Anyone who's heard Bugz In The Attic DJ will know they're all about the good times.

Now, with a brand new live band and new album, the west Londoners are taking their party to the next level.

"This is the first time we've performed with a full live band," says original member Daz-I-Kue.

"Some dance acts are just stuck in the studio, but we're getting out there and incorporating as much live stuff as we possibly can. It's going to be a lot of fun."

The funky collective of DJs and producers (last count nine) is best known for its remixes and as purveyors of the broken beat sound, which blasted out of the late Nineties.

But Daz hopes the album (Back In The Doghouse, out July 17) will prove there's much more to them than that.

"We put out this album of happy, soulful music to make everybody smile and to prove we're bigger than broken beat.

"The live stuff is far away from broken beat. It's a collection of great dance songs. There's jazz, soul, disco, drum'n' bass, hip-hop and breakbeat, put together to create this unique sound.

"We didn't want to pigeonhole ourselves, but someone said, 'That sounds like Bug-funk to me' and we liked that. So it's all brought together with his Bug-funk thread."

Nestling between Parliament's P-funk grooves and Basement Jaxx's party stylings, the Bugz' live gigs are given a complete disco overhaul, thanks, in part, to three powerful vocalists.

When it came to test things out, Miami seemed the obvious place to go. "It was so cool," laughs Daz. "There was a swimming pool at the gig and everything. I dressed up in these tennis whites, with a big afro and headband."

Hanging in Miami was the stuff of dreams when the Bugz first got together in 1996 in an attic studio in Richmond. The original six-piece each brought different sounds, skills and styles to the table and the result was something new and exciting.

The fledgling broken beat scene was the perfect outlet.

Word spread and remixes for the likes of Macy Gray, Zero 7, Amp Fiddler, Jazzanova and Nitin Sawhney followed, as did the launch of Shoreditch club night Co-Op. The crew expanded and formed their own label, Bitasweet Records, and a host of side projects filled their diaries - hence the ten-year wait for their first studio album.

"We thought it was about time," says Daz. "That doesn't mean the broken beat scene is dead to us - the scene is still there, the attitude is still there but with the live stuff, we're exploring new territories."

Starts 7.30pm, tickets £10. Call 01273 647100.