Perfect Alignment

The structure of a track is what gives the track meaning it is the foundation and without a firm foundation your track will fall apart. Structuring your track is one of the most if not the most important things you can do to insure the sound produced out of the speakers is the sound in your head. Working in the  House/Dance/Techno/Dubstep scene I have seen many songs that have great potential fail due to mis alignment of the tracks. They slap up the ideas really quickly (and most times sloppily) in the DAW then find sounds they like and work solely on the sound and dynamics of the track. Then in the end when the song is "all done" they wonder why it does not sound right. When creating a track it is of the upmost importance to make sure all the sounds are aligned or appropriately misaligned when doing the initial put down of the ideas from instrument to DAW it is ok to have them a little off, but when you are done with the initial ideas. Spend the time to go back and make sure every drum kick is on the note it should be, the synths, guitars, pads, etc... are all in perfect alignment with each other. In the end when it is all said and done the song that is structured and put together carefully and correctly will overshadow the other songs completely. People notice small details and when your kick is a little off people notice and it shows that a. you do not know what you are doing or b. you are lazy. Take the time to build a proper foundation with your songs it will pay off in the end.