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You don't really need to mix classical music and pop. I mean, if you listen to some of Mozart’s sonatas or operas you have the mix already and most people who go further end up producing awful music. I think the whole point of prog rock was to try and reproduce classical techniques in rock music, and the majority of talent less hacks who tried ended up producing pedantic and joyless music.
African music makes for some interesting mixes with Western music. Ali Farka Toure is a Mali musician who plays traditional folk music from Mali with strong influences from American Blues, which is pretty cool.
Most attempts to synthesize different styles of music don't really work. You end up with complete failures like Gogol Bordello. Although, Bela Bartok wrote some very good pieces based on Hungarian, Romanian and Gypsy folk music which is definitely worth listening to.
Hala Strana also comes to mind. They are part of the Jeweled Antler Collective and they play Eastern European music mixed with drone and such.
I don't know, I'm not sure if this helps or not.
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