When a restless audience opens a sold out show with chants of, “Oh Ee Oh, Chromeo,” you know you’re probably in for a treat. And at their first ever show in D.C., Chromeo killed it. Chromeo is Patrick Gemayel and David Macklovitch, boyhood friends who describe themselves as, “the only successful Arab/Jewish collaboration since the beginning of time.” In addition to their ethnic differences, the pair is also visually… distinct. Macklovitch, the lead singer, is as tall and lanky as his counterpart is short and round. When it comes to their sound, the Montreal-based duo crank out extra funky, tongue-in-cheek (their stage names are Dave 1 and P-Thugg) electro with a heavy emphasis on synth bass lines and whip-snapping beats.

On Saturday night, the pair set up behind two mannequin-legged keyboard stands, flanked by six vertical banks of lights. Above them, true to their hilarious, self-obsessed 1980s pastiche, hung a neon sign of a woman’s legs scrawled with “Two Step” (a lyric from their hit “Fancy Footwork”) and above those gams the word “Chromeo” in arcing pink letters. The light show was good but not great.