Nicolas Jaar (live) @ The Arches, 29 July

If space is only noise that you can see, then prepare to wander into a parallel world of electronic sounds when Nicolas Jaar plays at The Arches on 29 July. Originally inspired to create music at the tender age of 14 by a Ricardo Villalobos' album, The Au Harem D'Archimede, there is an apparent connection between the two artists for having a link to Chile, but since Jaar has said he "kind of hates techno," then the association may just end there.

While Villalobos is commonly seen to be in a state of eternal ecstasy while he plays for his audiences in nightclubs, Jaar is put off by clubs in his native USA and has said he finds them to be "ravey and really cheesy," so what he will make of the deep dark alcoves of the Glasgow club remains to be seen. Hard to strictly pin down into one musical genre however, the 20-year-old is very much influenced by instrumental hip-hop artists such as DJ Babu, Madlib, J Dilla and The Alchemist, as well as the highly individualistic jazz stylings of Keith Jarret. His 2011 tour sees the Jaar take to the stage with a full live band, setting free the notion that electronic music is mastered by one tempo alone.