Nic Chagall on "So Get Up" [Magnetic Magazine]

"What we would like to get across through 'Start To Feel' is that electronic music doesn't need to always start and stop at the drop. It doesn't have to be all about that 60 seconds. We love that type of music. If we didn't we wouldn't have made tracks like 'So Get Up' and a dozen others. But those are start points to Cosmic Gate's music. Not end ones." -

Nic Chagall (Cosmic Gate) - Jun 27, 2014 - Magnetic Magazine

http://www.magneticmag.com/2014/06/album-review-cosmic-gate-start-feel-now-armada/



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"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

Hannah DeuPree on "So Get Up" [Magnetic Magazine}

With some of the most powerful combo-trance tracks in EDM culture, Cosmic Gate is back with another banger track, "So Get Up" on their brand new label: Wake Your Mind Records.  

So Get Up is a powerful, earth moving large track which first premiered on Armin Van Buuren's A State of Trance radio show, and has been a highly anticipated release ever since.

This track has it all, from progressive hyper-infectious pitch bent synths and electro-house influenced quick-fire drops to trance driven EQ-driven peaks- all which surround the never-forgotten vocals that stream melodies through your mind.

Journalist: Hannah DeuPree - Sep 25, 2013 - Magnetic Magazine

http://www.magneticmag.com/2013/09/edm-release-cosmic-gate-so-get-up-file-under-trance/

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"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

Flux BPM on "So Get Up"

Alex Di Stefano is the new artist in the tech trance scene that makes serious waves with dark thumping basslines, full on techy grooves and magnificent breakdown that utilize the vocal samples and the synthy hooks in the finest fashion. The climax is rough and tough perfect to rock this universe and beyond.
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"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

Insomniac on "So Get Up"

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’ was seen by both fans and the media alike as an (aptly) bold ‘new-avenues’ musical exploration by Cosmic Gate. 

Source: https://www.insomniac.com/artist/cosmic-gate

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"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

Hugh Lurcott - on So Get Up - Daily Beat

Hugh Lurcott - Daily Beat

"Those who know their house history will instantly recognize the vocals from the underground house/progressive that made waves over the Portuguese clubbing scene in 1994. Cosmic Gate leave them much intact, using them to dramatic effect."

Journalist: Hugh Lurcott
Daily Beat: September 23, 2013

Source: http://daily-beat.com/cosmic-gate-so-get-up/

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"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

So Get Up - Portugal's Big Break

A ground breaking song in many ways for both Portugal and beyond. This marked a major push forward for the Iberian dance music world. Elevating Underground Sound Of Lisbon (and Portuguese dance music) to a true international level.
This particular track was a collaboration between the progressive house talents of U.S.L. (DJ Vibe & Rui Da Silva) and a Greek-American songwriter and vocalist from Los Angeles, called Ithaka.

Ithaka (who lived in Portugal 1992-1998) wrote this vocal-poem originally for his daily segment of a program called “Bairro Quatro” on Rádio Comercial in Lisbon – in early 1993. It was first recited live on the radio, then a few months later recorded as a Kraftwerk-inspired musical demo in the UK. This version was not released until 2017 (So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas).
However in late 1993, USL invited Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas) to appear on the B-Side of a single they were doing to launch their new label, Kaos.
Ithaka showed up at the studio with a book full of lyrics, but So Get Up rose above the others.
And from this 3rd recording of So Get Up (and its subsequent release of an acapella on a multi-disc 12" vinyl-set), most remixes and other derivative tracks have been spawned.
Some of the more known remixes have been by: Junior Vasquez, Danny Tenaglia, Lexicon Avenue, Fatboy Slim, Miss Kittin, Cosmic Gate etc.
To date there are well over one-thousand documented releases, mixes and bootlegs of So Get Up under varying titles such as “Get Up”, “Insane”, “Get Up, Go Insane!”, “Next Life”, “See You In The Next Life” “The End Of The Earth”, “Hardventure”, “Headcharge”, “Belther”, “Last Resurrection”, “PPF (Past Present Future)”, “Intensity”, “Forget The Past”, “Trance Line”, etc





Ithaka, recording his vocal-poem So Get Up.

