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
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Tuesday, March 21, 2017
"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
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
"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.
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
"SO GET UP" - Video With Lyrics
Ironically after hearing the voice for nearly 12 years, I only recently discovered the source of this iconic dance festival anthem. It was written (and vocalized) in 1993 by a Greek-Californian from Los Angeles, Ithaka (aka Ithaka Darin Pappas), a well-known contemporary artist, writer/poet and producer, who musically is more associated with hip hop and trip hop.
Obviously, the true identifying factor of all 1150 trance, house, big beat, drum & bass, grabber and dubstep mixes of the absolutely iconic So Get Up are the timeless lyrics and animated vocal of Mr. Pappas.
Does any of this even matter?
Personally I despise rap music, but are we so wrapped up in our electronic wonderland not to show at least a little love to a poet, whose work as been heard by more people around the world than have ever read Emerson ?
PS: Another IIthaka song, Escape From The City Of Angels ((hip hop) debuted in acclaimed film director Antoine Fuqua feature movie The Replacement Killers and is considered a true underground hip hop classic:
Monday, December 12, 2016
The Lack Of Vocal Credit In EDM by Raj Dabral (Ex: "So Get Up" by Ithaka)
Ironically after hearing the voice for nearly 12 years, I only recently discovered the source of this iconic dance festival anthem. It was written (and vocalized) in 1993 by a Greek-Californian from Los Angeles, Ithaka (aka Ithaka Darin Pappas), a well-known contemporary artist, writer/poet and producer, who musically is more associated with hip hop and trip hop.
Obviously, the true identifying factor of all 1150 trance, house, big beat, drum & bass, grabber and dubstep mixes of the absolutely iconic So Get Up are the timeless lyrics and animated vocal of Mr. Pappas.
Does any of this even matter?
Personally I despise rap music, but are we so wrapped up in our electronic wonderland not to show at least a little love to a poet, whose work as been heard by more people around the world than have ever read Emerson ?
PS: Another IIthaka song, Escape From The City Of Angels ((hip hop) debuted in acclaimed film director Antoine Fuqua feature movie The Replacement Killers and is considered a true underground hip hop classic:
Friday, December 9, 2016
- So Get Up - Ithaka (The voice)
So Get Up (source: Wikipedia)
| "So Get Up" | |||
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Lyricist/Vocalist, Ithaka
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| Single by Ithaka with mixes by USL, Miss Kittin, Cosmic Gate etc. | |||
| Released | 7 July 1994 | ||
| Format | 12", CDS, Downloads | ||
| Recorded | 14 June 1993, 1 Ceu Só Estudios, Portugal |
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| Genre | Spoken word, Ambient, House Music, progressive house, Electro house, Trance Music, Uplifting trance, Drum and bass, Breakbeat, Dubstep, Synthpop, UK garage, Techno, Trip hop, Hip hop, Art rock | ||
| Length | varying lengths | ||
| Label |
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| Writer(s) | Lyrics Ithaka Darin Pappas publisher= Ravenshark Music/Scion Four (NY)ASCAP, (original music) Rui Da Silva, DJ Vibe | ||
| Certification | G | ||
So Get Up, written and vocalized by Ithaka, is a 1993 spoken-word Electronic dance music vocal-poem more frequently credited to the Portuguese house music production duo Underground Sound of Lisbon and the GermanTrance music duo, Cosmic Gate.
LYRICS: 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.
Although Ithaka's poem vocal was written and first recorded in 1993 for a program called "Bairro Quatro" on Rádio Comercial in Lisbon, the initial musical element backing the poem was created in 1994 by DJ Vibe & Doctor J aka Underground Sound Of Lisbon (or USL) [1] who invited Ithaka (at that time using an alias name, Korvowrong) to rerecord the poem as a guest vocalist on their first release. Ithaka Darin Pappas lived and recorded in Lisbon, Portugal from 1992-1998.
USL's original 12" Progressive house mix of So Get Up was 9 minutes and 22 secs long, and was released as the B-side of the "Chapter One E.P". In Portugal this was released by Kaos Records, and worldwide by Tribal UK and Twisted Records (U.S.). It became a major Portuguese dance music "national anthem" and influenced a large populace of Portuguese youth to get interested in house music, famous for Ithaka's shouting "So Get Up, forget the past, the end of the world is upon us! Pretty soon it will all turn to dust!"
In 1994, the UK edition of the single (now as A side), had several remixes by Danny Tenaglia and Junior Vasquez as well as an original mix and a cappella version. This first international edition sold approximately 50,000 copies.
Thru the last two decades, So Get Up under varying titles such as; "Get Up", "Get Up, Go Insane!", "The End Of The Earth", "Hardventure", Headcharge, "Forget The Past", etc has been remixed, sampled and released in a multitude of EDM styles on the records of; Fatboy Slim, Stretch & Verne, Oxia, Peter Bailey, Orion's Voice, JJ Mullor, Dani Sbert, Lexington Avenue, Dylan, Derek Marin, Public Domain, K-Traxx, Technoboy, Bob Ray & Van Dyuk, Ben Gold, Pelari, and many others.
