Westbam ’97 Loveparade „Get Up! Go Insane!“ (Stetch n Vern ft. Ithaka)

Westbam plays „GET UP! GO INSANE! by Stretch n Vern feat. Ithaka – Love Parade, Berlin 1997 – …

1997 was a time of clubbing excess and superstar DJs, when dance music crossed over to the mainstream and when Stretch & Vern were in the prime of their colorful career. On the back of the success of their hit ‘I’m Alive’ that set clubs alight, they released their follow up hip hop meets club soundtrack ‘Get Up Go Insane’.

Receiving global pick up ‘Get Up Go Insane’ reached No.1 in the Billboard charts and was the opening to WestBam’s 1997 Love Parade set in Berlin where the duo were guests of honor. Standing on the platform built around the Golden Else they saw the monumental moment when the track was dropped and 1.3million people jumped up for their own production.
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Ever since the initial release of the USL version of „So Get Up“ in 1994, the parties involved; Kaos Records, Tribal America and USL members (DJ Vibe and Rui da Silva), have presented „So Get Up“ as an entirely 100% Portuguese track, apparently for marketing reasons…even though it was actually a preexisting song written and recorded almost a full year earlier by Ithaka Darin Pappas (a Greek-American from California, only temporarily residing in Lisbon) originally made for his own album project,
So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas.

Two acapella versions of „So Get Up“ (a song that changed the entire electronic-music economy of Portugal during the 1990’s) were released by USL in the United States by Tribal America, a subsidiary of E.M.I. without ANY authorization from the lyricist/vocalist.

Ithaka, an award-winning hip hop vocalist and songwriter, was not paid royalties or even given a featuring credit on his own raw vocal.

In 1995, the USL version charted at #83 on the UK pop charts.

In 1997, Stretch N Vern’s „Get Up! Go Insane!“, using the same vocal recording, charted at #17 (UK).

Meat Katie also had success in the late 1990’s with „Next Life“ using the same acapella.

In 2013, Cosmic Gate reworked „So Get Up“ into a trance version stadium banger, becoming one of the duo’s most recognizable songs,
(again, using the existing acapella with No vocal credit given)…
even manufacturing T-Shirts utilizing Ithaka’s lyrics, with no mention of the author.

The release of the uncredited 1994 acapella versions had created a snowball effect of illegal „So Get Up“ remix versions that continues until the present.

Today (in 2020), with more than one-thousand released remixes, it is
The Most Remixed Vocal Acapella In Musical History, yet vocally/lyrically,
it largely remains anonymous.
Ithaka’s vocal poem „So Get Up“ has been musically interpreted by producers of literally every sub-genre of electronic music; Progressive House, Deep House, Techno, Tech House, Trance, Dream Trance, Big Beat, Drum n Bass, Trip Hop, Downtempo, Hardcore, Gabber etc etc etc…
and has appeared by the alternative titles of; „See You In The Next Life“, „Forget The Past“, „The End Of The Earth“, „Hardventure“, „Headcharge“, „Belther“, „Last Resurrection, „PPF (Past, Present, Future)“, „Intensity“, „Soultech!“, „Phat Prick“, „Trance Line“, „Have A Blast!“ etc, etc, etc.

„So Get Up“ and it’s derivatives have sold (unofficially) 30,000,000+ copies
since 1993.

Lyrics written (and vocalized) by: © Ithaka Darin Pappas
Publishers: Ravenshark Music/Scion Four Music (NY)/ASCAP

„SO GET UP“

THE END OF THE EARTH IS UPON US

PRETTY SOON ITLL 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 YOULL LICK THE FLOOR

CUZ, 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

“SO GET UP” REMIX ARTISTS INCLUDE: Armin Van Buuren, Fatboy Slim, Danny Tenaglia, Junior Vasquez, Dj Vibe, 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, Miss Kittin, Dave Seaman, Dade (ITA), Carlos Walker, Alien Project, Second Nature, Pomella, Br1an, DJ Healer, Traumprinz, Joseph LP, Rab-Beat , Pirro, Matheu, Neanderthal Phonogram, Omar Lopez, Liquid Viking, MotivBreaks, Chaka & Marty,

Jay Dahbi, Hu Bee, Frankyeffe, Township Rebellion, Rui Flip, Dani Villa, Rodri Vegas, ZRG, Swing Kings, Acti, Antolini, DANTEE, Alternative Journey, Nell Silva, Geometric Dark, Pepo, Pacho, Club Atlas, Branko, Buraka Som Sistema, Alex Di Stefano, TNT, Zatox, Marc Hartman, Meat Katie, Samir Kuliev, Lee Burridge, Razat, Alex Page, DJ Kryst-Off, Breaker, Micromakine, Gu’Brian, Trolley Snatcha, Mr. Argenis, Dani Sbert, Atmozfears, David Bowie
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