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.
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.
