So Get Up (source: Wikipedia)
| "So Get Up" |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
- Sweatlodge, Kaos, Tribal, Twisted Records (U.S.), Twisted Records (UK), Plastic City,Armada Music, kontor records, 24 Records, Skint, Bosphorus etc.
|
| 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
German Trance 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]
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.
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) [26]
