So Get Up (first written and recorded by Ithaka Darin Pappas in 1992) higher-frequency.com

Skrufff : When Touch Me topped the pop charts in 2001, that was almost the peak of dance music as far as crossing over to the mainstream is concerned, how was that whole experience ? Rui Da Silva : Having that hit gave me an identity which was not necessarily what my music was about, because I'd already been making underground dance music for over eight years before that from Lisbon, having great success with the records being played by everybody around the world. Skrufff : I looked up the lyrics... Rui Da Silva :The lyrics are so like 2001 they are scary, which is crazy because the track was first written and recorded Ithaka Darin Pappas, or Ithaka in 1992. He is an artist from LA who was living in Portugal at the time, he used to MC at the parties we used to throw in Portugal and at raves. He was also a poet and used to write loads of things, and I revisited his poem in late 1993 to put on a record and tried to give it more of a DJ Pierre feeling by repeating of the vocal. We pressed a couple of records onto vinyl and sent the record around the world, then it became a big hit all around. It still gets played everywhere actually. Last year I went to see a big DJ spin at Turmills and I was really looking forward to hearing him because I'd never heard him play and he opened with the 'So Get Up' accapella. I though 'Oh right, nothing changes'. Skrufff : Who was the DJ ? Rui Da Silva : John Creamer.

The End Of The Earth Is Upon Us, Pretty Soon It''' All Turn To Dust, So Get Up! ©1992 Ithaka Darin Pappas

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. The end of the earth is upon us Pretty soon it will all turn to dust Go a thousand miles in a jet airplane Go out of your mind go insane! To a place that you've never been before Eat ice cream or you'll lick the floor Because... The end of the earth is upon us Pretty soon it will all turn to dust Goodbye my friends Goodbye world I'll see you in the next life Written by: Ithaka Darin Pappas ©1992 (under international copyright) Published by: Ravenshark Music/ASCAP Administered by North Music Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Get_Up#/media/File:So_Get_Up_lyric_collage_by_Ithaka_Darin_Pappas.jpg

Legend Carl Cox drops Ithaka's "So Get Up" on BBC Essential Mix in New Castle (August 8th 2021)

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Carl Cox @ BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix (BBC Radio 1 Dance Weekend) (Shindig Presents, Times Square Newcastle, United Kingdom 2021-08-07) 2021-08-08

[1:15] Drunken Kong - Phoenix [ [TRONIC]]

[7:00] ID - ID

[10:00] ID - ID

[14:00] Niereich - Liam [ [OCTOPUS WAREHOUSE SERIES]]

[16:00] Rory Marshall & Latour - An Ode To The Rave

[18:00] Rory Marshall - Fierce [ [23RD CENTURY ME]]

[20:30] ID - ID

w/ Jeff Mills - The Bells [ [PURPOSE MAKER]]

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[28:00] ID - ID

[30:00] Vikthor & Elio Riso - Run To The Galaxy (Eric Powell Remix) [ [BUSH]]

[36:00] Cirez D - On Off [ [MOUSEVILLE]]

<b>w/ Ithaka - So Get Up (Acappella)</b>

[41:30] ID - ID

[46:00] Belocca & Iggy - Monkey Do [ [SELF RELEASED]]

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[54:00] Luca Morris & Mozzy Rekorder - Gypsy Woman [ [VIRGIN]]

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[1:01:30] Vikthor & Elio Riso - Soul & Trip [ [XELON]]

[1:05:00] Alan Fitzpatrick vs. Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard (Alan Fitzpatrick Fully Charged Mix) [ [FFRR]]

[1:10:30] Will Clarke - The Hymn [ [ALL WE HAVE IS NOW]]

[1:14:00] Dave Clarke - Thunder [ [DECONSTRUCTION]]

[1:17:00] Second Phase - Mentasm [ [R&S]]

[1:19:00] New Order - Blue Monday [ [FACTORY]]

[1:22:30] Jens Lissat - Brothers On Acid & Sisters Feel Love (Dub Mix) [ [STUDIO3000]]

[1:27:30] Jon Rundell - Can't Stop [ [REKLUSE]]

w/ Ultra Naté - Free (Acappella) [ [STRICTLY]]

