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 techni

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.