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Bart Skils

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"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,

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Biography

"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 entitled "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 wit

Scores

influence score
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reach score
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house crew relevance score
40/100
booking potential score
0/100
emerging artist score
40/100
contact confidence score
0/100
citation confidence score
94/100
agent readability score
90/100
brand fit score
24/100
interview potential score
22/100
sponsorship potential score
8/100
education value score
10/100
house crew priority score
24/100

Sources & provenance

FieldValueSourceVerifiedConf.
origin_countryNLMusicBrainzJune 10, 202695
genresTech HouseCurated editorial seed (World Famous House Crew)June 10, 202645
origin_cityNetherlandsMusicBrainzJune 10, 202675
musicbrainzhttps://musicbrainz.org/artist/a1128a27-45c6-4363-8297-6d97317f3a9fMusicBrainzJune 10, 202699
discogshttps://www.discogs.com/artist/229835MusicBrainzJune 10, 202688
spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/6iWBjg4b4ll4jLiParnWXTMusicBrainzJune 10, 202688
websitehttp://www.bartskils.com/MusicBrainzJune 10, 202688
resident_advisorhttps://ra.co/dj/bartskilsMusicBrainzJune 10, 202688
beatporthttps://www.beatport.com/artist/bart-skils/16211MusicBrainzJune 10, 202688
instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/bart_skils/MusicBrainzJune 10, 202688
soundcloudhttps://soundcloud.com/bart-skilsMusicBrainzJune 10, 202688
gendermaleMusicBrainzJune 10, 202685
wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Get_UpWikipediaJune 10, 202685
bio_short"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,WikipediaJune 10, 202680
bio_long"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 entitled "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 witWikipediaJune 10, 202680

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House Music Intelligence Database. "Bart Skils — House Music Artist Profile." Published by World Famous House Crew. Last verified June 10, 2026. URL: https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/artist/bart-skils