The Lack Of Vocal Credit In EDM by Raj Dabral (Ex: "So Get Up" by Ithaka)

"So Get Up" by Ithaka (2017 Acapella ReRecord)

So Get Up (the poem)...NOT by Cosmic Gate - NOT by Underground Sound Of Lisbon. I am currently writing an article for EDMania Magazine (Brazil) about the lack of lyric and vocal credit in dance music (even though some of our music is very lyrical indeed). After six-weeks of research, the example (of hundreds) that most repeatedly keeps hitting me in the head is SO GET UP !. One of the most used vocals in the history of music (ALL music). 

Ironically after hearing the voice for nearly 12 years, I only recently discovered the source of this iconic dance festival anthem. It was written (and vocalized) in 1993 by a Greek-Californian from Los Angeles, Ithaka (aka Ithaka Darin Pappas), a well-known contemporary artist, writer/poet and producer, who musically is more associated with hip hop and trip hop. 

Obviously, the true identifying factor of all 1150 trance, house, big beat, drum & bass, grabber and dubstep mixes of the absolutely iconic So Get Up are the timeless lyrics and animated vocal of Mr. Pappas. 

Does any of this even matter? 

Personally I despise rap music, but are we so wrapped up in our electronic wonderland not to show at least a little love to a poet, whose work as been heard by more people around the world than have ever read Emerson ? 

PS: Another IIthaka song, Escape From The City Of Angels ((hip hop) debuted in acclaimed film director Antoine Fuqua feature movie The Replacement Killers and is considered a true underground hip hop classic: 

Does any of this even matter? 

Personally I despise rap music, but are we so wrapped up in our electronic wonderland not to show at least a little love to a poet, whose work as been heard by more people around the world than have ever read Emerson ? 

PS: Another IIthaka song, Escape From The City Of Angels ((hip hop) debuted in acclaimed film director Antoine Fuqua feature movie The Replacement Killers and is considered a true underground hip hop classic: 
 

   

So Get Up - Ithaka (The voice)

So Get Up (source: Wikipedia)

"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, Ambient, House Music, progressive house, Electro house, Trance Music, Uplifting trance, Drum and bass, Breakbeat, Dubstep, Synthpop, UK garage, Techno, Trip hop, Hip hop, Art rock
Length	varying lengths
Label	Sweatlodge, Kaos, Tribal, Twisted Records (U.S.), Twisted Records (UK), Plastic City,Armada Music, kontor records, 24 Records, Skint, Bosphorus 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, 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 GermanTrance music duo, Cosmic Gate.
LYRICS: The end of the earth is upon us. Pretty soon it’ll all turn to dust. So get up. Forget the past. Go outside and have a blast. Go a thousand miles in a jet airplane. Go out of your mind go insane To a place you never been before. Eat ice cream our you’ll lick the floor. 'Cause, the end of the earth is upon us. Pretty soon it’ll all turn to dust. Goodbye my friends. Goodbye world. I’ll see you in the next life.
Although Ithaka's poem vocal was written and first recorded in 1993 for a program called "Bairro Quatro" on Rádio Comercial in Lisbon, the initial musical element backing the poem was created in 1994 by DJ Vibe & Doctor J aka Underground Sound Of Lisbon (or USL) ^[1] who invited Ithaka (at that time using an alias name, Korvowrong) to rerecord the poem as a guest vocalist on their first release. Ithaka Darin Pappas lived and recorded in Lisbon, Portugal from 1992-1998.
USL's original 12" Progressive house mix of So Get Up was 9 minutes and 22 secs long, and was released as the B-side of the "Chapter One E.P". In Portugal this was released by Kaos Records, and worldwide by Tribal UK and Twisted Records (U.S.). It 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.
Thru the last two decades, So Get Up under varying titles such as; "Get Up", "Get Up, Go Insane!", "The End Of The Earth", "Hardventure", Headcharge, "Forget The Past", etc has been remixed, sampled and released in a multitude of EDM styles on the records of; Fatboy Slim, Stretch & Verne, 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, and many others.
In 2003, Miss Kittin used the entire "So Get Up" poem as part of the intro on her album Radio Caroline Vol.1.
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 acappella 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 ^[2]).
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.^[3]

