�sound and instrumentation:Slightly garage-sounding psych rock with Portuguese lyric- creative use of 1960s sound processing methods to give a somewhat spacy aspect. This is one of the more commercially rocking tracks from a very creative and groundbreaking psychedelic rock group.
from Os Mutantes (Omplatten/Polydor) available on CD - Everything is Possible: The Best of Os Mutantes (Luaka Bop)
cool high speed clean guitar instrumental with a 1950s tonalizer sound. I feel like I'm watching Sputnik in orbit while hearing a jet break the sound barrier when I listen to this. Deke and the Ecco-Fonics are noted for a phenomenal period-style production on albums, retro but never wistfully nostalgic songwriting, and exceptional virtuosity at live performances. The rest of this CD is loaded with great vocals and hip tunes.
Very mathematical and idiosyncratically textural use of completely conventional rock ensemble instruments (guitar, keysboards, effects petals, vocals, bass guitar, drums.
Featuring a strange assortment of melodic percussion instruments, brass and punctuated with animal calls which are only equaled by those of Roger Waters on Pink Floyd's Umma Gumma, this is BY FAR the strangest (and coolest) version of this song ever recorded. The Residents must have developed their whole series of Mark of the Mole albums after hearing this recording. "Diga Diga Doo" was originally a show tune for a Broadway review called The Blackbirds of 1928.
from Exotic Sounds Visit Broadway (Liberty Records LST-7163) available on CD - The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny (Capitol (Ultra Lounge imprint))