In 2003, Miss Kittin used the entire "So Get Up" poem as part of the intro on her album Radio Caroline Vol.1.
In 2005, Kaos Records released a 10th Anniversary Edition of the single. The CD release included 8 different tracks:
Although some legal and registered re-mixes have been made of So Get Up, because an acappella was included in the first U.S. and U.K. releases on Tribal Records, rouge musical versions using the vocal have snowballed out of control. Hundreds of House, Trance, Techno, Rock, Dub-step and Grabber producers have simply placed the So Get Up vocal on their own instrumentals and called them their own (sometimes with subtle title changes but often just as "So Get Up"). To date there are now at least 1029 released remixes using the Ithaka Darin Pappas' original vocal recording - and as of late 2016, So Get Up now hold the distinction of being the most remixed vocal a cappella in musical history (Guinness World Record Holder 2016 [2]).
So Get Up by it's individual producers and djs has been played/performed at large scale dance parties around the global such as the Electric Daisy Carnival in New York (2016) as interpreted by Cosmic Gate.[3]
LYRICS: 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.
Although Ithaka's poem vocal was written and first recorded in 1993 for a program called "Bairro Quatro" on Rádio Comercial in Lisbon, the initial musical element backing the poem was created in 1994 by DJ Vibe & Doctor J aka Underground Sound Of Lisbon (or USL) [1] who invited Ithaka (at that time using an alias name, Korvowrong) to rerecord the poem as a guest vocalist on their first release. Ithaka Darin Pappas lived and recorded in Lisbon, Portugal from 1992-1998.
USL's original 12" Progressive house mix of So Get Up was 9 minutes and 22 secs long, and was released as the B-side of the "Chapter One E.P". In Portugal this was released by Kaos Records, and worldwide by Tribal UK and Twisted Records (U.S.). It became a major Portuguese dance music "national anthem" and influenced a large populace of Portuguese youth to get interested in house music, famous for Ithaka's shouting "So Get Up, forget the past, the end of the world is upon us! Pretty soon it will all turn to dust!"
In 1994, the UK edition of the single (now as A side), had several remixes by Danny Tenaglia and Junior Vasquez as well as an original mix and a cappella version. This first international edition sold approximately 50,000 copies.
Thru the last two decades, So Get Up under varying titles such as; "Get Up", "Get Up, Go Insane!", "The End Of The Earth", "Hardventure", Headcharge, "Forget The Past", etc has been remixed, sampled and released in a multitude of EDM styles on the records of; Fatboy Slim, Stretch & Verne, Oxia, Peter Bailey, Orion's Voice, JJ Mullor, Dani Sbert, Lexington Avenue, Dylan, Derek Marin, Public Domain, K-Traxx, Technoboy, Bob Ray & Van Dyuk, Ben Gold, Pelari, and many others.
In 2003, Miss Kittin used the entire "So Get Up" poem as part of the intro on her album Radio Caroline Vol.1.
In 2005, Kaos Records released a 10th Anniversary Edition of the single. The CD release included 8 different tracks:
Although some legal and registered re-mixes have been made of So Get Up, because an acappella was included in the first U.S. and U.K. releases on Tribal Records, rouge musical versions using the vocal have snowballed out of control. Hundreds of House, Trance, Techno, Rock, Dub-step and Grabber producers have simply placed the So Get Up vocal on their own instrumentals and called them their own (sometimes with subtle title changes but often just as "So Get Up"). To date there are now at least 1029 released remixes using the Ithaka Darin Pappas' original vocal recording - and as of late 2016, So Get Up now hold the distinction of being the most remixed vocal a cappella in musical history (Guinness World Record Holder 2016 [2]).
So Get Up by it's individual producers and djs has been played/performed at large scale dance parties around the global such as the Electric Daisy Carnival in New York (2016) as interpreted by Cosmic Gate.[3]
Contents
The "So Get Up" controversy
In
1993, Ithaka had originally written and recited the poem called So Get
Up (The End Of The Earth Is Upon Us) for his weekly segment of a radio
program called Quatro Bairro on Antena One in Lisbon, Portugal. The next
year he rerecorded it as a guest performer to be the primary vocal of a
B-Side single for the Portuguese dance music group called Underground
Sound Of Lisbon. The song became an instant national hit and was later
released internationally as a ten-mix, double vinyl set on New York's
Tribal Records (a subsidiary of I.R.S. Records/E.M.I. Records). The song
climbed to 8th place on the Billboard's Independent Dance Music Charts
for the U.K. – and number 52nd in the United States. Since 1995, the
song has been remixed over a thousand times including versions by such
greats as Fat Boy Slim, Junior Vasquez, Danny Tenaglia, Cosmic Gate
and has appeared on over fifty compilations with combined sales in the
millions. As the original music has been stripped away by each
succeeding producer, the only singularly unifying element of all 1000+
mixes is Ithaka's poem and his vocals. Ironically, the song which was
considered the first modern "Portuguese" musical export was released
without even a "featuring Ithaka" credit even though Ithaka, a
Californian who was only temporarily residing in Lisbon, was the primary
publishing rights owner of the track and never a member of the
Underground Sound Of Lisbon project. Reportedly no actual record
royalties were ever paid to Ithaka [4].
