They're becoming a super-hip outdoor festival act, with high-profile slots at The Governors Ball, Bonnaroo and Coachella already locked in for 2015.
But it was at Auckland's sweltering King's Arms that Seattle duo Odesza plugged in their laptops to kick off their year in front of a crowd lapping up every second of their summery electronica, or, as one mate put it, "dubstep for happy people".
Yes, Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight's "weird music" - their words - and trippy visuals would be better suited to a headlining slot at Rhythm and Vines, but they gave the sweat-drenched and near sellout crowd a reason to dance like it was New Year's Eve all over again.
Odesza cherry-picked highlights from their two albums - 2012's Summer's Gone and last year's In Return - to deliver a perfectly-paced set that moved from the chirpy foot shuffle of How Did I Get Here and Always This Late to the pure aural orgasms of I Want You and Bloom.
They mine the same warped electronic territory as acts like Purity Ring and Passion Pit, drawing on '90s chillwave acts like Groove Armada along the way, with looped vocals and chirpy samples that can give their sunset anthems an occasional Middle Eastern vibe - especially on the stunning stomp of Sundara and ethereal ambience of Echoes.
Some of those looped vocal samples can start veering towards world muzak territory, but Mills and Knight always seem to know when to pull it all back in before it becomes the soundtrack to a new Madagascar movie, adding huge synthy headrushes and thumping hip-hop beats to keep things grounded.
And as recent single All We Need and the night's climax Say My Name showed, crafting songs with more traditional structures - with the latter including a proper chorus and delightful vocal hooks from Zyra - could be a sign of a more mainstream future beckoning for the boys.
But right now, Odesza are the sound of this summer - and hopefully many more summers to come.
Odesza
Where: The King's Arms, Auckland
When: Friday, January 16
- nzherald.co.nz