I nnovation is paramount to the electronic music aesthetic.
Flow is nearly tantamount.
Groove Armada achieves neither on their debut Vertigo . They never make an attempt at innovation and struggle unsuccessfully to create a flow. The album sounds like an electronic sampler offered by a modest MP3 site rather than a cohesive work. There are a number of strong tracks on the album, but their power is deluded by the insipidly formulaic pieces that surround them. If the Armada boys were looking to be taken seriously they made the wrong choice in samples.