In 2013, German Trance superstars, Cosmic Gate, also excluded Ithaka's vocal/lyrical credit even though they licensed the entire So Get Up a cappella. Without a doubt, Cosmic Gate's version has become the biggest commercial success of So Get Up to date. It was featured on Armin Van Buuren's compilation A State Of Trance 2013, on Cosmic's Gate album Start to Feel(2014)[5], with additional mixes by Pelarli, Alex di Stefano and Ben Gold. It has been a festival favorite for the group since it's release, being performed at Amsterdam Dance Event, Electric Daisy Carnival, Ultra Music Festival and on Cosmic Gate's own world tour.
In 2013, German Trance superstars, Cosmic Gate, also excluded Ithaka's vocal/lyrical credit even though they licensed the entire So Get Up a cappella. Without a doubt, Cosmic Gate's version has become the biggest commercial success of So Get Up to date. It was featured on Armin Van Buuren's compilation A State Of Trance 2013, on Cosmic's Gate album Start to Feel(2014)[5], with additional mixes by Pelarli, Alex di Stefano and Ben Gold. It has been a festival favorite for the group since it's release, being performed at Amsterdam Dance Event, Electric Daisy Carnival, Ultra Music Festival and on Cosmic Gate's own world tour.
Track list
- So Get Up (original mix)
- So Get Up (Junior's Factory mix; remix – Junior Vasquez)
- So Get Up (Danny's "In The Light We Sleep" mix; remix – Danny Tenaglia)
- So Get Up (King-Size mix - King-Size)
- So Get Up (Eric Kupper's Tribalectro mix; remix – Eric Kupper)
- So Get Up (Low End Specialists mix; remix – Low End Specialists)
- So Get Up (Mert Yücel DeepXperience mix; remix – Mert Yucel)
- So Get Up (Dan Robbins Three Dimension mix; remix – Dan Robbins)
Remixes/uses/sampling
Documented
uses of vocal & poem, So Get Up [by Ithaka Darin Pappas ©1993] in
modern music appearing under varying titles. Poem was originally
recorded for Radio Antenna 1 in Lisbon, Portugal in 1993. However, most
musical versions stemmed from uses/sampling of the a cappella
version that was recorded for Underground Sound Of Lisbon in Portugal,
1994. Note: This list includes both legal and unauthorized uses.
- 1994 Orion's Voice – "The Next Life": original mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) [6]
- 1994 Sarasite – "The End Of The Earth": Jatzzup mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Melody Maker Records, Italy[7]
- 1994 Sarasite – "The End Of The Earth": Patrick P.d.j. Tribal mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Melody Maker Records, Italy[8]
- 1994 Sarasite – "The End Of The Earth": M.C. Hair New Wave Vibrations mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Melody Maker Records, Italy[9]
- 1995 Public Domain – "So Get Up" : Jeremy mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) BZRK Records, Netherlands [10][11]
- 1995 Public Domain – "So Get Up" : Dr. Phil's mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) BZRK Records, Netherlands[12]
- 1995 Public Domain – "So Get Up" : original mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) BZRK Records, Netherlands[13]
- 1997 Stretch & Verne – "Get Up, Go Insane !" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Spot On Records - U.K.
- 2000 Fatboy Slim aka Norman Cook – Fatboy Slim's Greatest Remixes - "Get Up, Go Insane!"[14] (lyrics, vocals) Priarity Records
- 2000 Atlantis ITA – See You In The Next Life : original mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Overodose Records, Germany[15]
- 2000 Atlantis ITA – See You In The Next Life : Dj Scot Project remix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Overodose Records, Germany[16]
- 2002 K-Traxx – "Hardventure": original mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Titanic Records, Italy [17]
- 2003 Orion's Voice – "The Next Life": original mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Re-Fuel Records, Netherlands[18]
- 2003 Orion's Voice – "The Next Life": Origin Unknown remix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Re-Fuel Records, Netherlands[19]
- 2012 Derek Marin – "The End Of The Earth" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals)[20]
- 2013 Bob Ray & Van Dyuk – "So Get Up" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals)[21] Elektrobeats Records
- 2013 Cosmic Gate – "So Get Up" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) [22] - (Germany)
- 2014 Igor Carmo – "So Get Up" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals)[23] Nervous records
- 2014 Swing Kings – "The End Of The Earth" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) [24] Orange Groove Records
- 2014 JJ Mullor, Dani Sbert – "So Get Up" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals)[25] Supermarket Records
- 2015 Razat - "Get Up" Bombastic Bootleg Remix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals)
- 2016 Club Atlas - "So Get Up" Red Bull Culture Clash Mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals)
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