CHICK WEBB & ELLA FITZGERALD: Get Low, Get High (JPOD remix) (2014) Free download

Ella Fitzgerald JPODJPOD reboots Chick Webb and Ella Fitzgerald’s 30s swing anthem, When I Get Low, I Get High by chucking a bass n breaks V12 under the hood and whittling the conveniently evocative title down to the even more obviously dance music/ drug-referencing Get Low Get High. Sometimes you wonder how those innocent old tunes can be so presciently named don’t you? Until a quick google reveals the original’s presence on a compilation entitled Reefer Blues: Vintage Songs About Marijuana. That’s right kids, your great-grandparents did drugs and dug dance music too. Apparently this is the first in what is set to be a weekly drop. Cop it below:

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