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Douglas Wolk: “Diplo's also got an album of his own, Florida; beyond "Diplo Rhythm," a pastiche of the stuff he spins, it's mostly in palm-to-chin DJ Shadow territory—technically solid, but not bugout-able. His deepest work so far, though, is a mix called Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1: a collaboration with M.I.A., a Sri Lankan British MC-producer-painter who designed the cover of the last Elastica album and dances like a happy spaz in her on-the-cheap video for "Galang." (PFT isn't on any label. You can get it by throwing your hands in the air and hoping somebody tosses you one. M.I.A.'s got an actual album coming out next year, though.) There's some baile funk here too, helpfully labeled as "Baile Funk One," "Two," and "Three"; also some Missy, LL, Cutty Ranks, and a boast of pop catholicism in M.I.A.'s "Fire Fire" that Diplo answers by hooking its beat up with the entire a cappella of the Bangles' "Walk Like an Egyptian."”