Hannah DeuPree on "So Get Up" [Magnetic Magazine}

With some of the most powerful combo-trance tracks in EDM culture, Cosmic Gate is back with another banger track, "So Get Up" on their brand new label: Wake Your Mind Records.  

So Get Up is a powerful, earth moving large track which first premiered on Armin Van Buuren's A State of Trance radio show, and has been a highly anticipated release ever since.

This track has it all, from progressive hyper-infectious pitch bent synths and electro-house influenced quick-fire drops to trance driven EQ-driven peaks- all which surround the never-forgotten vocals that stream melodies through your mind.

Journalist: Hannah DeuPree - Sep 25, 2013 - Magnetic Magazine

http://www.magneticmag.com/2013/09/edm-release-cosmic-gate-so-get-up-file-under-trance/

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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

Flux BPM on "So Get Up"

Alex Di Stefano is the new artist in the tech trance scene that makes serious waves with dark thumping basslines, full on techy grooves and magnificent breakdown that utilize the vocal samples and the synthy hooks in the finest fashion. The climax is rough and tough perfect to rock this universe and beyond.
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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

Insomniac on "So Get Up"

Throughout late 2013 and early 2014, Cosmic Gate added other significant dimensions to Wake Your Mind, further spurring the #WYM effect. Following rave receptions to a string of sold out Wake Your Mind In Concert gigs they launched WYM Records. Attached to the Armada Label group, it was conceived as a home for freethinking, no-borders music, which was immediately underlined this by its first release. Winning widespread praise from the press, ‘So Get Up’ was seen by both fans and the media alike as an (aptly) bold ‘new-avenues’ musical exploration by Cosmic Gate. 

Source: https://www.insomniac.com/artist/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

Hugh Lurcott - on So Get Up - Daily Beat

Hugh Lurcott - Daily Beat

"Those who know their house history will instantly recognize the vocals from the underground house/progressive that made waves over the Portuguese clubbing scene in 1994. Cosmic Gate leave them much intact, using them to dramatic effect."

Journalist: Hugh Lurcott
Daily Beat: September 23, 2013

Source: http://daily-beat.com/cosmic-gate-so-get-up/

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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

So Get Up - Portugal's Big Break

A ground breaking song in many ways for both Portugal and beyond. This marked a major push forward for the Iberian dance music world. Elevating Underground Sound Of Lisbon (and Portuguese dance music) to a true international level.
This particular track was a collaboration between the progressive house talents of U.S.L. (DJ Vibe & Rui Da Silva) and a Greek-American songwriter and vocalist from Los Angeles, called Ithaka.

Ithaka (who lived in Portugal 1992-1998) wrote this vocal-poem originally for his daily segment of a program called “Bairro Quatro” on Rádio Comercial in Lisbon – in early 1993. It was first recited live on the radio, then a few months later recorded as a Kraftwerk-inspired musical demo in the UK. This version was not released until 2017 (So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas).
However in late 1993, USL invited Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas) to appear on the B-Side of a single they were doing to launch their new label, Kaos.
Ithaka showed up at the studio with a book full of lyrics, but So Get Up rose above the others.
And from this 3rd recording of So Get Up (and its subsequent release of an acapella on a multi-disc 12" vinyl-set), most remixes and other derivative tracks have been spawned.
Some of the more known remixes have been by: Junior Vasquez, Danny Tenaglia, Lexicon Avenue, Fatboy Slim, Miss Kittin, Cosmic Gate etc.
To date there are well over one-thousand documented releases, mixes and bootlegs of So Get Up under varying 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”, etc





Ithaka, recording his vocal-poem So Get Up.

SO GET UP - Cosmic Gate (Lyric Genius)

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The lyrics of this track - and indeed the vocal itself - are by the Californian poet and artist, Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas).

It was originally written and recorded in early 1993 for a program on Rádio Comercial in Portugal (where Ithaka briefly resided) and about a year later, he was invited to re-record it with the progressive house act, Underground Of Lisbon.

USL had much success with their version of the song, never giving vocal and lyrical credit to the creator (and claimed it as 100% 'Portuguese') even though only on one or two mixes, of over a thousand versions, is USL's music even present.

However, Ithaka's vocal & lyrics appear on 100% of the songs, but because USL released an unauthorized/un-credited acapella via Tribal/I.R.S. Records in New York (1994), this poem has anonymously permeated the dance music world and even become a kind of festival anthem.

Cosmic Gate's version brilliantly uses these profound words to an even greater impact - and larger audience. But once again, where is the vocal/lyric credit?

This is not a cover version, this is a remix of a 1993 Ithaka spoken-word poem.

https://genius.com/Cosmic-gate-so-get-up-lyrics

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Cosmic Gate's "So Get Up" Receives 8 out 10 Review In Mix Mag

 

 Cosmic Gate's "So Get Up" 

featuring (in entirety) 

the iconic 1993 vocal-poem 

by Californian songwriter, Ithaka

 receives 8 out of 10 in Mix Mag review

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Inspired perhaps by the launch of their new label, Cosmic Gate take a big bold step down the electric-house strasse here. Re-tasking the acapella-apocalypto written by and vocalized by Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas) in 1993 [for Underground Sound Of Lisbon], they crank up the extreme frequencies and EQs while using trance aspects as incidentals, rather than the core. Sure to divisive in terms of Trance Family opinion, but any which way you cut it, you can't deny its effectiveness on the dance floor.
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