Popular Pacific Northwest electronic groups Beat Connection and ODESZA will bring two distinct brands of shimmery, glitched-out electro-pop music to Eugene Thursday night at the WOW Hall.

ODESZA produces the type of music that screams summer. The group is made up of Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight, two college friends who reached instantaneous Internet success after dropping their 2012 LP, “Summer’s Gone.” The album is driven by sweeping bass lines, bright guitar keys and lyrical samples evoking a sense of blissful nostalgia. It’s the type of music best served with a cold beer atop a friend’s roof or driving solo up the coast on a summer day. It would take a truly cold individual to contain him or herself from bobbing their head to these infectious melodies. This is ODESZA’s second appearance at the WOW Hall this year (they recently opened for Emancipator), and it will likely not be their last.

Beat Connection is similarly composed of two college buddies. Reed Juenger and Jordan Koplowitz met as freshmen at a party on the University of Washington campus and started mixing music together shortly afterward. In July 2010, the duo self-released their debut EP, “Surf Noir.” The album epitomized the type of contagious chillwave music many groups would make their own in the following year. After the buzz surrounding their debut EP subsided, the group grew from a duo to a trio, adding a full-time rhythm section. Their brand of electronic-driven pop music is more tropical sounding than ODESZA’s, but both encapsulate the sound and energy of summer.

Beat Connection played at Sasquatch Music Festival last year and revitalized a tired and hung-over afternoon crowd. It looks like ODESZA will follow in their footsteps this year — if you can’t catch ODESZA this Thursday, you can find them on the El Chupacabra Stage at Sasquatch! on May 27.

Beat Connection plays with ODESZA May 9, 2013, at the WOW Hall. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Show starts at 9 p.m.