“Voodoo People” by The Prodigy

"Voodoo People" was the third single off Music for the Jilted Generation, the Prodigy's second album, and it hit in September 1994 on XL as the group's eighth single all told. Liam Howlett wrote and produced it and mixed it with Neil McLellan, and the hook comes from an unlikely place: a guitar riff based on Nirvana's "Very Ape", played by guest Lance Riddler.

Critics heard worlds colliding. Melody Maker called the Prodigy a feral Led Zep for the decade, flooding psychedelic techno with bluesy jungle rhythms and metal riffing, and the Gavin Report heard fuzzed-out electronics racing like an autobahn chase under the wail of sirens. Walter Stern and Russell Curtis shot the video in Saint Lucia, and Mute brought the track to the US as a 12-inch and an EP in 1995.

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