SO GET UP & GO INSANE ! The Hit Song That Immortalized JUN JI HYUN 全智賢 전지현 (By Ithaka Darin Pappas)

Ithaka's "So Get Up", The Song That Made JUN JI HYUN (全智賢 전지현) A Star

In 1999, after starring in her first feature film at the age of eighteen, (the little-watched White Valentine), Korean actress Jun Ji-Hyun was still largely unknown.

It was not until later that year when she starred in a hugely popular commercial for Samsung My Jet Printers featuring a remix of Californian songwriter Ithaka Darin Pappas' iconic 1993 vocal-poem song, So Get Up, that, according to most media sources, she became a a public sensation.

The version of So Get Up featured in the campaign (called "Get Up! Go Insane") was made by UK producers Stretch & Vern, who brought Ithaka to the UK to re-record his 1993 classic. The final result, restructured the vocal hook differently from the original, but the overall message was the same, So Get Up...and live life to the fullest ! This anthem of defiance and celebration was exuberantly communicated by Jun Ji-Hyun's dancing dance and attitude in the clip.

The commercial sky-rocketed her from being a relatively unknown actress to being a cultural youth icon for all of South Korea and beyond (and eventually one of Korea's biggest film and television stars).

Ji-Kyun has since gone on to star in Sassy Girl (when of the biggest films in Korean history), You Who Came from the Stars, and The Legend of the Blue Sea.
She has won several national and international awards for her acting ability.

*Note: Ithaka rerecorded his iconic 1993, So Get Up specifically for Stretch & Vern's mix (in the UK, 1996). This is one of the only authorized versions of So Get Up in 25 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf-4C7VYzEw
Also see; So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas

Most Remixed Vocal In History - Guinness World Record - Lyricist: Ithaka Darin Pappas

"So Get Up" Guinness World Record Holder For Most Remixed A Capella (Writer: Ithaka Darin Pappas)

 

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)