Here we have two totally distinct electronic musicians both working
at the top of their game. The Juan MacLean’s latest, The Future Will
Come (DFA), expertly mixes Human League–style
synth-pop (with female vocal counterpoints supplied by longtime
collaborator Nancy Whang) with classic house to craft surprisingly
sincere songs about robots and humans, love and heartbreak. On
the Field’s new one, Yesterday and Today (Kompakt), the Swedish
producer expands his blissed-out, microsampled techno with increased
live instrumentation (including a little drumming from Battles
heavyweight John Stanier) for an album as sublime as his debut,
only with more subtlety and depth. (Nectar, 412 N 36th St, 632-2020.
8 pm, $15, 21+.)