He recorded All in the Mind over a period of three days in his Brooklyn home studio, using an E-mu SP-1200 and Akai S950 for the production of beats and samples.

The record combines house music with disco and funk, and is characterised by its use of contemporary tribal beats and bass lines and 1970s-style horns and related influences.

Upon release, All in the Mind reached number 74 on the UK Albums Chart, and received positive reviews from music critics.

Among the songs used as the basis for tracks on the album are Wood Brass & Steel's "Funkanova", Atmosfear's "Motivation" and Linda Clifford's "Runaway Love".

"[13] Mixmag said the song's 'genius' lies in "the way it builds up your anticipation with a protracted burst of hard jacking drums and atonal honking before the perfect disco sample soars away into the distance.

"[14] "Sayin' Dope" applies funk characteristics and Latino brass atop beats described by Gareth Grundy of Select as "avant-garde but always accessible.

"[15] "Got Myself Together" samples Brass Construction's "Movin'" and fuses styles of house, disco, funk and hip hop,[12] while "Whew!"

[12][15] After the completion of All in the Mind, Gonzalez showed the album to his friend Johnny "D" DeMario, who ran the house label Henry Street Music.

Gareth Grundy of Select wrote that All in the Mind would "induce a rapid rethink" in those assuming the Bucketheads project dissolved after the success of "The Bomb!"

[15] Leigh Anne Fitzpatrick of Spin felt that the album offered a "refreshing break" from the high-speed sound of techno and rave music.

for its catchy refrain, and felt the remaining tracks "provide the perfect background for any toe-tappin', fist-bumpin', hip-swayin' groove collective.

"[10] The Independent concluded that "these tracks are mashed together with forceful abandon, but the turntable-scratched origins of Gonzalez's samples renders some of the grooves a little brittle and repetitive...

[9] In The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music, writer Colin Larkin wrote that the record "confirmed the promise" laid by "The Bomb!

[11] Reviewing the reissue, Kris Needs of Record Collector wrote that the "cut-and- paste beats and sample-based rough house" would become "a major influence through to the next decade."

(These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)" emerged when house producers began to heavily incorporate the influence of disco in their music, and the song was widely regarded as an example of the fusion.

[13] Charles Aaron of Spin would later describe the song as "essential '90s funk" that mixed styles of electro, house and hip hop.