Daft Punk gets the New Orleans treatment

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Electronic musicians and DJs often repurpose the music of old for a new audience, like Andy Baio's 8-bit Miles Davis rebuild, Kind of Bloop. Others reinterpret old music with the vocabulary of electronica, occasionally to great success, like New Orleans' Gypsyphonic Disko and Toronto's A Tribe Called Red. Still others unite styles of music that have normally been ill at ease with one another, like Gangstagrass's hip hop and bluegrass.

But nobody takes electronica and reinterprets it with a traditional NOLA brass band. Check that. Earl Scioneaux, III does.

Scioneaux, also known as Madd Wikkid, is the recording engineer at the venerable jazz Mecca Preservation Hall, and for the Preservation Hall Jazz band, the musical griots of the city. He is also a producer and musician. He is responsible for one traditionally non-traditional project already, Electronola, which melds the Crescent City's traditional sounds with electronica, and features, among other musicians, drummer Jason Marsalis, bassist James Singleton, and vocalist John Boutte.

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