Contents

• 1 The "So Get Up" controversy
• 2 Track list
  • 2.1 Remixes/uses/sampling
• 3 References

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 ever paid to Ithaka ^[4].
In 2013, German Trance superstars, Cosmic Gate, also excluded Ithaka's vocal/lyrical credit even though they licensed the entire So Get Up a cappella. Without a doubt, Cosmic Gate's version has become the biggest commercial success of So Get Up to date. It was featured on Armin Van Buuren's compilation A State Of Trance 2013, on Cosmic's Gate album Start to Feel(2014)^[5], with additional mixes by Pelarli, Alex di Stefano and Ben Gold. It has been a festival favorite for the group since it's release, being performed at Amsterdam Dance Event, Electric Daisy Carnival, Ultra Music Festival and on Cosmic Gate's own world tour.

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 - 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.

• 1994 Orion's Voice – "The Next Life": original mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) ^[6]
• 1994 Sarasite – "The End Of The Earth": Jatzzup mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Melody Maker Records, Italy^[7]
• 1994 Sarasite – "The End Of The Earth": Patrick P.d.j. Tribal mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Melody Maker Records, Italy^[8]
• 1994 Sarasite – "The End Of The Earth": M.C. Hair New Wave Vibrations mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Melody Maker Records, Italy^[9]
• 1995 Public Domain – "So Get Up" : Jeremy mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) BZRK Records, Netherlands ^[10][11]
• 1995 Public Domain – "So Get Up" : Dr. Phil's mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) BZRK Records, Netherlands^[12]
• 1995 Public Domain – "So Get Up" : original mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) BZRK Records, Netherlands^[13]
• 1997 Stretch & Verne – "Get Up, Go Insane !" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Spot On Records - U.K.
• 2000 Fatboy Slim aka Norman Cook – Fatboy Slim's Greatest Remixes - "Get Up, Go Insane!"^[14] (lyrics, vocals) Priarity Records
• 2000 Atlantis ITA – See You In The Next Life : original mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Overodose Records, Germany^[15]
• 2000 Atlantis ITA – See You In The Next Life : Dj Scot Project remix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Overodose Records, Germany^[16]
• 2002 K-Traxx – "Hardventure": original mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Titanic Records, Italy ^[17]
• 2003 Orion's Voice – "The Next Life": original mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Re-Fuel Records, Netherlands^[18]
• 2003 Orion's Voice – "The Next Life": Origin Unknown remix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) Re-Fuel Records, Netherlands^[19]
• 2012 Derek Marin – "The End Of The Earth" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals)^[20]
• 2013 Bob Ray & Van Dyuk – "So Get Up" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals)^[21] Elektrobeats Records
• 2013 Cosmic Gate – "So Get Up" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) ^[22] - (Germany)
• 2014 Igor Carmo – "So Get Up" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals)^[23] Nervous records
• 2014 Swing Kings – "The End Of The Earth" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) ^[24] Orange Groove Records
• 2014 JJ Mullor, Dani Sbert – "So Get Up" (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals)^[25] Supermarket Records
• 2015 Razat - "Get Up" Bombastic Bootleg Remix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals)
• 2016 Club Atlas - "So Get Up" Red Bull Culture Clash Mix (Ithaka: lyrics, vocals) 

So Get Up

 

So Get Up's lyricist/vocalist ITHAKA [aka: Ithaka Darin Pappas] cover/interview feature in DN Radical (a music supplement of the Portuguese newspaper Diário de Notícias) in November - 1997.

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As of 2016, with at least 1029 documented remixes to its credit

 "So Get Up" a vocal spoken-word poem written and recorded by 

Californian artist and songwriter Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)

is the Guinness World Record holder for

"Most Musical Remixes Created From Single Acapella"

It is estimated that more than 33.5 million copies 

of the various versions of So Get Up 

have been sold/downloaded  since 1994.

