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.

Now, however, he is blasting the future back into the brass past. He's remaking Daft Punk for a brass band.

Like Electronola, "Brassft Punk" has also been funded through Kickstarter. The project has exceeded its $10,000 goal by over $3,000. The plan is to record an EP of Daft Punk's best-known tracks with a NOLA brass band. The songs include "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger," "One More Time," "Around the World," and "Da Funk."

"I was originally looking through my electronic music collection for a whole album to redo," Scioneaux told Ars. "But I wasn’t really finding anything. But Daft Punk's greatest hits I thought would translate well. It's danceable stuff and brass bands are upbeat dancing kind of music."

Scioneaux has already written the arrangement for the first and is working on those for the other three. He will be hiring local New Orleans musicians, which, given his connection to the city's musical community in general and the Preservation Hall in particular, shouldn't be a challenge. The final product, to debut in a hybrid coming out party at Preservation Hall in December, will be available as a download and also on vinyl. As New Orleans music magazine Offbeat noted, Scioneaux also plans (if the donations continue) to possibly "offer access to multitrack stems of the record, which would allow listeners and DJs to remix the songs themselves."

Sometimes when musicians mess around with traditional music, they get cracked upside the head by purists. Gangstagrass, for instance, took criticism for their alleged adulteration of bluegrass with rap. It is no different in New Orleans, according to Quickie Mart, one of the city's first electronic dance musicians to gain national respect and one of the two brains behind the EDM-bounce-Balkan-LatAm act, Gypsyphonic.

"New Orleans purists are stubborn, and they like to keep it local and off the map," he told Ars. "They are not open minded to original jazz and funk being fused and altered. To them, it's almost sacrilegious. But to me, and a lot of younger musicians and listeners, it's how music has always been created, and how new genres are birthed."

As a new generation moves under the spotlight, this attitude is bound to change. Quickie Mart believes acceptance is inevitable, if not imminent.

"People need progression with music, and I think that's why these trends are so successful."

New Orleans it seems is not just a musical twisterberry freakout but a technological one as well. When Scioneaux used Kickstarter for Electronola back in 2009, it was not well known, having only launched the previous year. It had yet to fund wristwatches and video games. But Scioneaux knew about it because his former roommate was none other than Kickstarter's founder Perry Chen. Baio of Kind of Bloop was Kickstarter's first CTO and founder of Upcoming.

Whether we're talking about music or technology, mixing up the armbones is the bane of the frightened and nectar to the fearless. Brassft Punk combines both.

"Tools to make music better and more affordable are creating a sort of a parabolic curve," said Scioneaux. "The ability to make an idea into reality is becoming more accessible to more people."

This sort of tech-driven cross-pollination is an increasing aspect of music making. It will, no doubt, produce a lot of dross, but some of what shines brightly will surely be gold. Will one of his Brassft Punk compositions make it into the repertoire of New Orleans' famous second-line bands? Scioneaux laughed.

"Man, if I were on the street and heard (a Brassft Punk song) as one of the parade bands came around the corner," he said, "that would make my day."