EARMILK: The Already Prevalent "Crushed" and "So Get Up"

The production duo Cosmic Gate released their critically acclaimed Start To Feel in July 2014, and has been releasing its all-star singles like "Yai" to accompany the already prevalent "Crushed" and "So Get Up" since. And now, Cosmic Gate has teamed up with Armin, a long time friend and collaborator, on "Embargo." The two artists joining forces on the track are veterans in everything trance and progressive, and have applied that experience to create a powerful, big room instrumental. 

Read more at http://earmilk.com/2015/10/22/armin-van-buuren-continues-down-the-road-to-next-album-with-embargo-collaboration-with-cosmic-gate/#iZPhIJ4dYFSkmo4F.99

 Written by journalist Steph Evans for Earmilk [USA]

http://earmilk.com/2015/10/22/armin-van-buuren-continues-down-the-road-to-next-album-with-embargo-collaboration-with-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

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

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)