[1:30:00] Carl Cox - PURE (El Rancho Mix) [ [23RD CENTURY ME]]

[1:35:00] ID - ID

[1:39:00] Horatio - Midnight Acid [ [SHODAN RECORDS]]

[1:44:00] Dubfire & Flug - Metanoia [ [DRUMCODE]]

[1:47:00] Rory Marshall - Wurk (All Day) [ [23RD CENTURY ME]]

[1:50:00] Yves Deruyter - Calling Earth (UMEK Bootleg)

[1:53:30] Paul Johnson - Get Get Down [ [RISE RECORDS]]

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So Get Up

 So Get Up written (and recited) by Ithaka Darin Pappas 1992 has become one of the most remixed vocal acapellas in modern history

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life - "So Get Up" by U.S.L. featuring Ithaka (Sound Factory N.Y. Club Charts)

U.S.L. with Ithaka (center) late 1993 in Portugal

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life

“This is the definitive history of the disc jockey, the most important figure in dance music. From the first records right up to today’s charts, the DJ has broken musical boundaries and changed music. The power of the DJ forged the modern record industry. His taste-making skills brought us rock ‘n’ roll and rhythm & blues. More recently the DJ has created many new genres: from northern soul, disco, dub & hip hop, to house, techno, garage & drum ‘n’ bass. And with visionary use of technology, the DJ has revolutionised the way music is made. This book traces the 90-year evolution of the DJ’s craft through exclusive interviews with the world’s most influential DJs, from Grandmaster Flash and Frankie Knuckles to Paul Oakenfold and Pete Tong. This is not just a book for trainspotters, yet it has details which will surprise even the most obsessive dance fan. DJs are artists in their own right. They take music further. For the first time the DJ’s full story has been told”. Published in 1999 by Headline, written by Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton. All the following ‘Club Charts’ are from the back of the book, and are in alphabetical order.

Club Charts
Sound Factory Top 50

Compiled by Rob Di Stefano

o African Dreams – It All Begins Here
o Aphrohead – In the Dark We Live
o Black Traxx – Your Mind is so Crazy
o Cajmere – Percolator
o Carey, Mariah – Dreamlover
o Doomsday – Atom Bomb
o Doop – Doop
o DSK – What Would We Do? (Farley & Heller’s Eight Minutes of Madness)
o E G Fullalove – Divas to the Dancefloor
o East Village Loft Society – Manhatten Anthem
o Factory Kids – I’m Simian Dammit!
o First Choice – Doctor Love
o Frank Ski – Tony’s Bitch Track
o Gaines, Rosie – Exploding All Over Europe
o Happy Mondays – Stinkin’ Thinkin’ (Junior Style Mix)
o Headrush – Underground
o Hed Boys – Boys & Girls
o Holder, Nick – Erotic Illusions
o Houston, Whitney – I’m Every Woman
o KC Flight – Voices
o Kiwi Dreams – Y?
o Kristine W – Feel What You Need
o Lectroluv – Dream Drums
o Lectroluv – Struck by Love
o Lidell Townsell – Nu Nu
o Lidell Townsell – Get With You
o Livin’ Joy – Dreamer
o Madonna – (all tracks)
o Martin, Billy Ray – Your Loving Arms
o Mitchell, Vernessa – Reap
o Moraes – Welcome to the Factory
o Outdance – Reality
o Pascal’s Bongo Massive – Père Cochon
o Pollack, Karen – You Can’t Hurt Me
o Roxy – Get Huh
o Soundman – The Factory
o Sugarcubes – A Leash Called Love
o Tenaglia, Danny – Bottom Heavy
o Thompson Twins – The Saint (8th Street Dub)
o Tucker, Barbara – Beautiful People
o Underground Sound of Lisbon featuring Ithaka – So Get Up
o U2 – Lemon
o Van Helden, Armand – Witch Doctor
o Vasquez, Junior – X
o Vasquez, Junior – Get Your Hands Off My Man
o Waterlillies – Never Get Enough
o Williams, Melanie – Not Enough
o X Press 2 – Music X Press
o X Press 2 – London X Press
o Yo Yo Honey – Higher (DJ Pierre Mix)

