Nicolas Jaar

‏While the decision to sell his record label’s compilation Don’t Break My Love as a $40 aluminum box with headphone jacks raised some eyebrows, Nicolas Jaar is no stranger to brash conceptualism, having grown up the son of a celebrated Chilean installation artist. The newly minted Brown University grad began his electronic music career at the age of 17 by releasing quirky, minimalist techno-flavored pieces with Brooklyn’s Wolf + Lamb crew, clearing the path for 2011’s debut LP, Space Is Only Noise — a masterpiece of downtempo (non-)grooves that owes as much to Ethiopian jazz, Portuguese fado, and classical French avant-garde as it does to conventional four-to-the-floor dance sounds. Whenever he’s not busy enrapturing audiences with his ensemble-backed live shows, Jaar can be heard indulging a newfound penchant for collaborating with celebrity progeny like Scout LaRue Willis and Sasha Spielberg. (Saturday, 4:45-5:45, Blue Stage) –text: Mark Calaguas