Stevie Wonder - Dark 'n' Lovely (1987)

There is something amazing about hearing a master at their craft take on synths in the era when synths were brand new. I love that Stevie Wonder totally adopted the synth sound in 1987, and was killing it on the keys the entire time. This is a banger of a track, with so much subtle articulation on that synth bass, among every thing else.

Stevie was nice enough to leave the start of this song untouched with nothing but that synth bass. I think he has a bunch of stuff layered together. If I had to guess, I would say he has an FM bass and an analog synth bass layered, but it might just be a pair of FM basses. at a certain point in the song too, he throws in a Clav for good measure. But the whole time, the dude is just playing his ass off, bass, synths and all.