Glitter Guerrilla works overtime to get bodies on the dance floor. While you’re curled up in bed having work nightmares, members of the Northampton hip-hop collective are pulling all-nighters crafting bootylicious jams.

The Northampton hip-hop outfit—rapper/singer Amy White, crooner/shouter Gabe Sullivan, beats and rhymes guru Evan Brown, and Ryan Crowley on 4- and 6-string guitars—hopes to keep things loose at the Oct. 16 dirtyPOPtober, an Elevens show featuring GG along with Young Wee-Wee, Solo Sexx, and others.

Glitter Guerrilla rose from the ashes of Brown and Sullivan’s hip-hop dance band Don’t. The longtime friends missed collaborating in the wake of that group’s demise, so they decided to get together on the weekends to make some beats and do some home recording.

White soon joined in, freestyling over the beats, and Brown says that they quickly gelled. They recruited Crowley, along with the likes of Luke Degnan, Eric Lee, and Zazz—any friend or musician “willing to drop a vocal or pick up an instrument”—to flesh things out.

Brown says the group made a conscientious decision to hone and record its songs before finally unleashing the beast on New Year’s Eve 2009. “We recorded every other weekend for almost a year before we really showed anybody what we’d been up to.”

To create new Guerrilla material, Brown generally works out the framework for a beat—bass and drums—on his “totally crappy computer.” White works out lyrics while Sullivan freestyles. The duality of the vocalists’ approaches brings about a unique result.

“When you’ve got a rapper that meticulously crafts her lyrics and a singer that is almost entirely off the cuff, sometimes the lyrical message can be a little less than unified,” Brown explains. “But we all like what we’re doing, and we try to keep it that way.”

Crowley adds much of the “live” instrumentation to the proceedings. “Ryan is really the only one that knows how to play instruments at all well, so he’s our go-to guy there, as well as answer-man for keys, notes, scales,” says Brown. “At some point after we’ve roughed out the vocals, we usually come up with a chorus, either by cobbling together melodic parts we’ve already got from what we recorded, or come up with something, somehow.”

This is about where the late nights come in.

“After that, I usually obsess over the song until 5 or 6 a.m.,” Brown says. “Moving all the components around and chopping them up, while everyone else leans over my shoulder and tries to tell me what to do. Somehow, this is a mostly effective means of collaboration for us, and we end up with songs.”

While the band still spends a good deal of time holed up in the studio, it has made it onstage for a handful of gigs in the year and half since a celebratory first show, including opening for Nerdcore pioneer MC Frontalot. The members say they’d love to play more.

“Lately, we’ve been focusing on trying to get out there,” says Brown. “We’ve been trying to make an impression on people, team up with other acts and, yeah, share our songs.

“We make music people can move to, and it would be our dream if they all did.”

Glitter Guerrilla play dirtyPOPtober Oct. 16 at the Elevens in Northampton. For songs, shows, and more information, visit www.glitterguerrilla.com.