So Get Up - Remixes Album Red

So Get Up (Bootlegs & Remixes: Volume Red)

Russia-based EDM label Moscow Mule, just released a 13-track bootleg & remix album of Ithaka's uber-classic So Get Up (more frequently credited to Cosmic Gate and company). The cd-album features progressive house, disco, hip hop rock, nu jazz, drum & bass and dubstep mixes by Razat, Swing Kings, Miss Kittin, Samir Kuliev, Derek Marin, Marcel, Dylan Hilsley, Pagano, Dave Seaman, Lexicon Avenue and Phunk Investigation - along with two acapella versions.

Executive Producer: Artyom Berezin 
Mastered By:  Vladmir Kuznetsov

Please note: This release was absolutely unauthorized by writer/vocalist Ithaka Darin Pappas, or anyone involved in creating these greats sonic works (we have certainly entered of new era of musical thievery).

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

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

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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           Ithaka - EDMânia (South America) Dec 2016

So Get Up - A Poem By Ithaka Darin Pappas

 

Ithaka : So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas

Collection of vocal poems recorded in Europe in 1993, which had been completely lost until being rediscovered in early 2017 (on a damaged cassette tape in a Los Angeles garage). These are the companion works for the iconic, So Get Up.

 https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ithaka2

Californian-born writer and vocalist Ithaka (aka Ithaka Darin Pappas) relocated from his native Los Angeles in 1992 to Europe where the artist entered of six year period of hyper-creativity. There he wrote, vocalized, created sculptures and photographed among other activities.

In 1993 he wrote a collection of poems for a daily audio segment he hosted on a program called Quatro Bairro on Rádio Commercial, Lisbon. After reciting some these poems live on Rádio Comerical in 1993, he later recorded them as a collection of demos with a producer friend in the UK.

The next year he recorded one of these poems, So Get Up, with the progressive-house project Underground Sound Of Lisbon who achieved massive international success with the track via distribution by Tribal/I.R.S. Records in New York.

Between a series of moves and career developments, the original 1993 vocal poem demos recorded in England were lost. Neither studio technician or artist could find the original, or copies.

So Get Up went on to become an international EDM anthem remixed by greats such as; Miss Kittin, Fatboy Slim. Mert Yücel, Dave Seaman etc.


Later in 2013, the song saw yet another chapter of fame when top DJ's both Hardwell and Armina Van Buuren endorsed a new version of the So Get Up rleased by German trance music stars Cosmic Gate using Ithaka's original lyrical/ vocal acapella)

Ithaka himself went on to record a series of critically acclaimed hip hop albums.

Here together on this disc are two new vocal recordings of Ithaka's iconic poems "So Get Up" and "We Are The Players" (recorded in Mexico - 2017) along with the complete collection of vocal-poem acapella demos made in 1993, some with their original proposed instrumental sketches. Please note: These are not intended to be finished songs, but instead are included to demonstrate Ithaka's early musical direction prior to both Underground Sound Of Lisbon's version of So Get Up (1994) and his own solo album, Flowers And The Color Of Paint (1995).

In the future, the artist hopes to collaborate with some of the EDM producers that have previously mixed his vocal-literary works, perhaps without even knowing who had recorded them.