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker/dj_saved_my_life.htm

1994 in Cascais, Portugal: Rui Da Silva (left) , ITHAKA and Dj Vibe (right) at Estudios Um Ceu Só. The poem "So Get Up" was originally written and recorded by © Ithaka Darin Pappas for a small live segment of the program called "Bairro Quatro" produced by Eduardo Guerra (and recorded by producer/DJ/sound engineer Pedro Costa) on Lisbon's Rádio Comercial in 1993

Cosmic Gate "So Get Up" (featuring Ithaka) appears in DJ MAG

“Indeed, the amount being paid to certain DJs is really high compared to recent years, but at the end of the day, the market is regulating the price.”

Have DJs' fees got out of hand?: 

“We think it has. As dance lovers we all should stay positive about it. After all, it’s better than only hip-hop or rock on the radio, right?”

Has dance music become the new pop?: 

“Little mice, so we can spy on what the results of this year's Top 100 poll will be!”

If you could be any animal, what would you be?: 

“Should DJs use a microphone? Should they dance? Should they use a laptop? In the end it’s up to the DJ to decide what’s right, and the audience decides by showing up to the gigs.”

Should DJs do "heart hands": 

“We definitely think we have a responsibility to show EDM and drugs do not necessarily belong together. On the other hand, people are responsible for their own life and choices.”

Do DJs have a duty to speak out about drugs?: 

“We’d really like our existing rider served up by Miley Cyrus and Kim Kardashian.”

Following extensive international tours on the back of the swathe of hits that came from their late 2011 'Wake Your Mind' album, German trance veterans Cosmic Gate returned this year with new singles 'Storm Chaser', 'Crushed' and 'So Get Up' written and vocalized by California artist, Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas). Nic Chagall and Bossi told DJ Mag it’s a matter of balancing their signature trance sound with the desire to move forward.
“It’s different styles all over again, but always with our signature that people can recognize. We don’t want to be predictable, we’d get bored doing the same things in a studio over and over.”
'So Get Up' was the first single on their new Wake Your Mind label, and it caps off what’s otherwise been a massive year of touring that’s seen them hosting festival stages in Australia, joining A State of Trance in Ibiza as residents, as well as staging several “Wake Your Mind in Concert” events, featuring guest vocalists to compliment the Cosmic Gate experience.
While the pair are supportive of the trance scene’s recent push towards old-school sounds, they maintain it won’t have a massive impact on their next album, that they’re currently working on. “We’ve been there already, and it wouldn’t feel right for us to go back to where it all started. We prefer to develop our sound by combining different styles to create something new."

 So Get Up lyricist/vocalist Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)

https://djmag.com/content/cosmic-gate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Get_Up
https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/so-get-up/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBLu-WD9A-edU7POS6jtRig
https://www.facebook.com/SoGetUp/

全智賢 전지현 - "So Get Up", The Song That Immortalized JUN JI HYUN

Ithaka's "So Get Up", The Song That Made JUN JI HYUN (全智賢 전지현) A Star

In 1999, after starring in her first feature film at the age of eighteen, (the little-watched White Valentine), Korean actress Jun Ji-Hyun was still largely unknown.

It was not until later that year when she starred in a hugely popular commercial for Samsung My Jet Printers featuring a remix of Californian songwriter Ithaka Darin Pappas' iconic 1993 vocal-poem song, So Get Up, that, according to most media sources, she became a a public sensation.

 

The version of So Get Up featured in the campaign (called "Get Up! Go Insane") was made by UK producers Stretch & Vern, who brought Ithaka to the UK to re-record his 1993 classic. The final result, restructured the vocal hook differently from the original, but the overall message was the same, So Get Up...and live life to the fullest ! This anthem of defiance and celebration was exuberantly communicated by Jun Ji-Hyun's dancing dance and attitude in the clip.

The commercial sky-rocketed her from being a relatively unknown actress to being a cultural youth icon for all of South Korea and beyond (and eventually one of Korea's biggest film and television stars).

