So Get Up

"So Get Up"
Lyricist/Vocalist, Ithaka
Single by Ithaka with mixes by USL, Lexicon Avenue, Cosmic Gate etc.
Released	1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Format	12", CDS, Downloads
Recorded	Ithaka's acapella recorded 14 June 1993, Estúdios 1 Só Céu - Cascais, Portugal. Music made globally by individual producers (1993-2017)
Genre	Spoken word, Ambient, House Music, progressive house, Electro house, Deep house, Trance Music, Uplifting trance, Drum and bass, Breakbeat, Hardcore, Dubstep, Synthpop, UK garage, Techno, Trip hop, Hip hop, Downtempo, Nu jazz, Art rock
Length	varying lengths
Label	Armada Music [Netherlands], Wake Your Mind [Germany], Nervous Records [USA], Kaos Records [Portugal], Tribal Records [USA], Tribal Records [UK , Twisted Records (U.S.), Twisted Records (UK), Plastic City [Germany], Sweatlodge Records [USA], Absolutely Records [Italy], Kontor records, 24 Records [Italy], Skint, Bosphorus Underground Recordings [Turkey], Chuvstvo Ritma Records [Russia], Black Hole Recordings [Netherlands], Elektrobeats Records [Italy], Forensic Records [UK], Mental Madness Records [Germany], Groove Records [Switzerland], Hymen Records [Germany], Trance Corporation Recordings [Spain], Titanic Records [Italy], Hardcore Maniacs [Spain], Party Label Unique Records [Netherlands], Desire Records [Portugal], Black Habitat Records, People Tech Records [Venzuela], HARDwithSTYLE Records [Netherlands], Subground Records [Italy], Memory Stick Records [Netherlands], Union Recordings [Poland], Supermarket Records, Orange Groove Recordings, Doctors Of Chaos Records [Italy], Next Cyclone Records [Italy], Elektrobeats Records [Italy], Digital+ Records [Spain], Bliss Point Records [Turkey], Activa Records [Italy], Afterglow Records [Germany], Sector Beatz [Switzerland], Re-Fuel Records [Netherlands], Fabric Records [UK], Dogmain Records [Portugal], PTP Records [Germany], Bit Music [Spain], Sys-X Records [Netherlands], Spot On Records [UK], Overodose Records [Germany], Lost Paradise Records, BZRK Records [Netherlands], Kontor Records, 24 Records [Italy], Skint, Renegade Hardware [UK], Melody Maker Records [Italy], Tronic [Sweden], Mole Listening Pearls [Germany], Refreshed [Germany], Planet Dance Records [Netherlands], etc.
Songwriter(s)	Lyrics Ithaka Darin Pappas publisher= Ravenshark Music/Scion Four (NY)ASCAP, (first released music backing the poem) Rui Da Silva, DJ Vibe

So Get Up, written and vocalized by Ithaka, also known as Ithaka Darin Pappas, is a 1993 spoken-word Electronic dance music vocal-poem more frequently credited to the Portuguese house music production duo Underground Sound of Lisbon and the German Trance music duo, Cosmic Gate.

Ithaka Darin Pappas lived and recorded in Lisbon, Portugal from 1992-1998. His poem So Get Up (then entitled "So Get Up, The End Of The Earth Is Upon Us") was written and first vocalized in January 1993 for a program called "Bairro Quatro" on Rádio Comercial in Lisbon. The station's sound technician, Pedro Costa, recorded Ithaka's voice live on-air. Two months later, in March 1993, a techno-pop demo was made in Manchester, England with a student engineer/producer. The initial 'publicly released, physically manufactured' musical element backing the poem was created in 1994 by DJ Vibe & Doctor J aka Underground Sound Of Lisbon (or USL) who invited Ithaka (at that time using an alias name, Korvowrong) to rerecord the poem as a guest vocalist on their first release.

USL's nine-minute Progressive house version of So Get Up appeared on the B-side of their "Chapter One" 12-inch vinyl release. In Portugal this was distributed by Kaos Records, and worldwide by Tribal UK and Twisted Records (U.S.). It soon became a major Portuguese dance music "national anthem" and influenced a large populace of Portuguese youth to get interested in house music, famous for Ithaka's shouting "So get up, forget the past, the end of the world is upon us! Pretty soon it will all turn to dust!"

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. This first international edition sold approximately 50,000 copies.