The vocal-poem song “So Get Up” is by Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas).
According to Wikipedia:
Ithaka Darin Pappas (a Californian hip hop artist, poet, photographer and sculptor of Greek ancestry) originally wrote and recorded “So Get Up” on December 13th 1992 for a segment of a radio program called Quatro Bairro, that he regularly appeared on as a guest host. The program was aired by the station Rádio Comercial in Lisbon, Portugal (where Ithaka lived between 1992–1998).
In February of 1993, Ithaka recorded an electro-style version of So Get Up and an entire album demo with a student sound engineer in Manchester, England which in addition to So Get Up, included several of his other poems. The project was called So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas, but was not immediately released by a label.
In late 1993, a Portuguese electronic music group called Underground Sound Of Lisbon invited Ithaka to record the So Get Up lyric, yet a third time, for the B-Side of a white label 12″ vinyl demo they were making as an initial offering for their upstart label called Kaos (Portugal). It became an actual manufactured release and achieved distribution outside of Portugal. This version enjoyed wide international success (#83 on the U.K. pop charts in 1994). But apparently, for marketing reasons, So Get Up was presented as a 100% Portuguese creation - even though the lyricist and vocalist was a Californian, briefly living in Portugal, and the song was written and recorded in English.
Ithaka Darin Pappas was largely not credited with his contribution on the Underground Sound of Lisbon version of the song, which perhaps may be the reason you are asking, WHO does “So Get Up?”.
Furthermore, both Underground Sound Of Lisbon’s label, (Kaos Records, Portugal) and their international distributor Tribal USA (EMI), headed by Rob Di Stefano, released several acapellas of Ithaka’s voice and lyrics without a visible credit, causing a snowball of anonymous bootleg versions and remixes.
In 1997, Stretch n Vern released “Get Up! Go Insane!”, principally using the hook lines of Ithaka’s “So Get Up”, becoming a #17 pop hit in the United Kingdom. “Get Up! Go Insane!”, was also used in a highly-visible Samsung printer commercial in Korea starring movie actress Jun Ji-Hyun. According to all of her biographic accounts, the commercial turned her into a “popular sensation”. The dancing around to “Get Up! Go Insane!” and the attitude expressed in the commercial’s footage made her into an icon for Koreans in their late teens and early twenties.
In 2013, German trance super stars Cosmic Gate, licensed Ithaka’s entire So Get Up vocal for their track coincidentally entitled “So Get Up” (again without a featured lyric/vocal credit to Ithaka). So Get Up became known as one of their best tracks, a ‘stadium banger’ as it was called by DJ MAG. They even manufactured a line of shirts with Ithaka’s lyrics printed on them, with no mention of the author.
By 2020, there have possibly been more than one-thousand remixes of Ithaka’s 1993 vocal acapella recording of So Get Up, becoming one of the most remixed acapellas in musical history. It appears under many alternative titles such as "Get Up", "Insane", "Get Up, Go Insane!", "Next Life", "See You In The Next Life" "The End Of The Earth", "Hardventure", "Headcharge", "Belther", "Last Resurrection", "PPF (Past Present Future)", "Intensity", "Forget The Past", "Trance Line", "Viginti Etduo", "Have A Blast", “Turn To Dust”, "Alien Life Forms, Goodbye My Friends", "Jet Airplane", "Speed O.J.", “Zombie”, etc..
“SO GET UP” REMIX ARTISTS INCLUDE: Armin Van Buuren, Fatboy Slim, Danny Tenaglia, Junior Vasquez, Dj Vibe, Oxia, Peter Bailey, Orion's Voice, JJ Mullor, Dani Sbert, Lexington Avenue, Dylan, Derek Marin, Public Domain, K-Traxx, Technoboy, Bob Ray & Van Dyuk, Ben Gold, Pelari, Miss Kittin, Dave Seaman, Dade (ITA), Carlos Walker, Alien Project, Second Nature, Pomella, John Neiland, Br1an, DJ Healer, Traumprinz, Joseph LP, Rab-Beat , Pirro, Matheu, Neanderthal Phonogram, Omar Lopez, Liquid Viking, MotivBreaks, Chaka & Marty, Jay Dahbi, Hu Bee, Frankyeffe, Township Rebellion, Rui Flip, Dani Villa, Rodri Vegas, Dr. Funk, ZRG, Swing Kings, Acti, Antolini, DANTEE, Alternative Journey, Nell Silva, Geometric Dark, Pepo, Pacho, Club Atlas, Branko, Buraka Som Sistema, Alex Di Stefano, TNT, Zatox, Marc Hartman, Meat Katie, DJ Dũng Tí , Future Plays, Manu Kenton, Dejay D, Ozy & Ash, Derk Marin, Marcel, Doppeldosen, Maik Ibane, Cubik, Checo Zak, Fuelo Ruedo, Paradigm X, Samir Kuliev, Lee Burridge, Razat, Alex Page, DJ Kryst-Off, Breaker, Micromakine, Gu'Brian, Trolley Snatcha, Mr. Argenis, Let's Try, Audio Noir, Peace Maker, Ninja, Cab Thomas, Loose Effects, JJ Mullor, Dani Sbert, Atmozfears, Igor Carmo, Pelari, Ben Gold, Koozah, Slow Panpot, Furio Levant, Bob Ray, Van Dyuk, Morgana DJ, Damien Blaze, Audio Noir, Hardwell, Agustin Servente, Matias Chavez, HeatBeat, Danny Garlick, Hakan Sarugil, Cassien Jean, Marco Calanni, Bageera, Black Force, Horizon, DJ Pibert, Outworld, Plusculaar, Mike Steventon & Tone, Bart Skils, Peace Maker, Philippe Rochard, Andrea Doria & Dino Lenny, 2 DJs In A Room, Steve Hill & Technikal, Seikos, Dantime, Maziano, Lochness DJ Team, DJ Zorneus, Phunk Investigation, Sharp & Smooth, Mowree, Lexicon Avenue, Architect, Committee, Low End Specialists, Dan Robbins, King-Size, Eric Kupper, Mert Yucel, Dylan, K-Traxx, High Voltage, K-Traxx, PCP, Ce Ce Lee, Atlantis ITA, Pathfinder, Jason "Jinx" Zambito, Tecmania Rebel, Patrick van der Hart, Public Domain, Sarasite, etc.
An alternative answer to the question would be that All the above artists recorded “So Get Up”, but the lyrics and the vocals (the identifying elements) on All the versions of So Get Up are by Ithaka Darin Pappas. And if we are not talking about the identifying marker of a track as the song itself, what exactly do we mean by a ‘song’ anyway when we are talking about electronic music?…beats wandering aimlessly through the universe?
Because of the fluidity of our medium (facility to remix, etc) at some point it is necessary to say, THIS is the song.
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