Da Lama ao Caos

From Mud to Chaos) is the debut album by the Brazilian band Chico Science & Nação Zumbi.

Released in 1994, the album presents a fusion of funk rock and maracatu and contributed for spreading the music of Pernambuco around the world.

Da Lama ao Caos is considered the manifesto of the Manguebeat movement.

[4] In 2022, it was elected as the best Brazilian music album of the last 40 years by a O Globo poll which involved 25 specialists, including Charles Gavin, Nelson Motta, and others.

[6] The back cover is picture of a crab's claw, purportedly zoomed-in so it becomes pixilated and it becomes clear that the image had been developed with a computer.