Simply a great piece of work!! One of my all-time fav disco lps. Thanks Patrick!! If u like this I suggest u give a serious listen to Gino Soccio. Another great disco electriconica pioneer.

A double-vinyl, gatefold cover reissue of this classic - with the original album placed on the first and bonus tracks on the second LP - would be very appreciated!

This album is absolutely amazing. If The Who invented rock opera with "Tommy", then Patrick Cowley's "Mind Warp" can be described as a techno opera, reflecting the fact that even if a machine does not make mistakes by itself, this does not automatically mean that the world, in which these machines reside, is a better world. It's the way how mankind is using these machines that determines if they work for or against us. There are many ways to interpret this masterpiece, this is my version.1. "Tech-No-Logical World": we hear an almost perfect interaction between man and machine (Paul Parker's natural voice and Patrick's vocoder voice). But even technology can only function flawlessly when mankind adds logic to it, hence the dashes surrounding "No". At the end of the song, we are slightly approaching the situation in which machines are slightly begin to rule us ("communication network everywhere but the flags of doom unfurled").2. "Invasion": a high-speed hi-NRG tune reflecting the "bigger, better, faster, more" attitude of mankind as well as the things that mankind is about to cope with.3. "They Came At Night": an extraterrestrial / supernatural force is about to stick into the minds of humans.4. "Mind Warp": this is what the force is doing with us. Our intelligence is altered in such a way that we are using our machines to destroy ourselves.5. "Primitive World": this is what is left of us after the destruction. We are nothing more or less than those who never had access to technology. A tribal piece showing a turning point. We are going back to the basic foundation of human life; this is reflected by the chanting "he-ya-he-ya-hey-ya!".6. "Mutant Man": a downtempo / chill-out piece. This expresses the fact we can change our way of thinking. We are starting to free our minds and get rid of destructive thoughts that are killing ourselves.7. "Goin' Home": this reflects mankind has come to senses and has learned from the mistakes it made. You are kindly invited to learn from your mistakes.At the time Patrick conceived this album, he was already in a very bad health state. With songs like "Goin' Home" and "They Came At Night", Patrick was already aware of the fact his disease could not be cured and his life on earth was about to end. He also foresaw that his disease could take a long time to be "mastered" and may even reach such a degree that we will never know how to cure it ("we're going to parts unknown"; at the moment I write this, no cure has been found yet).It remains a very sad fact that this talented and gifted musician died at an early age of only 32 years. Only God knows how our musical spectrum would sound like if he were still alive.

Warning!!! On 3rd pressing an original front cover was slightly altered. Compare an images to 1st and 2nd pressings.Fonts have been changed and Megatone logo absent.

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This is a weird album. Mindwarp itself sounds like a housetracks even before house was 'invented'. Other tracks, like goin' home, have a slower BPM and a different sound, more discolike. So you could consider it as a cross-section of Cowley's repertoire. The remixs on the album are a waste of time. Most don't do credit to the songs remixed. (As stated in the notes track 9 is the worst kind of mix)