So Get Up

 

As of 2016, with at least 1029 documented remixes to its credit

 "So Get Up" a vocal spoken-word poem written and recorded by 

Californian artist and songwriter Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)

is the Guinness World Record holder for

"Most Musical Remixes Created From Single Acapella"

It is estimated that more than 33.5 million copies 

of the various versions of So Get Up 

have been sold/downloaded  since 1994.

"So Get Up" by Ithaka (The World's Most Remixed A Cappella)

In 1994, the international hit "So Get Up" that Ithaka wrote the lyrics for and vocalized (in participation with Underground Sound Of Lisbon) was nominated for "Song Of The Year" at that year's Blitz Awards, and later climbed to 8th Place on Billboard's U.K. Independent Dance Charts (and 52nd on Billboard's U.S. independent Dance Charts).

In 2016 More than twenty years after it's original release (with at leased one-thousand and twenty-nine released remixes of the original vocal) So Get Up was deemed by Guinness World Records as being The Most Remixed Vocal A Cappella in musical history.

(source: wikipedia)

"So Get Up" Writer and Vocalist, Ithaka - Cover of EDMânia Magazine

 

"So Get Up" Creator and Vocalist, Ithaka 

(Cover of EDMânia Magazine - Dec. 2016 - South American Edition) 

In 2016, with at least 1029 documented remixes to its credit

 "So Get Up" a vocal spoken-word poem written and recorded by 

Californian artist and songwriter Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)

was the Guinness World Record holder for

"Most Musical Remixes Created From Single Acapella"

Ithaka initially penned "So Get Up",

(first titled, The End Of The Earth Is Upon Us)

in mid-1993 for a daily segment of a program he regularly hosted 

on Rádio Comerical Lisbon called "Bairro Quatro".

It was recited the first time live on-air 

just an hour or two after it was written.

In 1994, also in Portugal, he re-recorded it with

a house music duo called Underground Sound Of Lisbon.

It was distributed nationally and later on Tribal Records (NY) 

with an a capella version, incredulously without a vocal credit.

It is this a capella that has been remixed, robbed, sampled, remade 

and covered to a degree unseen in the history of modern music.

In 2016, at last count there were 1029 released remixes 

of  the vocal "So Get Up" (often under different titles such as;

  The End Of The Earth, Get Up Go Insane, Forget The Past, etc). 

Guinness World Record now recognizes the SO Get Up vocal poem

 as holding the title for "Most Musical Remixes Created From Single A Capella" 

bypassing #2, Turkish pop-vocalist Evrim Tuzun, by more than 800 mixes.

Because the first release of So Get Up was not vocally credited, 

this seemed to green-light all other remix users 

of the acapella to not credit it as well (most producers 

thought the vocal and lyrics were  public domain, perhaps from an old film).

Although some mixes were legally licensed, 

many EDM artists simply made their own electronic music tracks

and place Ithaka's vocals and lyrics on top of it,

and called it entirely their own without requesting permission 

or paying royalties.

Among the more known mixes of "So Get Up" there are versions by such all-star groups/producers as; Cosmic Gate (Germany), Danny Tenaglia (USA), Junior Vazquez (USA), DJ Vibe (Portugal), Mert Yücel (Turkey), Eric Kupper (USA), Fatboy Slim (UK) and Miss Kittin (France). 

