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.

"Portuguese" Acid House Movement Jump-Started By Californian Poet, Ithaka Darin Pappas

 

The Acid House Movement in Portugal 1991-1997

For 50 years Portugal lived under dark times dictated by Salazar’s right wing, conservative nationalist dictatorship. Portugal was isolated and closed off culturally to the world. That was until a new sound called Acid House arrived.

With a new generation too young to remember the dictatorship and too hungry to find their own cultural expression, it wasn’t until the late 80’s that Portugal started to breath the fresh air of democracy.

By the early 90’s this generation had started to carve out a future for themselves, calling upon new ideas and a visionary way desperate to fire up their life. As they discovered the sounds and spirit of electronic music, the pleasure of dancing under the stars became their new found freedom bringing with it, hope of a brighter future.

In 1994, with the re-introduction of an existing 1992 vocal-poem song called So Get Up* (by Californian songwriter, Ithaka Darin Pappas), the Underground Sound Of Lisbon and their track by the same name achieved true international recognition through distribution by Rob Di Stefano's Tribal America label, thus jump-starting the acid house movement both in Portugal and abroad. As the release was stealthily wrapped in graphics representing the Portuguese flag few people in U.S. realized that they were indeed purchasing a domestic product.

Regardless, to celebrate this history we are putting together an exhibition at the Red Gallery, documenting the Portuguese Acid House movement and the club culture scene, that came with it, across a variety of different mediums.

So Get Up Project/Exhibition is a collaboration between Red Gallery, renowned Portuguese DJ Rui Da Silva and Portuguese music journalist Joao Xavier, Editor of the first magazine documenting the Portuguese club culture.

We are in the process of gathering material which documents such days. Of particular interest are photographs of the time, flyers, posters and any other content that is relevant to those years. Some of the imagery will be familiar to many, while other pieces will be more obscure, and it’s this unique mix that will give this exhibition the edge.

The exhibition isn’t limited to printed content either, we are also interested in any films and documentaries which capture the essence of those special times, which are fascinating for fans of the scene and curious for newcomers alike, helping to make this a very well rounded and successfully curated show.

The type of material we are looking for is – films. Photographs, memberships, flyers, fashion clothing, poems, letters etc.

So Get Up is the next stop on the global journey documented by the Red Gallery bringing music, life and sub-cultures from around the world to east London music fans. It follows in the footsteps of exhibitions like After The Wall (Berlin), La Moved (Spain), French Touch, Soviet Hippies and Tokyo Punks.
The exhibition is scheduled for July 2018
email us on: callout@sogetup.com

* The 1992 vocal-poem song called So Get Up* (by Californian songwriter, Ithaka Darin Pappas) was originally read on Rádio Comercial, Lisbon and later recorded in Manchester, England with producer Darbis (early 1993). This poem is protected by U.S. Federal copyright law.

“So Get Up” - Acid House Dos Anos 90 em Londres

 

“So Get Up”: acid house dos anos 90 em Portugal é tema de exposição em Londres 

Uma exposição o acid house dos anos 90 em Portugal, a realizar em Londres no próximo ano, quer criar um arquivo para o estudo da época no país, afirmou um dos responsáveis, Rui da Silva.
O DJ português, radicado na capital britânica, considera que aquele período foi protagonizado pela primeira geração que nasceu depois do 25 de Abril e que rompeu com o isolamento que marcou o país em quase 50 anos de ditadura salazarista. "Encontrámos na música eletrónica uma voz e uma forma de libertação cultural", disse à agência Lusa.
O músico e produtor musical está agora a lançar um apelo a quem viveu aquela época para disponibilizar documentos e materiais representativos, sejam fotografias, vídeos, áudio, panfletos, ingressos para eventos, 'fanzines', capas de discos ou máquinas como caixas de ritmos e sintetizadores analógicos.

 Uma das imagens que pretende ter na exposição, a realizar no espaço Red Gallery, é a de uma festa no Castelo de Santa Maria da Feira, em 1993, que teve a presença do DJ norte-americano Danny Tenaglia. "Vê-se o castelo de fora, com as cores das luzes e as pessoas a dançar. Foi um dos momentos pivô da cena da música eletrónica em Portugal", garante.

 Para além da exposição na Red Gallery, em abril em Londres, vai haver um programa de eventos música e DJ ao vivo. 

Rui da Silva era então um dos elementos do projeto Underground Sound of Lisbon, formado com DJ Vibe, cujo título do sucesso "So Get Up" 
(com a voz e letra do californiano Ithaka Darin Pappas) lançado

 em 1994, é também o nome da exposição, prevista para abril do próximo 
ano. O responsável formou uma equipa com o jornalista João Xavier e criou um site 

para recolher material de pessoas que tenham vivido aquela época e queiram 

partilhar as suas memórias. 

http://blitz.sapo.pt/principal/update/2017-10-18-So-Get-Up-acid-house-dos-anos-90-em-Portugal-e-tema-de-exposicao-em-Londres