Ithaka: The (Almost) Unknown EDM Legend

 

Ithaka: The (Almost) Unknown EDM Legend: 

Since it's original recording in 1993, So Get Up, written and vocalized by the Greek-Californian songwriter named Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas) has been remixed more than 1100 times, 

most notably by Armin Van Buuren and Cosmic Gate 

for State Of Trance & Armada.

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As of 2016, with at least 1029 documented remixes to its credit

 "So Get Up" a vocal spoken-word poem written and recorded by 

Californian artist and songwriter Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)

is the Guinness World Record holder for

"Most Musical Remixes Created From Single Acapella"

It is estimated that more than 33.5 million copies 

of the various versions of So Get Up 

have been sold/downloaded  since 1994.

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So Get Up: is published by Ravenshark Music /Scion Four Music (NY) / Memory Lane /  ASCAP 

SO GET UP

The Unknown EDM Legend: 

Since it's original recording in 1993, So Get Up, written and vocalized by the Greek-Californian songwriter named Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas) has been remixed more than 1100 times, 

most notably by Armin Van Buuren and Cosmic Gate 

for State Of Trance & Armada.

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As of 2016, with at least 1029 documented remixes to its credit

 "So Get Up" a vocal spoken-word poem written and recorded by 

Californian artist and songwriter Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)

is the Guinness World Record holder for

"Most Musical Remixes Created From Single Acapella"

It is estimated that more than 33.5 million copies 

of the various versions of So Get Up 

have been sold/downloaded  since 1994.

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So Get Up: is published by Ravenshark Music /Scion Four Music (NY) / Memory Lane /  ASCAP 

Armin Van Buuren - "So Get Up"

 

Accidental Trance Superstar: 

Since it's original recording in 1993, So Get Up, written and vocalized by the Greek-Californian songwriter named Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas) has been remixed more than 1100 times, 

most notably by Armin Van Buuren and Cosmic Gate 

for State Of Trance & Armada.

 

 

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As of 2016, with at least 1029 documented remixes to its credit

 "So Get Up" a vocal spoken-word poem written and recorded by 

Californian artist and songwriter Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)

is the Guinness World Record holder for

"Most Musical Remixes Created From Single Acapella"

It is estimated that more than 33.5 million copies 

of the various versions of So Get Up 

have been sold/downloaded  since 1994.

 

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So Get Up: is published by Ravenshark Music /Scion Four Music (NY) / Memory Lane /  ASCAP 

So Get Up - Accidental Trance Superstar

 

Accidental Trance Superstar: 

Since it's original recording in 1993, So Get Up, written and vocalized by the Greek-Californian songwriter named Ithaka(Ithaka Darin Pappas) has been remixed more than 1100 times, most notably by Armin Van Buuren 

and Cosmic Gate for State Of Trance/Armada.

 

 

So Get Up's lyricist/vocalist ITHAKA [aka: Ithaka Darin Pappas] cover/interview feature in DN Radical (a music supplement of the Portuguese newspaper Diário de Notícias) in November - 1997.

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As of 2016, with at least 1029 documented remixes to its credit

 "So Get Up" a vocal spoken-word poem written and recorded by 

Californian artist and songwriter Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)

is the Guinness World Record holder for

"Most Musical Remixes Created From Single Acapella"

It is estimated that more than 33.5 million copies 

of the various versions of So Get Up 

have been sold/downloaded  since 1994.

"SO GET UP !! - What Is This Song?

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080508150343AA2ldPl

What is this song?

HERe is the lyrics

The end of the earth is upon us.Pretty soon it wall 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 wall all turn to dust. 10000 Miles in a jet airplane. Go out of your mind Go insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"SO GET UP" is a vocal poem originally written and vocalized by Californian poet and artist, ITHAKA (Ithaka Darin Pappas). It was recorded for the first time (with a hip hop instrumental) on Radio Commercial in Lisbon, Portugal in 1993, where Ithaka resided between the years of 1992-1998.

He later recorded it in 1994 with the house music duo Underground Of Lisbon on a local label called Kaos, who licensed it (without authorization from the lyricist) to Tribal Records in New York who put a a ten-mix double vinyl release with mixes by Junior Vasquez and Danny Tenaglia. Also included was an acapella of Ithaka's vocal which began a feeding frenzy of mixes, some legal but mostly bootlegs. Producer stole from other producers, never really knowing where the vocal and lyrics came from assuming it was pubic domain.


https://www.facebook.com/SoGetUp/

In 2014, the German trance act Cosmic Gate released it yet again, it became a hit and they based there entire world tour on it including merchandise (with even so much as a vocal credit).


In 2016, an authorized version of the track was presented by Club Atlas at the Red Bull Music Academy's 'Culture Clash Lisbon' music competition. The group took the evening's top honors.

To date So Get Up has been remixed and released more than 900 times in 23 countries. Sometimes called, "Forget The Past", "Get Up, Go Insane!", "The End Of The Earth", "Insane", "Go Outside, Have A Blast" etc.