SO GET UP - Cosmic Gate (Lyric Genius)

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The lyrics of this track - and indeed the vocal itself - are by the Californian poet and artist, Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas).

It was originally written and recorded in early 1993 for a program on Rádio Comercial in Portugal (where Ithaka briefly resided) and about a year later, he was invited to re-record it with the progressive house act, Underground Of Lisbon.

USL had much success with their version of the song, never giving vocal and lyrical credit to the creator (and claimed it as 100% 'Portuguese') even though only on one or two mixes, of over a thousand versions, is USL's music even present.

However, Ithaka's vocal & lyrics appear on 100% of the songs, but because USL released an unauthorized/un-credited acapella via Tribal/I.R.S. Records in New York (1994), this poem has anonymously permeated the dance music world and even become a kind of festival anthem.

Cosmic Gate's version brilliantly uses these profound words to an even greater impact - and larger audience. But once again, where is the vocal/lyric credit?

This is not a cover version, this is a remix of a 1993 Ithaka spoken-word poem.

https://genius.com/Cosmic-gate-so-get-up-lyrics

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Cosmic Gate's "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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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

The Eternal "SO GET UP" Gains Yet Another Life - 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. 

Source: https://www.insomniac.com/artist/cosmic-gate

Ithaka's SO GET UP Poem-Acapella Played By Legendary DJ - Armin Van Buuren

 

ARMIN VAN BUUREN (World #4 Top DJ) 

opened his historic vinyl set 

at the A State Of Trance Festival

with Ithaka's acapella poem "So Get Up" 

(Utrecht, Netherlands Feb.18th 2017)

 

VIDEO CLIP - ASOT UCRECHT

DJ VIBE - One Of The World's Eternal Best

António "Tó" Pereira, mais conhecido no mundo da eletrónica como DJ Vibe, é um artista que dispensa introduções em Portugal e também fora de portas. Vibe, natural de Lisboa, deu os seus primeiros passos dentro de uma cabine de DJ com apenas 15 anos e nunca mais parou desde essa altura.
O DJ já tocou lado a lado com grandes nomes da sua área, como,  por exemplo, Paul Oakenfold, Tony Humphries  Roger Sanchez e a sua eterna referência, Danny Tenaglia. O grande lançamento da sua carreira nacional e internacional ocorreu após a criação de uma parceria com outro famoso DJ/produtor português, Rui da Silva, que os elevou ao expoente máximo da música eletrónica de dança. Os Underground Sound of Lisbon, criados em 1993, influenciaram para sempre o verão de 1994 com o lançamento do seu êxito “So Get Up”, tema com vocais de Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas) e lançado pela editora de Rob di Stefano, Tribal USA. Vivia-se, então, o auge do denominado house tribal e o tema atingiu o primeiro lugar da  Billboard Club Chart.
Agora, DJ Vibe vê novamente reconhecido o trabalho de mais de duas décadas atrás da cabine, tendo ficado na 74ª posição da lista dos DJs mais populares de todos os tempos, elaborada pelo site Dash Berlin World. Para chegar a estes resultados, a publicação monitorizou os Top 100 da DJ Mag entre os anos de 1997 e 2012, tendo em conta os géneros dominantes e as posições dos DJs.
Confere o top 100 aqui.
Para além da carreira de DJ, Vibe é co-proprietário da editora Records, um estúdio de gravação e uma editora em Lisboa fundada em 1992 com António Cunha. O músico esteve ainda envolvido noutros projetos, como os LHT, NYLX, Sonic Hunters e Meco.

Por: Paulo Costa

Ithaka's - So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas (New Album)

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).

So Get Up - A Poem By Ithaka Darin Pappas

 

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).

In the future, the artist hopes to collaborate with some of the EDM producers that have previously mixed his vocal-literary works, perhaps without even knowing who had recorded them.