Ji-Kyun has since gone on to star in Sassy Girl (when of the biggest films in Korean history), You Who Came from the Stars, and The Legend of the Blue Sea.
She has won several national and international awards for her acting ability.

*Note: Ithaka rerecorded his iconic 1993, So Get Up specifically for Stretch & Vern's mix (in the UK, 1996). This is one of the only authorized versions of So Get Up in 25 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf-4C7VYzEw
Also see; So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas

A Verdadeira História de "So Get Up", a Mais Remixed Acapella da História Musical

PÚBLICO - Suplemento Pop-Rock (Quinta-feira 10 Abril 1996)

excerto do artigo, O Americano Feio? por Jorge Dias 

O greco-americano Ithaka Darin Pappas participou em "So Get Up" dos USL e assinou o album, "Flowers And The Color Of Paint". Estão certamente entre os projectos mais fortes da música de dança feita em Portugal nos anos 90s. Entretanto, Ithaka viajou pelos Estados Unidos e o seu nome ficou um pouco esquecido. Até agora quando regressa a Lisboa para pôr em causa as sua antigas ligações.

Pappas "versus" USL-Kaos

Ithaka Darin Pappas passou alguns meses em Los Angeles, cidade de onde é natural e onde fez algums contactos para conseguir um "manager" e um advogado. "Fui aos Estados Unidos porque havia uma séria de problemas a resolver aqui. Um deles foi que fiz un disco em 1994 com os Underground Sound of Lisbon [USL] e, quando o gravámos, foi uma coisa entre amigos, estavamos a fazer arte em conjunto e foi uma coisa boa. Fiz um acordo verbal com eles segundo o qual receberia 25 mil escudos (approx. 120 €) por mil discos que fossem lançados em Portugal. Nunca se falou de contratos nem de distribuição no estangeiro."

Desde então, "So Get Up" – que era originalmente o lado B do maxi que tería por tema principal "Dance With Me" – fez furor nos Estados Unidos, para onde o disco foi enviado, transformando os USL, de que fazem parte Rua da Silva (Doctor J) e Tó Pereira (DJ Vibe), no projecto de "dance music" nacional mais aclamado a nivel internacional.

"O tema entrou para as 'charts' e foi lançado em muitos paises, mas eles não reconheceram a minha participação. Apesar de muitas das remisturas que foram feitas – principalmente as de Danny Tenaglia e Junior Vasquez, as mais populares- practicamente só reterem as minhas palavras e a minha voz. Nessa ponto é questionável quem é realmente o artista. É o Ithaka? Ou são os USL? Quando se 'descartaa a musica original e faz outra é questionável. É que não sou membro dos USL….?", diz Ithaka. E acrescento: "Pode perguntar-se a quem se quiser, nos Estados Unidos ou em Portugal, o que é que indentifica a canção: são as palavras. Neste tipo de música, que há numeras versões diferentes, a etiqueta são as palavras. A canção é o poema."

Dai que Ithaka reclame direitos de interpretação – "royalties", uma vez que os direitos de autor lhe pertencem por direito – sobre os lucros com "So Get Up". É que o poema a que Ithaka dá voz no "intro" do tema tinha sido escrito seis meses antes de ser convidado para juntar-se aos USL, depois de estes o terem ouvido numa emissão do programa Quatro Bairro, da Rádio Comerical. Segundo António Cunha, da Kaos, editora dos USL – e depois de o PÚBLICO ter marcada uma entrevista com Rui da Silva que acabou por não acontecer-, "o que passa é a vlha história de negócio da música: quando as coisas têm sucesso há sempre alguema tentar aproveitar-se".

So Get Up - Remixes Album Red

So Get Up (Bootlegs & Remixes: Volume Red)

Russia-based EDM label Moscow Mule, just released a 13-track bootleg & remix album of Ithaka's uber-classic So Get Up (more frequently credited to Cosmic Gate and company). The cd-album features progressive house, disco, hip hop rock, nu jazz, drum & bass and dubstep mixes by Razat, Swing Kings, Miss Kittin, Samir Kuliev, Derek Marin, Marcel, Dylan Hilsley, Pagano, Dave Seaman, Lexicon Avenue and Phunk Investigation - along with two acapella versions.

