Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone (1986)

I'm gunna be sharing FM tracks all summer, because dammit, FM got the shaft by the time the 90s synths rolled out. This is a return to form.

So much of what made the 80s sound like the 80s was the fact that no one had heard FM used in a musical and harmonic way on commercial products before then. There was a time when this sound was a legitimately new sonic experience, and cutting edge. And huge budget movies like Top Gun, and actors like Tom Cruise are subtly immortalized by one particular sound. When people say they love FM Bass, this is what they mean.

The Quintessential FM Bass Experience. Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone. 1986. Feel it.