Another double upload snapshotting late 80s proto house and cheesiness here.
Tony Shayne seems to have fallen through the cracks of the early wave of Chicago house, with a number of his records on Illinois based Nep-Tune Records going overlooked and un-uploaded.
The design of this record got me drawn in while digging up in Queensland, with the Nep-Tune logo and bright pink lips dripping in early dance music experimentalism, I had to have a further listen.
The first upload, True Blue, is from the Radio Side where all three tracks are far more cheesy. A could have been hit, Shayne is juvenile and heartfelt in his sultry confessions of love, it feels like True Blue could have been on the Top Gun soundtrack in an alternate reality.
Kiss Off (Remix) comes from the Remix Side and has a more endearing array of 80s pop elements for a slept on proto-house jam. Remixed by producers Grant Austin and Larry Strum, who worked on a number of early Chicago classics from Ten City, 'Silk' Hurley and even Larry Heard, it further adds credit the mystique of Tony Shayne as a could have been legend of the early Chicago scene.
