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Patrick Cowley - Mind Warp [SPLK-7053 CAN 2005 16-Bit FLAC]

Originally released as a vinyl album on Megatone Records (M 1004) in 1982, here is the cd resiiue with extra tracks of disco champion Patrick Cowley's Mind Warp album which was a zillion miles ahead of everybody else in the electro-disco arena.

On October 1982, the songwriter and producer Patrick Cowley observed the release event for his third solo album, Mind Warp, from the mezzanine of the glamorous Galleria event space at the San Francisco Design Center. Cowley, the disco innovator who spawned hi-NRG - an up-tempo, mechanized strain of dance music calibrated for the peak of the party- wore black patent-leather pants and a matching jacket. 

The sickly-sweet smell of the inhalant club drug known as poppers wafted up from the dance floor, where gay men dressed in jeans and white T-shirts churned to the album’s breathless pulse. But the revelry belied the grim content of Mind Warp, a meditation on the body besieged that Cowley created while withering from the effects of a mysterious affliction.

Cowley died almost exactly a month later from AIDS-related illness at home in the Castro district. He was just 32.

Most of the above was pilfered and corrected to Queen's English from a NY Times article on Cowley.

01 Tech-No-Logical World
02 Invasion
03 They Came At Night
04 Mind Warp
05 Primitive World
06 Mutant Man
07 Goin' Home
08 Invasion (Remix)
09 Mind Warp (Remix)
10 Goin' Home (Remix)
11 Tech-No-Logical World (Instrumental)
12 Tech-No-Logical World (Radio Edit)