Dance rock duos that use prerecorded beats and sounds have taken the music industry into a new, technological age. Through their digitized music, bands like Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers and Ratatat have gained popularity with their pulsing rhythms and electronic harmonies and eccentric live performances.

Marquette two-piece, Beards of Paradise, inject their own stylized, hip shaking melodies to Point East Pub, 1501 N. Jackson St., on Friday at 8 p.m. And they're opening for another Milwaukee electronic duo, French Horn Rebellion, orchestrated by two brothers currently residing in New York City.

Harrison Dole, a senior in the College of Communication, plays synthesizer and sings for Beards of Paradise under his stage name Superwolf – a homage to his favorite Bonnie "Prince" Billy album. His band mate John Marston, a senior in the College of Communication, plays guitar and sings under the name John St. Jesús.

Dole said the band sounds like "Ratatat meets disco" and also very similar to headliners French Horn Rebellion.

The band started out playing friends' parties under a different moniker and then played a Marquette Battle of the Bands at the Union Sports Annex, Dole said. They had to change their name to Beards of Paradise because their original name was a bit too vulgar for a university-sponsored event. The change wasn't all that bad.

"I thought Beards of Paradise was a somewhat interesting band name," Dole said. "It's unusual. It's kind of funny. People smile when they hear it."

In order to play live shows, the band needs to record different beats and sounds on a computer that back the songs they play. Each pre-recorded track usually consists of drum and bass tracks, a couple of guitar and synthesizer parts and sometimes backing vocals.

"When we write songs, someone has a main idea," Dole said. "We'll jam on it and expand on it, add different parts to the songs. Since we do it on the computer it's really easy to edit it. We can move things around. It's a lengthy process.

"To record it doesn't take very long," he said, "but to get it to how we want it to be takes maybe two weeks."

But most of all, Beards of Paradise is all about having a good time, Dole said.

They try come up with interesting song titles like "SnailsnTails," an instrumental song that's "left open for interpretation," he said.

For the Annex show, Beards of Paradise were clad in ripped white T-shirts and colorful, blinking Walgreens lights.

"We might bring back the light shirts," Dole said about his show this Friday.