An incomplete list of DJ/producers who have remixed, reworked, covered or sampled the vocal poem "So Get Up" by Ithaka Darin Pappas since its first recording in 1993 include: Cosmic Gate (Germany), Danny Tenaglia (USA), Junior Vazquez (USA), DJ Vibe (Portugal), Mert Yücel (Turkey), Eric Kupper (USA), Fatboy Slim (UK) and Miss Kittin (France), Pelarli, Alex Di Stefano, Public Domain (Holland), Pagano (Italy), Mirabeau (UK), Damaged People (UK), Mowree (Italy), Stretch & Verne (UK), Sarasite, Orion's Voice, Bob Ray & Van Dyuk, Igor Carmo, JJ Mullor, Dani Sber, Swing Kings, Atlantis IT, Ben Gold, Nixu Zsun (France), Ricardo Diaz, Peter Bailey (USA), DJ Kingsize, FuturePlays (Mexico), Derek Marin,  Oxia (France), Domino, DJ Diego Mendonça, Mauro Ferno, Maik Ibane, Ce Ce Lee (Italy), Dj Kryst-Off Aka Zornéus (France), FRANKYEFFE (Italy), Branko & Club Atlas (members of Buraka Som Sistema), Alex Page (Portugal), Nell Silva (Portugal), Alex Farolfi, Fargetta, GianLuca Mens, The Ventura 87, Dimas Carbajo, Christo Z (Greece), Ronni King,Terry Lee Brown JR., DJ Theo V (Greece), Djz Rom (Cambodia), DJ Beg, Lexicon Avenue, DJ Screw (Thailand) etc etc.

Labels that have released "So Get Up" mixes include: Tribal (USA-UK), Twisted (USA-UK), Forensic, Kaos (Portugal), Plastic City, Bosphorus Underground Recording (Turkey).

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Lyrics for SO GET UP

By: Ithaka Darin Pappas ©1993
(RavenShark Music/Scion Four Music/ASCAP)

"SO GET UP"
.......................................................

THE END OF THE EARTH IS UPON US
PRETTY SOON IT’LL ALL TURN TO DUST

SO GET UP
FORGET THE PAST

GO OUTSIDE
HAVE A BLAST

GO A THOUSAND MILES IN A JET AIRPLANE
GO OUT OF YOUR MIND GO INSANE

TO A PLACE YOU NEVER BEEN BEFORE
EAT ICE CREAM OUR YOU’LL LICK THE FLOOR

CUZ, THE END OF THE EARTH IS UPON US
PRETTY SOON IT’LL ALL TUN TO DUST

GOODBYE MY FRIENDS
GOODBYE WORLD

I’LL SEE YOU IN THE NEXT LIFE

Business All Stars Magazine (June 2002) Cover: ATM Network's Phil Rock

 

ATM Network's Phil Rock 

featured on June 2002 cover of

of Business All Stars Magazine (USA)

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HOUSTON, Aug. 8, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cardtronics, Inc. (Nasdaq:CATM) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Cardtronics USA, Inc., has acquired all the assets of ATM Network, Inc., including its merchant contracts, customer relationships, online store and web properties, and its Minnesota-based head office. ATM Network's management team and employees are expected to join Cardtronics. The transaction was signed and closed on August 7.
ATM Network—founded in 1996, privately owned and headquartered near Minneapolis—provided ATM services to independent merchants, primarily on the local level. Expanding beyond its upper Midwest origins, ATM Network grew into a nationwide company, boasting a merchant client count topping 6,000. With that client base drawn from all 50 United States plus Washington, D.C., ATM Network had more than 6,200 (largely) merchant own-and-load ATMs under contract.
Addition of ATM Network Assets
Including its online store and direct-to-merchant sales engine, the assets of ATM Network deliver a complement to Cardtronics' existing independent merchant ATM business, which has historically filled its sales pipeline through indirect sales efforts, primarily through a network of dealer relationships. By acquiring ATM Network's assets, Cardtronics adds to an already sizeable portfolio of merchant own-and-load ATMs under contract, gains an established and sizeable direct-to-merchant sales team and brings greater balance to Cardtronics' dealer and direct merchant ATM sales outreach initiatives. ATM Network's legacy business relationships enhance Cardtronics' ability to more rapidly acquire independent merchant clients and a greater share of the collective U.S. ATM market.
"A year ago, we acquired Access to Money, bringing a new level of scale to our merchant own-and-load business. This move complemented our high-profile ATM placement and bank branding model, which has made Cardtronics so successful," said Steve Rathgaber, chief executive officer, Cardtronics. "This year, we've strengthened our commitment to the merchant line of business by acquiring the assets of the premier merchant own-and-load operation in the market today, ATM Network. We're particularly excited about the merchant leadership team that will be joining us through this deal. Cardtronics has a very strong management team. With this move, it just got even stronger."