So Get Up

This article is about the spoken-word EDM vocal poem by Ithaka. For other uses, see So Get Up (disambiguation).
"So Get Up"

Lyricist/Vocalist, Ithaka
Single by Ithaka with mixes by USL, Miss Kittin, Cosmic Gate etc.
Released 7 July 1994
Format 12", CDS, Downloads
Recorded 14 June 1993,
1 Ceu Só Estudios, Portugal
Genre Spoken word, House Music Trance Music
Length varying lengths
Label
  • Kaos, Tribal, Twisted, Armada etc.
Writer(s) Lyrics Ithaka Darin Pappas publisher= Ravenshark Music/Scion Four (NY)ASCAP, (original music) Rui Da Silva, DJ Vibe
Certification G

So Get Up, written and vocalized by Ithaka, was a 1993 spoken-word vocal poem often credited to the Portuguese house music production duo Underground Sound of Lisbon. The initial musical element backing the poem was created by DJ Vibe & Doctor J, with lyrics and vocals by the Californian poet and rapper, Ithaka [1] (at that time using his alias name, Korvowrong). Ithaka Darin Pappas lived and recorded in Lisbon, Portugal from 1992-1998.

The original 12" mix was 9 minutes and 22 secs long, and was originally released as the B side of the "Chapter One E.P". The A Side being "Dance With Me" (a track sampling Age Of Love). In Portugal this was released by KAOS Records, and worldwide by Tribal UK and Twisted Records (U.S.).

In 1994, the UK edition of the single (now as A side), had several remixes by Danny Tenaglia and Junior Vasquez as well as an original mix and a cappella version.

The first version of "So Get Up" was an underground progressive house music, with lyrics written and vocalized by Ithaka, about "End of The World". It became a major Portuguese dance music "national anthem", it was the very track that influenced many clubbers (better club users) to get interested in house music. Famous for its shouting "So Get Up, forget the past, the end of the world is upon us! Pretty soon it will all turn to dust!"

Rob Di Stefano, owner of Twisted Records (U.S.) said on the Cd inlay:

In 1994, the world changed. Portugal, long known for its legacy of discovers, had produced two more. Calling themselves Underground Sound Of Lisbon, producers/musicians Doctor J & DJ Vibe set sail across the house music sea to claim new ground for their homeland. Their ship was the now-classic single So Get Up..." 1998[2]

In 2003, Miss Kittin used the intro of "So Get Up" on her album Radio Caroline Vol.1.

SO GET UP under varying titles (Get Up, Get Up-Go Insane !, etc.) has been used in records of Fatboy Slim, Stretch & Verne and others.

In 2005, Kaos Records released a 10th Anniversary Edition of the single. The CD release included 8 different tracks:

Although some legal and registered re-mixes have been made of So Get Up, because an a cappella was included in the first U.S. and U.K. releases on Tribal Records, rouge musical versions using the vocal have snowballed out of control. Hundreds of House, Trance, Techno, Rock, Dub-step and Grabber producers have simply placed the So Get Up vocal on their own instrumentals and called them their own (sometimes with subtle title changes but often just as "So Get Up"). To date there are now at least 1029 released remixes using the Ithaka Darin Pappas' original vocal recording - and as of late 2016, So Get Up now hold the distinction of being the most remixed vocal a cappella in musical history (Guinness World Record Holder 2016 [3]).

So Get Up by it's individual producers and djs has been played/performed at large scale dance parties around the global such as the Electric Daisy Carnival in New York (2016) as interpreted by Cosmic Gate.[4]

