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Love & Hate is a classic 1980s New York story—one that encompasses the downtown dance clubs, the uptown salsa scene, a rising jazz hero, and one of Manhattan’s most legendary recording studios, and that’s just for starters. At its center is a Polish émigré who left his Russian-occupied homeland for the kind of borderless, cross-cultural experiences that are only possible in a place like New York City. Lamprecht laid down Love & Hate in A&R’s luxurious confines. “It was originally designed to...

An expanded view of Tomek’s 1983 no wave punk funk celebration of the Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument), recorded in the home of Stones producer Jimmy Miller, from the freshly baked original tapes! Funk is a key element of Lamprecht’s musical makeup and the common denominator on “Contract,” “Prelude,” and the previously unreleased “Kill” and “Things Will Come and Pass Like Magic.” “I was paying attention to it and learning from it quite a bit,” he says. “Part of my drumming on the...