Note: Ithaka is also the lyricist and vocalist of the underground hip hop hit, "Escape From The City Of Angels" which appeared in Antoine Fuqua's film "The Replacement Killers" starring Chow Yun Fat and Mira Sorvino (Columbia Pictures).

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080508150343AA2ldPl

"SO GET UP !! - What Is This Song ?

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080508150343AA2ldPl

What is this song?

HERe is the lyrics

The end of the earth is upon us.Pretty soon it wall 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 wall all turn to dust. 10000 Miles in a jet airplane. Go out of your mind Go insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"SO GET UP" is a vocal poem originally written and vocalized by Californian poet and artist, ITHAKA (Ithaka Darin Pappas). It was recorded for the first time (with a hip hop instrumental) on Radio Commercial in Lisbon, Portugal in 1993, where Ithaka resided between the years of 1992-1998.

He later recorded it in 1994 with the house music duo Underground Of Lisbon on a local label called Kaos, who licensed it (without authorization from the lyricist) to Tribal Records in New York who put a a ten-mix double vinyl release with mixes by Junior Vasquez and Danny Tenaglia. Also included was an acapella of Ithaka's vocal which began a feeding frenzy of mixes, some legal but mostly bootlegs. Producer stole from other producers, never really knowing where the vocal and lyrics came from assuming it was pubic domain.


https://www.facebook.com/SoGetUp/

In 2014, the German trance act Cosmic Gate released it yet again, it became a hit and they based there entire world tour on it including merchandise (with even so much as a vocal credit).


In 2016, an authorized version of the track was presented by Club Atlas at the Red Bull Music Academy's 'Culture Clash Lisbon' music competition. The group took the evening's top honors.

To date So Get Up has been remixed and released more than 900 times in 23 countries. Sometimes called, "Forget The Past", "Get Up, Go Insane!", "The End Of The Earth", "Insane", "Go Outside, Have A Blast" etc.

Note: Ithaka is also the lyricist and vocalist of the underground hip hop hit, "Escape From The City Of Angels" which appeared in Antoine Fuqua's film "The Replacement Killers" starring Chow Yun Fat and Mira Sorvino (Columbia Pictures).

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080508150343AA2ldPl

So Get Up At Neo Pop Festival

Source: http://www.redbull.com/en/music/stories/1331605671473/when-underground-sound-of-lisbon-took-over-the-world 7 August 2013 Theorists have argued that Portugal’s strong connection to rock music derives from the country’s deeply ingrained nostalgia, its connection to fado and the sound of the Portuguese guitar. It makes sense: dance music’s uplifting vibe and celebrative moods aren’t the first connections someone might make with the classic fado diva lament that is now a world treasure recognized by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage (when will they recognise techno as such?). With that in mind, it’s not surprising that Portugal’s first impact in the world of dance music back in 1993, as house turned into rave and moved into fields and massive open-air venues, was achieved with a track that sounded as grim and dark as some of the most introspective fado: “The end of the world is upon us / Pretty soon it will all turn to dust” It’s not exactly day-glo, happy hardcore fodder is it? © DJ Vibe The words to So Get Up, the Underground Sound Of Lisbon’s 1994 world smash, belonged to Ithaka Darin Pappas, a seasoned traveler, surfer and sculptor from California of Greek descent, who for a while had a parallel career in Portugal as the rapper and frontman of Ithaka. In ’93, when he laid the vocals to a song stuck on the B-side of the aptly titled Chapter One, no one could have imagined that the nascent Kaos Records would go on to license the track to the then powerful Tribal America label that would then hand it over to be remixed by heavyweights like Junior Vasquez and Danny Tenaglia. The song urged people to “go outside and have a blast”, connecting with a nihilistic ethos that prevailed on the dancefloor. And it ignited the brief world domination by Tribal, based on a harder and edgier sound. New York was the centre of the world, but Portugal revealed itself as a kind of secret paradise, a “new Ibiza”. So Get Up sold lorry-loads worldwide and was licensed for countless dance compilations – for a brief moment the planet was marching to the sound of just one tribal drum. But it also altered Portugal’s dependence on rock, opening dancefloors all over the country to progressive electronic beats and paving the way for today’s healthy club scene. It also birthed a network of producers who’ve managed to stay away from fado guitars while at the same time reinventing the very fabric of Portuguese soul through electronic beats. “I wasn’t even interested in running labels or making music, I just wanted to be a DJ,” said Tó Pereira, aka DJ Vibe, one half of The Underground Sound of Lisbon with Rui da Silva, recently. He speaks fondly of Portuguese rave from the first half of the ’90s – a more tribal, more percussive sound connected to our history and Africa’s. That’s why he still rates So Get Up as his best work – “way above anything else”. That’s how you rate classics: placing them above anything else. “Go a thousand miles in a jet plane / Go out of your mind, go insane”. That still resonates.