Executive Producer: Artyom Berezin 
Mastered By:  Vladmir Kuznetsov

Please note: This release was absolutely unauthorized by writer/vocalist Ithaka Darin Pappas, or anyone involved in creating these greats sonic works (we have certainly entered of new era of musical thievery).

SO GET UP" Ithaka & Miss Kittin - Intro Radio Caroline

 

In 2002, Miss Kittin, used Ithaka's iconic acapella poem combined with her own personal message to fans to open her 2002 album, Radio Caroline: Volume One

"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

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"SO GET UP"

THE END OF THE EARTH IS UPON US

PRETTY SOON ITLL ALL TURN TO DUST

SO GET UP FORGET THE PAST

GO OUTSIDE 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 YOULL LICK THE FLOOR

CUZ, 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

More information about So Get Up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Get_Up

https://www.facebook.com/IthakaBlue/


SO GET UP - lyrics and vocals by Ithaka.
Publishing: Ravenshark Music/Scion Four Music/ASCAP

See his new vocal-only album entitled
"So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas"
released by Sweatlodge Records.
https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ithaka2

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Also titled,
Ithaka's "So Get Up" vocals and lyrics have been used on tracks mixed by: Underground Sound Of Lisbon, Junior Vasquez, Danny Tenaglia, Orion's Voice, Sarasite, Committee, Public Domain, Stretch & Verne, Marcel, Fatboy Slim, Atlantis ITA, Ce Ce Lee, PC, Miss Kittin, K-Trax, High Voltage, Dyla, Mert Yücel, Eric Kupper, King-Size, Dan Robbins, Low End Specialists, Architect, Meat Katie, Phobia, Lexicon Avenue, Dave Seaman, Mowree, Sharp & Smooth, Alex Bass,  David Mimram, Phunk Investigation, DJ Zorneus, Lochness DJ Team, Maziano, Dantim, Seikos, Pathfinder, Andrea Doria & Dino Lenny, Philippe Rochard, Bart Skils, Hakan Sarigul, Derek Mari, Danny Garlick, Black Force, Armin Van Buuren, Hardwell, Cosmic Gate, Heartbeat, Bob Ray & Van Dyuk, Furio Levant, Koozah, Ben Gold, Pelari, Igor Carmo, Swing Kings,  JJ Mullor, Dani Sbert, Micromakine, Atmozfears, Acti & Antolini, TNT, Technoboy, Razat, Joseph LP, Alex Page, Feed, Lee Burridge, FuturePlays, Samir Kuliev, Armin Van Buuren, Rui Flip, Geometric Dark, Alex Di Stefano, Nell Silva, etc, etc, etc.

Thru the years, So Get Up Has been released by the labels: Armada Music [Netherlands], Wake Your Mind [Germany], Nervous Records [USA], Kaos Records [Portugal], Tribal Records [USA], Tribal Records [UK}, Twisted Records (U.S.), Twisted Records (UK), Plastic City [Germany], Sweatlodge Records [USA], Absolutely Records [Italy], Kontor records, 24 Records [Italy], Skint, Bosphorus Underground Recordings [Turkey], Chuvstvo Ritma Records [Russia], Black Hole Recordings [Netherlands], Elektrobeats Records [Italy], Forensic Records [UK], Mental Madness Records [Germany], Groove Records [Switzerland], Hymen Records [Germany], Trance Corporation Recordings [Spain], Titanic Records [Italy], Hardcore Maniacs [Spain], Party Label Unique Records [Netherlands], Desire Records [Portugal], Black Habitat Records, People Tech Records [Venzuela], HARDwithSTYLE Records [Netherlands], Subground Records [Italy], Memory Stick Records [Netherlands], Union Recordings [Poland], Supermarket Records, Orange Groove Recordings, Doctors Of Chaos Records [Italy], Next Cyclone Records [Italy], Elektrobeats Records [Italy], Digital+ Records [Spain], Bliss Point Records [Turkey], Activa Records [Italy], Afterglow Records [Germany], Sector Beatz [Switzerland], Re-Fuel Records [Netherlands], Fabric Records [UK], Dogmain Records [Portugal], PTP Records [Germany], Bit Music [Spain], Sys-X Records [Netherlands], Spot On Records [UK], Overodose Records [Germany], Lost Paradise Records, BZRK Records [Netherlands], Kontor Records, 24 Records [Italy], Skint, Renegade Hardware [UK], Melody Maker Records [Italy], Tronic [Sweden], Mole Listening Pearls [Germany], Refreshed [Germany], etc, etc, etc.

