So Get Up (30th Anniversary poem book) written by Ithaka Darin Pappas

So Get Up, a lyric poem by Californian artist and songwriter Ithaka (or Ithaka Darin Pappas) was written on December 13th 1992 on a cafe napkin in the Amoreiras neighborhood of Lisbon, Portugal, where he worked and resided from 1992-1998. At the time, Ithaka had been guest-hosting segments of the program "4º Bairro" (4th Block) on the national station Rádio Comercial during which he would often read his own short stories and poems. Having arrived to the station that day with little or no material to recite, Ithaka wrote So Get Up and a couple of short prose pieces at a coffeeshop next to the station's studio just prior to going on-air. A few months later, Ithaka recorded an electro musical version of So Get Up and other songs with a production team in Manchester, England released by indie label Embryo Entertainment with little public attention. In subsequent three decades however, So Get Up as a vocal poem has been utilized extensively by international producers in almost every sub-genre of electronic dance music. There are, to date, more than six-hundred and fifty songs using the So Get Up poem vocalized by Ithaka as their base, making So Get Up one of the most remixed vocal acapellas in musical history. Some of the most visible versions globally have been produced by Underground Sound of Lisbon, Fatboy Slim and Cosmic Gate. https://www.amazon.com/So-Get-Ithaka-Darin-Pappas/dp/B0BMSN6PQH

"So Get Up" (In The Next Life remix by Atlantis ITA) in feature film "Sorted" 2000

In 1999, as a member of the short-lived project Atlantis ITA, Dino Lenny and musical partner Michele Guidi released "In The Next Life" a remix of So Get Up, a 1992 vocal-poem song by Californian songwriter Ithaka (or Ithaka Darin Pappas). The track, which utilized Ithaka's original 1992 vocal, was included in the soundtrack of the 2000 British thriller film Sorted directed by Alexander Jovy along with renowned musical acts such as; Leftfield, Morcheeba, Public Enemy, Elvis Presley and Depeche Mode.

The song was played during the closing titles sequence of the film, ending the entire film with Ithaka Darin Pappas' acapella line, "I'll See You In The Next Life". Although other mixes of "So Get Up" had previously charted in the United Kingdom, once in 1995 (at #84 as "So Get Up" remixed by Underground Sound Of Lisbon) and again in 1997 (at #17 as "Get Up! Go Insane" as reworked by Stretch N Vern), however after appearing in the film, Atlantis ITA's In The Next Life modern trance interpretation charted the song a third time in the UK at #96 in May of 2001.

Ithaka Darin Pappas, vocalist/lyricst of "See You In The Next Life (So Get Up).