DefQon 1- World of Madness

"So Get Up" is a 1992 spoken-word electronic dance music vocal-poem lyric song written and vocalized by Ithaka Darin Pappas (frequently known as simply Ithaka). In 2025, Expresso journalist Paulo André Cecílio stated that Ithaka's lyrics Forget the past, go outside, have a blast are words that, at one point in the 90s, had as much impact around the world as Timothy Leary's famous expression: Turn on, tune in, drop out. Because of multiple remixes and recreations using Ithaka's a capella, the song is frequently credited to other artists, including; Portuguese house music production duo Underground Sound of Lisbon, German trance music duo Cosmic Gate, the Spanish group Committee and Fatboy Slim. Ithaka Darin Pappas lived and recorded in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1992 to 1998. His poem "So Get Up" (then titled "So Get Up, the End of the Earth Is Upon Us") was written and first vocalized on December 13, 1992, for a program called Quarto Bairro on Rádio Comercial in Lisbon. The station's radio presenter, Pedro Costa, recorded Ithaka's voice live on-air. Two months later, in March 1993, a techno-pop version was made in Manchester, England, with a student engineer-producer and released with little attention on Embryo Recordings. In 1994, DJ Vibe and Doctor J a.k.a. Underground Sound of Lisbon (or USL) invited Ithaka (at that time using an alias name, Korvowrong) to re-record the poem for 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 U.S. label Twisted Records. 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 "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!" In 1994, the UK edition of the single, had several remixes by Danny Tenaglia and Junior Vasquez as well as an original mix and two different a cappella variations. This first international edition sold approximately 80,000 copies, with over a million copies of the song sold between 1994 and 1995 via international compilations, reaching the #1 ranking on specialized dance music charts around the world. Thru the last three decades, So Get Up under varying titles such as; "Get Up", "Insane", "Go Insane", "Get Up! Go Insane!", "Forget the Past", "Next Life", "See You in the Next Life" "The End of the Earth", "The End of the Earth Is Upon Us", "Hardventure", "Headcharge", "Hurt", "Belther", "Last Resurrection", "Earthquake", "PPF (Past Present Future)", "Intensity", "My Tripcreator", "Viginti Etduo", "Trance Line", "Zombie", "All Points North", "Speed O.J.", "1000 Miles" etc. has been remixed, sampled and released in a multitude of EDM styles on the records of; Fatboy Slim, Stretch & Vern, Oxia, Peter Bailey, Orion's Voic