So Get Up and its derivitives have been written about by: Ariya Beitollahi, Ryan Farber, Steph Evans, Hugh Lurcott, Hannah DeuPree, etc.

For publications such as: Mix Max, Daily Beat, Insomniac, Earmilk,  DJ Maj, Mix Mag, etc

song: So Get Up

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So Get Up - Original Unedited Lyrics by: Ithaka Darin Pappas

"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"

THE END OF THE EARTH IS UPON US

PRETTY SOON ITLL ALL TURN TO DUST

SO GET UP FORGET THE PAST

GO OUTSIDE 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 YOULL LICK THE FLOOR

CUZ, 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

More information about So Get Up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Get_Up

https://www.facebook.com/IthakaBlue/


SO GET UP - lyrics and vocals by Ithaka.
Publishing: Ravenshark Music/Scion Four Music/ASCAP

See his new vocal-only album entitled
"So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas"
released by Sweatlodge Records.
https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ithaka2

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Also titled,
Ithaka's "So Get Up" vocals and lyrics have been used on tracks mixed by: Underground Sound Of Lisbon, Junior Vasquez, Danny Tenaglia, Orion's Voice, Sarasite, Committee, Public Domain, Stretch & Verne, Marcel, Fatboy Slim, Atlantis ITA, Ce Ce Lee, PC, Miss Kittin, K-Trax, High Voltage, Dyla, Mert Yücel, Eric Kupper, King-Size, Dan Robbins, Low End Specialists, Architect, Meat Katie, Phobia, Lexicon Avenue, Dave Seaman, Mowree, Sharp & Smooth, Alex Bass,  David Mimram, Phunk Investigation, DJ Zorneus, Lochness DJ Team, Maziano, Dantim, Seikos, Pathfinder, Andrea Doria & Dino Lenny, Philippe Rochard, Bart Skils, Hakan Sarigul, Derek Mari, Danny Garlick, Black Force, Armin Van Buuren, Hardwell, Cosmic Gate, Heartbeat, Bob Ray & Van Dyuk, Furio Levant, Koozah, Ben Gold, Pelari, Igor Carmo, Swing Kings,  JJ Mullor, Dani Sbert, Micromakine, Atmozfears, Acti & Antolini, TNT, Technoboy, Razat, Joseph LP, Alex Page, Feed, Lee Burridge, FuturePlays, Samir Kuliev, Armin Van Buuren, Rui Flip, Geometric Dark, Alex Di Stefano, Nell Silva, etc, etc, etc.

Thru the years, So Get Up Has been released by the labels: Armada Music [Netherlands], Wake Your Mind [Germany], Nervous Records [USA], Kaos Records [Portugal], Tribal Records [USA], Tribal Records [UK}, Twisted Records (U.S.), Twisted Records (UK), Plastic City [Germany], Sweatlodge Records [USA], Absolutely Records [Italy], Kontor records, 24 Records [Italy], Skint, Bosphorus Underground Recordings [Turkey], Chuvstvo Ritma Records [Russia], Black Hole Recordings [Netherlands], Elektrobeats Records [Italy], Forensic Records [UK], Mental Madness Records [Germany], Groove Records [Switzerland], Hymen Records [Germany], Trance Corporation Recordings [Spain], Titanic Records [Italy], Hardcore Maniacs [Spain], Party Label Unique Records [Netherlands], Desire Records [Portugal], Black Habitat Records, People Tech Records [Venzuela], HARDwithSTYLE Records [Netherlands], Subground Records [Italy], Memory Stick Records [Netherlands], Union Recordings [Poland], Supermarket Records, Orange Groove Recordings, Doctors Of Chaos Records [Italy], Next Cyclone Records [Italy], Elektrobeats Records [Italy], Digital+ Records [Spain], Bliss Point Records [Turkey], Activa Records [Italy], Afterglow Records [Germany], Sector Beatz [Switzerland], Re-Fuel Records [Netherlands], Fabric Records [UK], Dogmain Records [Portugal], PTP Records [Germany], Bit Music [Spain], Sys-X Records [Netherlands], Spot On Records [UK], Overodose Records [Germany], Lost Paradise Records, BZRK Records [Netherlands], Kontor Records, 24 Records [Italy], Skint, Renegade Hardware [UK], Melody Maker Records [Italy], Tronic [Sweden], Mole Listening Pearls [Germany], Refreshed [Germany], etc, etc, etc.

