Triptych - Edinburgh

It's a great achievement when musicians manage to produce a piece of work that can so brilliantly reflect such a wide scope of their influences, as Brighton's electronica krautpop-tastic Fujiya & Miyagi have done. Traces of their faves, from Talking Heads to Captain Beefheart to Kraftwerk are highly recognisable in their recent second release, Transparent Things.

It's an alluring mix of delicate but danceable beats and synths with soft-spoken yet punchy vocals that create undeniably cool tunes, drawing in both indie and dancehall ears alike. The trio, aka David Best, Steve Lewis and Matt Hainsby have already been tied to Jaguar's 'Gorgeous' campaign advert with their successful single Collarbone, as well as being a subject on last year's This is Our Music documentary series on MTV2 (The Bongo Club, 8pm, £8, 27 April)!

We'll just call him Ewan Pearson, but this DJ is known by many monikers, including Maas, Sulky Pup, and Dirtbox, outputting in-demand house and techno. Pearson, signed to Glasgow's Soma, has remixed for big names like The Chemical Brothers and Depeche Mode and cites The Pet Shop Boys, Dusty Springfield and Bjork as influences. Imagine listening to his music in a shiny, fast car. Or on top of it. Or at Cabaret Voltaire in Edinburgh on 25 April - it's free before 12am and only £2 after so you've got no excuse (11pm-3am)!

Pulsating techno with sonorous beats may not be the first thing one conjures at the thought of the land of romantic gestures and extravagant art, but this Montpellier pair prove that there's more to France than the sappy stereotypes: Oliver Mateu and Gilles Escoffier began professionally crafting music with one another eight years ago. Since then, they've released the critically-acclaimed albums Lemon Orange and The Army of 1.0 under Laurent Garnier's F-Communcation label, and continue to take their eletromagnetic energy all over Europe. Next stop is Edinburgh's Cabaret Voltaire, (11pm-3am, £10, 28 April) where they'll be supported by Carl Legend, Jay Steinveg, Laurie Duncan and Cactus. Sentimental slow dancers need not apply.

Say yes to tyrannical basslines and dark, dirty beats as DJ Distance attacks Edinburgh's Bongo Club (11pm, £9, 26 Apr) with his dubstep and breakcore juggernauts. Distance, the Rinse FM selecta, manipulates d&b, hip hop, metal, breakstep and more to create menacing soundfeasts laced with obscure cinematic samples. His approaching set at Yardcore alongside the likes of Hellfish and Breakage are an apt indication of his niche in the London scene, and with a veritable catalogue of releases via innovators Hotflush, Sting, Destructive, and Boka, his long-awaited debut is due for release on Planet Mu later this year.

Also at the Bongo, Scotland's own The Great Ezcape are not to be missed, delivering some of the best beats'n'rhymes the northern hip hop scene could ask for. Profisee and Vigilante have undoubtedly gone from strength to strength since they self-released the mighty Escapades in '06. Radio 1, 1Xtra and Kiss FM all bigged them up with a tirade of airplay, and you are most graciously advised to catch one of their formidable shows while they're still playing relatively intimate venues. It surely won't last (11pm-3am, £14, 27 Apr).

Master of atmosphere and the eternal chillax, Chris Coco is due to play Cabaret Voltaire on 26 Apr (11pm-3am, £6/£4). You may remember him from BBC Radio 1's The Blue Room, the after-hours treatise for slaves to the nocturnal, but Coco also helped to chaperone the acid house revolution in the late eighties, equally encouraging the germination and subsequent flourishing of chillout as a genre. Careful crafted diversity and a dash of brooding electronica consistently insinuate themselves with his work.

And from the downbeat to the Detroit, we move to the Jazz Bar on 28 Apr for Kenny Dixon Jr, perhaps better known as Detroit house pusher Moodymann, appearing with the Trouble DJs (11pm-3am, £12). Dixon is one of the few in electronic dance music to channel a confrontational political stance through his music - a unique brand of tech-house which comes riddled with references to Detroit's heritage of soul, funk and jazz, a nod to the acid era, and appropriated choice samples from b-movies, soft porn and blaxpolitation films.

Alternatively, get ready for earth-trembling reggae and dub as Messenger Soundsystem take the floor at the Bongo on the same evening (11pm-3am, £10, 28 Apr). For two decades now they've throbbed and reverberated original roots to redden your eyes and open your mind, ranging from the lazy and hazy to the loud and proud. A cultural selection of MCs, effects galore and last but certainly not least, the phenomenal soundsystem itself are three fantastic reasons to check it out.