The "So Get Up" controversy

In 1993, Ithaka had originally written and recited the poem called So Get Up (The End Of The Earth Is Upon Us) for his weekly segment of a radio program called Quatro Bairro on Antena One in Lisbon, Portugal. The next year he rerecorded it as a guest performer to be the primary vocal of a B-Side single for the Portuguese dance music group called Underground Sound Of Lisbon. The song became an instant national hit and was later released internationally as a ten-mix, double vinyl set on New York's Tribal Records (a subsidiary of I.R.S. Records/E.M.I. Records). The song climbed to 8th place on the Billboard's Independent Dance Music Charts for the U.K. – and number 52nd in the United States. Since 1995, the song has been remixed over a thousand times including versions by such greats as Fat Boy Slim, Junior Vasquez, Danny Tenaglia, Cosmic Gate and has appeared on over fifty compilations with combined sales in the millions. As the original music has been stripped away by each succeeding producer, the only singularly unifying element of all 1000+ mixes is Ithaka's poem and his vocals. Ironically, the song which was considered the first modern "Portuguese" musical export was released without even a "featuring Ithaka" credit even though Ithaka, a Californian who was only temporarily residing in Lisbon, was the primary publishing rights owner of the track and never a member of the Underground Sound Of Lisbon project. Reportedly no actual record royalties were paid to Ithaka for nearly two decades and lawsuits followed, finally being resolved for an undisclosed amount.[5]

Track list

  1. So Get Up (original mix)
  2. So Get Up (Junior's Factory mix; remix – Junior Vasquez)
  3. So Get Up (Danny's "In The Light We Sleep" mix; remix – Danny Tenaglia)
  4. So Get Up (King-Size mix; remix – King-Size)
  5. So Get Up (Eric Kupper's Tribalectro mix; remix – Eric Kupper)
  6. So Get Up (Low End Specialists mix; remix – Low End Specialists)
  7. So Get Up (Mert Yücel DeepXperience mix; remix – Mert Yucel)
  8. So Get Up (Dan Robbins Three Dimension mix; remix – Dan Robbins)

Remixes/uses/sampling

Documented uses of vocal & poem, So Get Up [by Ithaka Darin Pappas ©1993] in modern music appearing under varying titles. Poem was originally recorded for Radio Antenna 1 in Lisbon, Portugal in 1993. However, most musical versions stemmed from uses/sampling of the a cappella version that was recorded for Underground Sound Of Lisbon in Portugal, 1994. Note: This list includes both legal and unauthorized uses.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.nme.com/nme-video/youtube/id/bzgjls85etM
  2. ↑ So Get Up, CD Single, Kaos Records Portugal
  3. ↑ https://businessallstarsblog.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/songwriter-ithaka-darin-pappas-holds-guinness-world-record-for-most-remixed-vocal-acapella-song-so-get-up/
  4. ↑ http://www.livetracklist.com/cosmic-gate-edc-new-york-2016/
  5. ↑ http://www.music-love.com/index.php?view=display&id=397287&option=com_videos
  6. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Orions-Voice-The-Next-Life/release/180365
  7. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Claudio-Diva-MC-Hair-Present-Sarasate-Tribal-Nation-The-End-Of-The-Earth/master/228020
  8. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Claudio-Diva-MC-Hair-Present-Sarasate-Tribal-Nation-The-End-Of-The-Earth/master/228020
  9. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Claudio-Diva-MC-Hair-Present-Sarasate-Tribal-Nation-The-End-Of-The-Earth/master/228020
  10. ↑ http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/So+Get+Up+Jeremy+Mix/u3FVv?src=5
  11. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Public-Domain-In-The-House-EP/release/63460
  12. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Public-Domain-In-The-House-EP/release/63460
  13. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Public-Domain-In-The-House-EP/release/63460
  14. ↑ http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1849478/a/fatboy+slim's+greatest+remixes.htm
  15. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Atlantis-Ita-See-You-In-The-Next-Life/release/29428
  16. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Atlantis-Ita-See-You-In-The-Next-Life/release/29428
  17. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/K-Traxx-Hardventure/release/136611
  18. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Orions-Voice-The-Next-Life/release/180365
  19. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Orions-Voice-The-Next-Life/release/180365
  20. ↑ http://www.beatport.com/track/the-end-of-the-earth-dub/3727270
  21. ↑ http://www.beatport.com/release/so-get-up/1058627
  22. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRRC2JDYZn0
  23. ↑ http://www.beatport.com/artist/igor-carmo/394861
  24. ↑ https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-end-of-the-earth-single/id838277372
  25. ↑ http://www.beatport.com/release/so-get-up-ep/950553
  26. ↑ http://ionline.sapo.pt/artigo/531337/red-bul-culture-clash-o-coliseu-fez-muito-barulho-e-no-fim-ganhou-o-club-atlas?seccao=Mais_i
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