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

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

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

Armin Van Buuren featuring Ithaka (A State Of Trance)

                                 "So Get Up" Armin Van Buuren featuring Ithaka 

In 2013, twenty years after it was first written and recorded, trance legend Armin Van Buuren re-introduced Ithaka's iconic EDM vocal poem So Get Up (The End Of The Earth) to a new generation by playing a version by Cosmic Gate on his popular global A State Of Trance radio program and featuring it on his mix album A State Of Trance 2013 (Armada Records).

Ithaka Darin Pappas: writer vocalist of the apocalyptic, So Get Up

In March of 1993, a demo version of So Get Up was recorded in Manchester, United Kingdom with producer Simon Bradshaw. And later, in February of 1994, Ithaka was invited to rerecord the poem for the B-Side of the first vinyl release of Underground Sound Of Lisbon on Kaos Records, Portugal. It was an almost instant national hit and soon released (along with an acapella version) internationally by Tribal (USA), a subsidiary of Stuart Copeland's IRS Records in New York.

Interestingly, although the poem was written and vocalized by Ithaka a year before ever meeting Underground Sound Of Lisbon, no public vocal credit was included on those first releases.

The USL version and the new remixes by Junior Vazquez and Danny Tenaglia were quite popular themselves (selling at least 50,000 units) but because an acapella was included in these major distributions, literally hundreds of new mixes appeared in just a few years. Many producers simply changed the title (sometimes not) and put the entire vocal on their own instrumentals and called it their own.

The vocal acapella has also been released under the titles; "Get Up", "Get Up Go Insane", "So Get Up Atom Bride", "The End Of the Earth", "Next Life", "See You In The Next Life", "Intro", "Headcharge" and "Hardventure"

The vocal itself has never had a sonic style specifically associated with it, it has kept changing it's clothes and modernizing itself with the times.

The spoken-word acapella was originally read on-air on top of an instrumental version of a Naughty-By-Nature hip hop song, and this UK demo version is a mid-tempo electro-style track,. The vocal never had a sonic style specifically associated with it,
it has kept changing it's clothes and modernizing itself with the times.

The USL, Tenaglia and Junior Vazquez versions were progressive and tribal house

And since then have versions have appeared in almost every avenue of global electronic music such as; Trance, Dubstep, Drum & Bass, Big Beat, Trip Hop, Tech House, Electronic Art Rock etc.

Groups, producers and DJs that have released So Get Up inculude; Derek Marin, Peter Bailey, Pagano, Ben Gold, Eric Kupper, Cosmic Gate, Armin Van Buuren, Ricardo Diaz, Nixu Zsun, Oxia (France), Mert Yucel (Turkey), Igor Carmo (Portugal), Miss Kittin (Germay), Public Domain (Holland), Fat Boy Slim (Norman Cook) UK, Stretch & Verne (UK), Lexington Avenue, Damage People, Mirabeau, Ma-Beckerfield, FuturePlays (from Mexico), Dj Screw (Thailand), Djz Rom (Cambodia), Technoboy (Italy), Frankyeffe (Italy), Maik Ibane, Murt Yucel (Turkey), Mowree (Italy), Razat (Portugal), Tuneboy (Italy), K-Traxx (Italy), Dylan Hilsley (UK), DJ Vibe, Cee Cee Lee (Italy), Alex Di Stefano, etc etc etc.

As of December 2016, with a staggering 1129 documented and released mixes, So Get Up is considered "The Most Remixed Vocal Acapella In Musical History" by the Guinness World Records.

"So Get Up" © 1993 Ithaka Darin Pappas
Published by Ravenshark Music/Scion Four Music (NY)/ASCAP

Lack Of Vocal Credit In EDM by Raj Dabral (EX: "So Get Up" by Ithaka)

So Get Up (the poem)...NOT by Cosmic Gate - NOT by Underground Sound Of Lisbon. I am currently writing an article for EDMania Magazine (Brazil) about the lack of lyric and vocal credit in dance music (even though some of our music is very lyrical indeed). After six-weeks of research, the example (of hundreds) that most repeatedly keeps hitting me in the head is SO GET UP !. One of the most used vocals in the history of music (ALL music). 

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: 

 

ithaka "So Get Up" (2016 Presidential Election Acappella Mix)