So Get Up and its derivitives have been written about by: Ariya Beitollahi, Ryan Farber, Steph Evans, Hugh Lurcott, Hannah DeuPree, etc.

For publications such as: Mix Max, Daily Beat, Insomniac, Earmilk,  DJ Maj, Mix Mag, etc

So Get Up (Cover Version) for International Womens Day

Final part in a series of International Women’s Day collaborative covers that include  an all-Lisbonite cover of Underground Sound Of Lisbon’s ‘So Get Up’ (featuring lyrics by Californian poet and hip hop artist, ITHAKA aka Ithaka Darin Pappas).

All donations when downloading tracks go to Equality Now, an NGO fighting for gender equality around the globe.

https://internationalwomensday.bandcamp.com/track/violet-x-bleid-x-caroline-leth-x-ednd-x-yen-sung-so-get-up-feat-belita-maria-amor-sonja-underground-sound-of-lisbon-cover

 

So Get Up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Get_Up

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.

Cosmic Gate's - "So Get Up" - The Poem & The Poet

In early, 2017, Los Angeles-based independent music label, Sweatlodge Records will release the seventh album by the Californian songwriter, Ithaka, entitled, So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas. The record will include thirteen of Ithaka's vocalized poems (without music), many of which were written during 1992 and 1993, two of the six years the artist lived in Lisbon. Also, as a bonus track, the original 1993 demo-version of So Get Up will appear.

There in Portugal, Ithaka was regularly invited to recite his texts and rhymes for the daily program, Quatro Bairro on the national station, Rádio Comerical. Ten of the poems offered on the Lost Acapellas release were written specifically for the radio program and later (in mid-1993) were rerecorded as voice-over and musical demos on a visit to England. These recordings were lost for 23 years until recently being discovered in a Los Angeles storage unit on a antiquated cassette tape.

Among these early acapella poems is So Get Up, most recently re-popularized by Armin Van Buuren and Cosmic Gate, which today (twenty-four years and more than a thousand releases and adaptions later) is considered The Most Remixed Vocal Acapella In Musical History (by Guinness World Records - 2016, 2017).

So Get Up was originally written and recorded by Ithaka for Quatro Bairro (Rádio Comerical), unfortunately this very first recording has never been recovered. He did however, as mentioned, record it a second time in the U.K - to present to radio producers and possibly record companies.

There working at Rádio Comerical, Ithaka met DJ Vibe (Portugal's most prominent DJ), who played an hour of progressive house music immediately following Ithaka's segments. There Vibe usually heard the end of Ithaka's vocal slots and was intrigued by the poems. Some months later, he invited him to participate as a guest vocalist on the first release by Underground Sound Of Lisbon (an EDM duo consisting of Vibe and Rui Da Silva) for Kaos Records. They recorded Ithaka's vocal in the early hours of a rainy winter night at the garage studio, 1 Só Céu, owned by the Portuguese rock band called, Os Delfins.

Ithaka was told by the label that they would make 200 white-labels vinyls for distribution within Portugal only. They paid him $70 dollars for his participation, with a verbal promise to discuss any future distributions and manufacturing that would possibly follow. And just weeks later, from just that single white-label pressing, the song exploded into an almost instantaneous national blockbuster.

Although open-minded musically, Ithaka was more associated with hip hop and street art than dance music and only infrequently appeared at the clubs his apocalyptic poem had literally become an anthem for an entire generation of club goers, inspiring even people who never liked dance music to get involved.

