Millie Scott - Automatic (1986)

Coming out of no where, this track blind sided me. Neither the vocalist, the writer or the producer are musicians I had heard of before, and thus a new rabbit hole is opened.

Super fat and steamy synth bass, perfect for smokey 80s photo shoots. This sound never ceases to conjure the images so perfectly captured in this music video, haha.

Gotta love that nearly everything in this track is subtle synth too. Even the horn solo is synth, I think. And very reminiscent of some of Blade Runner's chiller moments. It's all very subtle though. Something I still have yet to put in to practice, less really can be more. Just slap a fat bass line on a slammin' drum track and lightly pepper those synths in just enough to give it a futuristic 80s vibe. That's the ticket.