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 of 1992 for a program called Quarto Bairro on Rádio Comercial in Lisbon.

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 Voice, JJ Mullor, Dani Sbert, Lexington Avenue, Dylan, Derek Marin, Public Domain, K-Traxx, Technoboy, Bob Ray & Van Dyuk, Ben Gold, Pelari, Meat Katie and many others.

[15] In 1995, a remix of "So Get Up", retitled "Trance Line" by the Madrid production team Committee (Dimas Carbajo and J.J. De La Fuente) rose to #3 in January 1995 on the Billboard Singles Chart for Spain, remaining in the Top Ten for more than a month.

Committee's Trance Line versions, which also had several mixes of their own utilized all of Ithaka's original vocal, but none of Underground Sound Of Lisbon's instrumental.

[17] Six remixes were initially made of "So Get Up" in 2014, but because two a capellas were included in the first U.S. and U.K. releases on Tribal Records, rogue musical versions using the vocal have snowballed out of control.

"So Get Up" by its individual producers and DJs has been played or performed at large-scale dance parties around the global such as the Electric Daisy Carnival in New York and Orlando (2016) as interpreted by Cosmic Gate.

In early 2017, Armin Van Buuren opened a vinyl set at his own A State of Trance festival in Utrecht, Netherlands by playing the "So Get Up" a capella from 1994.

In the year 2000, a trance remix of Ithaka's "So Get Up" (entitled "See You In The Next Life") by Italian DJs, Atlantis, appeared during the closing titles sequence of the British feature film Sorted, directed by Alexander Jovy and starring Matthew Rhys, Sienna Guillory, Ben Moor and Tim Curry.

[22][23] The soundtrack also includes songs by; Leftfield, Morcheeba, Public Enemy, Elvis Presley, Matt Darey, Southsugar, The Turtles, Mauro Picotto, Paul Johnson, Aphrodite, Agnelli & Nelson, Funky G, Gibson Brothers, St. Etienne, Kadda Cherif Hadria, Disposable Disco Dubs, Six Degrees, Da Hool, Highgate, Art Of Trance, Scott 4, Depeche Mode, Twisted Pair, Lost Tribe, and CRW.

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 soon released internationally as a ten-mix, double-vinyl set on New York's Tribal Records (a subsidiary of I.R.S.

Since 1995, the song has been remixed over a thousand times including versions by such performers as Fat Boy Slim, Junior Vasquez, Danny Tenaglia, and Cosmic Gate, and has appeared on over one hundred compilations with combined sales in the millions.