I don’t remember how I stumbled across this band. It might have been a Bandcamp feature and I certainly remember being intrigued by their Bandcamp page and album description, not to mention the eye-catching album cover by the artist Ceaux. The music of the 79ers Gang is described as “rooted in the unique traditions of New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian culture.” This much is obvious on first listen to opening track “79ers Bout To Blow.” But what’s also immediately obvious is that these traditions are modernized with electronic elements to create something that sounds new, a collaboration between technology and tradition as much as it is a collaboration between two unlikely partners.