I've always felt that musicians get too worked up about their music being perfectly "in time". Personally, I am quite comfortable living on the more chaotic side of music making. This is partly due to laziness, but also due to a fondness for error in an otherwise orderly medium of sound and silence.

However, many would disagree. Tight timing is so important to the likes of John Digweed that he even dusted off his old Atari for the sole purpose of achieving precise MIDI timing. "We're very hot on timing", he once said. Personally, I fucking hate that mindset.

On the other hand, people like Kieren Hebden (Four Tet) feel that when sounds drift in and out of time it gives electronic music more soul.

Where do you place yourself on the orderly-chaos scale?