Paraiso - Danny Tenaglia "So Get Up"

Paraíso will premiere at Lisbon’s independent film festival IndieLisboa this Sunday (4th May), and features “first-hand testimonies” from 38 contributors, many considered pioneers of Portuguese dance music. Among the contributors are former long-running Lux Frágil resident Yen Sung and ‘Touch Me’ hit-maker Rui da Silva. Danny Tenaglia also makes an appearance; he remixed Underground Sound of Lisbon’s era-defining classic ‘So Get Up’ (

written and vocalized by Ithaka Darin Pappas)and famously played at the Santa Maria da Feira medieval castle rave in 1994. The illuminating 78-minute film maps out a dance music movement that took root in the early ‘90s during the emergence of rave culture. Knitted together from hours of never-before-seen home footage, Paraíso takes viewers backstage at parties and straight to the heart of 5,000-person raves in castles. The extensive VHS archives were amassed from private collectors and national broadcasters Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) and Sociedade Independente de Comunicação (SIC). https://djmag.com/news/new-documentary-explores-90s-rave-culture-portugal