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Late 60s, early 70s had the best combination of technology & limitations to create some of the most memorable music. Go much earlier than that & everything sou

Late 60s, early 70s had the best combination of technology & limitations to create some of the most memorable music. Go much earlier than that & everything sounds hollow. Too much later ( I'm looking at you, 1980s) and everything is polished & synthetic to phoniness.

Kye 3y ago
Every generation seems to think the technical limitations of their era produced superior art; the previous generation was always too limited, and the following always have it too easy. They might be right for themselves, but it's clear the situation is much more subjective than the absolutes that get thrown around. The 1980s gave us samplers that could only do a few seconds of audio, and entire genres were built on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJf9Jptq7VY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJf9Jptq7VY People who came up then probably feel the same way you do, but about samplers with no practical limits.
- Lio 3y ago
  You're making an assumption that the parent's age and ignoring the possibility that they actually just think that the 60s/70s had the best combination of technical ability to limitation. I came up in the 90s (that's actually when sampler based music really took off vs using turntables or tape to loop things). I still think the 60s/70s had better trade off between limitation to technical capabilities. Studio time used to be unbelievably expensive, so people didn't mess around. I love Goldie's Inner City Life (1994) and DJ Shadow's Endtroducing, they really changed things for me. Neither would be the same if they didn't have the source material to sample from.
  - gilmore606 3y ago
    > Studio time used to be unbelievably expensive, so people didn't mess around. Except some of the best music from that era is from rich people who COULD mess around (Dark Side of the Moon, for example). The 80s/90s opened that up to poor scumbags like myself.
- aswanson 3y ago
  I came up in the late 80s/early 90s sampling era. Guess what era of music most samples we used came from?
- gilmore606 3y ago
  You're right, because that's how I feel about the 90s and MODtracker music. Best era, best limitations.
  - Kye 3y ago
    I got my start with OpenMPT. The tools I have now usually feel like an upgrade, but not always.

Kye 3y ago

Every generation seems to think the technical limitations of their era produced superior art; the previous generation was always too limited, and the following always have it too easy. They might be right for themselves, but it's clear the situation is much more subjective than the absolutes that get thrown around. The 1980s gave us samplers that could only do a few seconds of audio, and entire genres were built on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJf9Jptq7VY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJf9Jptq7VY People who came up then probably feel the same way you do, but about samplers with no practical limits.

Lio 3y ago
You're making an assumption that the parent's age and ignoring the possibility that they actually just think that the 60s/70s had the best combination of technical ability to limitation. I came up in the 90s (that's actually when sampler based music really took off vs using turntables or tape to loop things). I still think the 60s/70s had better trade off between limitation to technical capabilities. Studio time used to be unbelievably expensive, so people didn't mess around. I love Goldie's Inner City Life (1994) and DJ Shadow's Endtroducing, they really changed things for me. Neither would be the same if they didn't have the source material to sample from.
- gilmore606 3y ago
  > Studio time used to be unbelievably expensive, so people didn't mess around. Except some of the best music from that era is from rich people who COULD mess around (Dark Side of the Moon, for example). The 80s/90s opened that up to poor scumbags like myself.
aswanson 3y ago
I came up in the late 80s/early 90s sampling era. Guess what era of music most samples we used came from?
gilmore606 3y ago
You're right, because that's how I feel about the 90s and MODtracker music. Best era, best limitations.
- Kye 3y ago
  I got my start with OpenMPT. The tools I have now usually feel like an upgrade, but not always.