Heres the Kick, Theres the Vocals... Nice to Meet You.

Why recently, has there been an influx of dance records where the vocals/samples/elements are not synced up to the kick or main drums?

It's awesome that you got your copy of Ableton/Logic/Cubase and have a super kick you sampled from some hot new electro track and now your going to take the acapella of "I Kissed A Girl" and make your own remix, but WHY WHY WHY is it so hard to actually sync up the vocals people? Go in there and edit the audio until it even feeeeellls right. It's like people take a sample or a vocal, start it on the one, and close their eyes and drive down a road hoping not to run into anything. Chances are theres going to be some timing differences so get in there and adjust words, lines, syllables, beats until that shits locked down. Thats what ReCycle and all those beat splicing and dicing programs are for.

If you're going to sample a loop from an old record, truncate it and do some audio surgery on it until it syncs up, don't just loop the loop and throw a beat under it, because after you pile on the 20 tracks of gratuitous elements the whole thing sounds like the music equivalent of a drunk driver.

And enough with the "I Kissed A Girl" remixes, I think 20 is enough. We get it, she kissed a girl, she liked it. Wheres the "I Kissed A Girl" and "Girls Kiss Girls" mash up?