After three albums – one tropicalist, one experimentalist and one revolutionary – the Mutantes launched their weirdest record. It is very much what the cover suggests: the group messing around with their electric paraphernalia, acoustic instruments and some stimulants. Just have a look at this: for the first time, when Rita Lee and Sergio Dias are also composers, the sequence for the credits is: L for Lee, S for Sergio and D for Dias, like in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Jardim Eletrico is an album inside a party. It brings another hit: ‘Top Top’ an infernal hard rock; ‘Jardim Eletrico’ a sweet English version of ‘Baby’; and a tribute-parody of Tim Maia’s Bemvinda (Welcomed Lady). Completing the album are ‘Technicolor’; ‘El Justiceiro’; ‘It’s Very Nice pra Xuxu’; ‘Virginia’; ‘Lady, Lady’; ‘Batmacumba’ and ‘Sarava’ (both a references to the Brazilian afro religious rituals). (Marcelo Dolabela, Oct/Nov 1999).

1-Top Top
2-Benvinda
3-Tecnicolor
4-El Justiciero
5-It’s Very Nice Pra Xuxu
6-Portugal de Navio
7-Virgínia
8-Jardim Elétrico
9-Lady, Lady
10-Saravá
11-Baby