Most DJs will claim to have eclectic and wide-ranging tastes, but with this compilation Nickodemus can lay claim to being a truly global DJ. It's nice to have one's own label, of course -- it means that no one can tell you not to put rumba snug up against Italian-Gypsy-Arabic-dub, or stop you from switching quickly from a moombahton track into a throbbing slab of two-step soul. Since Nickodemus has that freedom, The Wonderwheel Spins in 2012 is a fantastic funhouse of beats and styles: you've got swinging hip-hop from Malik Work & the Upstagers ("Let Me See Some ID [Nickodemus Clean ID Remix]"), a tag-team multilingual MC showcase ("Tokyo Minute"), Arabic techno from Ram6 l'Hamorabi ("TNT ARAB"), dancehall panpipe reggae en español from Pernett ("Cumbia Computer [Zeb's Cumbia Reggae Remix]"), and Latin-flavored, violin-driven Middle Eastern house music (in the form of Nickodemus' own "Under the Volcano [Jose Marquez Remix]"). Does all of that make you dizzy just thinking about it? Then you might want to avoid the second disc in the package, which is a funkalicious continuous mix program put together by DJ Nu-Mark (drawing from the whole Wonderwheel label catalog), and which features no fewer than 40 tracks from an even broader variety of artists working in a wider spectrum of musical styles. It's hard to imagine a party that wouldn't be improved by this album.