Diplo built his anything-goes ethos around the idea that music knows no limits and, essentially, no divisions: Everything can be blended. He puts that theory into triumphant practice on the 2005 mix album FABRICLIVE 24, folding together classic house and techno with hip-hop and alternative. An early sequence of Cybotron, Yazoo, and Debbie Deb hopscotches across the syncopated 808s shared by electro, synth-pop, freestyle, and Miami bass; a head-spinning passage jumps from Ludacris’ “What’s Your Fantasy” into the gritty Brazilian baile funk then coming out of Rio’s favelas, finally landing on a mash-up of Diplo’s “Way More” and M.I.A.’s “Bucky Done Gun,” one of the defining songs of that era of alternative club music. But the closing stretch is the most head-spinning of all, zigzagging through Jammer’s grime, The Cure’s goth-pop, and Outkast’s Southern rap before stumbling into double-time ghetto house, lanky dancehall reggae, and, finally, Cat Power’s “Free.” If FABRICLIVE 24 is a testament to the DJ’s creativity, these final blends are a tour de force of sheer will—and skill.