If you're feeling funky and maybe a bit frisky, jam band Particle will seek to provide the perfect outlet for all that pent-up aggression at Crowbar, 420 E. College Ave., Tuesday night with its self-described style of, get this, "space porn."

"I'm totally psyched to come there. I love Penn State," said Particle bassist Eric Gould, who would visit friends and attend shows in State College when he was an undergraduate at Ithaca College.

So what exactly is this devil's music that Particle will be unleashing on our virgin ears?

Going back to the early days, the band came up with the suggestive tag to describe its fusion of spacey electronic ambience and '70s porn funk.

Nowadays, Gould says a truer description of the sound would be as "funktronic rock."

"It's music that has an electronic edge, a funk edge and we definitely bring the rock," he said.

Although it falls in the category of electronic music created by live instrumentation, along with bands such as the New Deal and Sound Tribe Sector 9, Gould says that Particle's sound is nonetheless quite different from that of its contemporaries.

As an example, he describes the title track of Particle's forthcoming album, Launchpad.

The song begins as an electronic groove, and by the end has transformed into a raging rock solo.

On paper, this might not sound very convincing, but Gould maintains that when one compares live performances one can see the difference.

Anxious to bring that live feel to a disc, Particle is finally poised to release an album of material early next year, the aforementioned Launchpad. Collaborating with producer Tom Rothrock, who has worked with bands such as Coldplay, Badly Drawn Boy and the Beta Band.

Particle recorded the album in fragments between tour dates, and is excited about it.

"The album's in the can right now. We're really proud of it, it's bumpin,' " Gould said.

The band's relentless touring is the reason Gould said it took so long to get in the studio.

He believes the band was fortunate to generate so much excitement through word of mouth and trading of its music over the Internet through file-sharing, a practice the band supports wholeheartedly.

"I have so much respect for people who record shows," Gould said. "We packed places in Japan due simply to the taping and trading of our performances around the world."

Those performances continue to raise expectations of the band reinventing itself and still having a wild time. On Halloween the band transformed New York City's Irving Plaza into a retro dance party, complete with disco balls, bubble machines and go-go dancers.

From Jan. 6 to 10 and 10 to 14 they'll be setting sail on the maiden voyages of the Jam Cruise, the world's first and only jam band music festivals on the sea.

And perhaps most exciting of all, the band will play two late night shows on Dec. 29 and 31, at the "no curfew" Ice Palace Film Studios in Miami following Phish's nearby epic four night New Years run.

"Things are getting bigger and better," tour manager Wil Simon said.

"This is the longest tour they've ever been on."

Particle is no stranger to the late night, developing a reputation as an after-hours band that culminated in its five hour and 20 minute non-stop set at the Bonnaroo 2003 festival, which began at 4 a.m.

"It was such an incredible experience. We took the late-night and completely epitomized it that night," Gould said.

Crowbar has seen its share of lengthy jams as well, with bands such as O.A.R., Leftover Salmon and the Disco Biscuits.

"Kids love that. I think it's great," Dave Wells, director of operations for Crowbar, said.

Regardless of the 9 p.m. start time and Pennsylvania's curfew and decency laws, Particle promises to play one sexy set.

"The fact of the matter is, whatever time of day we get up there and create the art we're doing," Gould said.

"We're on cloud nine and we're gonna deliver a great show to people."