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Wall of Voodoo was a New Wave group from Los Angeles best known for the 1983 hit " Mexican Radio ". The band had a sound that was a fusion of synthesizer-based New Wave Music with the Spaghetti Western soundtrack style of Ennio Morricone . FORMATION Wall of Voodoo had its roots in Acme Soundtracks, an unsuccessful , who had been the drummer for Black Randy and the Metrosquad, the first lineup of Wall of Voodoo was born. {Link without Title} The band was named Wall of Voodoo before their first gig in reference to a comment made by Joe Berardi, a friend of Ridgway's. Berardi was listening to some of the Acme Soundtracks music Ridgway and Moreland had created in their studio. When Ridgway jokingly compared the multiple-drum-machine- and Farfisa -organ-laden recordings to Phil Spector's Wall Of Sound , Berardi commented it sounded more like a "wall of voodoo", and the name stuck. 1977–1983
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