Ironically, Underground Sound Of Lisbon themselves never made a point of explaining who the mystery prophet was and nobody seemed to ask, the press included - even though Ithaka owned 50% of the publishing and was indeed the actual performer.

"I remember specifically on a couple of occasions trying to get into Lisbon-area night clubs, which is always a chore, and there in line, two different times, I could hear So Get Up playing on the dance floor...The first was at Frágil in Bairro Alto - and I said, hey man, that's me...let me in.  And the doorman said, if that was you...I would know who you are AND I DON'T! - And the other time..was at Alcatara, when I again declared that was my voice muffled behind the thick curtains out the dance floor..and that doorman said, Yes, my friend, and Elvis is still alive too!

In late 1994, Ithaka left Portugal for four months back to Los Angeles for an art exhibit - and during that short amount of time, Kaos Records had licensed So Get Up, without consulting him, to several international parties most notably Tribal Records (USA) a sub-subsidiary of Stuart Copeland's IRS Records (EMI).

Although Rob Di Stefano, the managing director of Tribal Records had met Ithaka on a previous trip to Portugal, and obviously understood he was from California and only temporarily residing in Portugal, he realized the marketing potential of an exotic 100% Portuguese house music product arriving in the U.S. for the first time and made no attempt to publicize the vocalist's true origins. No featuring Ithaka credit was ever included on any of the releases, even though he is both the author and the vocalist. Yes, this is dance music, but no matter how good or bad the production is, no one can deny that the vocal-poem and adjoining hooks are the primal guts of the entire So Get Up experience. How else could it possibly appeal to such a large musucal spectrum of DJ and producers?

The first 1994 release of So Get Up on Tribal was a double-vinyl set with ten-mixes, including several versions by New York superstars Junior Vasquez and Danny Tenaglia. The early international popularity of So Get Up was undoubtfully manifested by these interpretations by Vasquez and Tenaglia. Two New York all-stars creating music around the words of a California hip hop wordsmith. To call So Get Up, even at that point, a 100% Portuguese release, was inaccurate at best.  The first release by Tribal, which sold upwards of 50,000 copies, also included an uncredited acapella of Ithaka's raw poem - which paved way for a vast multitude of remixes and samplings over a huge cross-section of electronic musical genres.

 With the exception of Stretch & Verne's legally licensed rerecord "Get Up, Go Insane!" in 1997 and (subsequently Fatboy Slim's remix of that), every other international release of So Get Up has essentially been unauthorized. It is fair to say that every (of the more than a thousand mixes released) house, trance, techno, electro, drum & bass, big beat, dub step, and art rock versions - under their varying titles of "So Get Up", "Get Up", "Forget The Past", "the End Of The Earth", "Have A Blast", "Headcharge", "Hardaventure" have been issued illegally. No record royalties or performance royalties have even been paid to the vocalist/lyricist although all have been made using Ithaka's 1994 recording in Cascais, Portugal. By the most recent estimates of Ithaka's publisher attempting to recoup his writing shares, So Get Up has been either sold or downloaded more than 30,000,000 times and approximately 250,000,000 have at least heard the poem. Whether payment ever falls into the right hands, time will only tell.

Ithaka himself has had an unusual career (and life) to say the least. He came to recording not thru music itself, but via music photography, visual arts....and reading books. For nearly three years, among his many other sporadic occupations, Ithaka was the principal photographer for Priority Records gangster rap icons, NWA and Eazy E , but that's a story for another day.

In 1992, attempting to expand his boundries outside of the Los Angeles area, the half-Greek, Ithaka Darin Pappas, set off soul-searching. He first relocated to Athens, Greece for six months and then spent a year in Tokyo, finally landing in Lisbon where he spent more than six years.

During this six-year period in Portugal, Ithaka was hyper-productive. He recorded So Get Up (and many other poems), made two award-winning hip hop albums, published translated poems and short stories in Portuguese magazines - and also had several large scale sculpture exhibits. He also photographically documented much the early and mid-nineties Portuguese music scene, shooting record covers for rock, hip hop and EDM projects.