
it has kept changing it's clothes and modernizing itself with the times.

The USL, Tenaglia and Junior Vazquez versions were progressive and tribal house

And since then have versions have appeared in almost every avenue of global electronic music such as; Trance, Dubstep, Drum & Bass, Big Beat, Trip Hop, Tech House, Electronic Art Rock etc.

Groups, producers and DJs that have released So Get Up inculude; Derek Marin, Peter Bailey, Pagano, Ben Gold, Eric Kupper, Cosmic Gate, Armin Van Buuren, Ricardo Diaz, Nixu Zsun, Oxia (France), Mert Yucel (Turkey), Igor Carmo (Portugal), Miss Kittin (Germay), Public Domain (Holland), Fat Boy Slim (Norman Cook) UK, Stretch & Verne (UK), Lexington Avenue, Damage People, Mirabeau, Ma-Beckerfield, FuturePlays (from Mexico), Dj Screw (Thailand), Djz Rom (Cambodia), Technoboy (Italy), Frankyeffe (Italy), Maik Ibane, Murt Yucel (Turkey), Mowree (Italy), Razat (Portugal), Tuneboy (Italy), K-Traxx (Italy), Dylan Hilsley (UK), DJ Vibe, Cee Cee Lee (Italy), Alex Di Stefano, etc etc etc.

As of 2016, with a staggering 1129 documented and released mixes, So Get Up is considered "The Most Remixed Vocal Acapella In Musical History" by the Guinness World Records.

"So Get Up" © 1993 Ithaka Darin Pappas
Published by Ravenshark Music/Scion Four Music (NY)/ASCAP

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.

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