Jeremy Greenspan, the 23-year-old singing half of Canadian duo Junior Boys, talks about the process of making music similar to how a trade craftsman talks shop.

“Making electronic music is often sitting in a room by yourself – it’s not like a normal band,” he said in a telephone interview Saturday. “It’s hours and hours of painstaking work.”

The effort certainly shows in the band’s studio recordings. They are clean, calculated products that manage to avoid being inaccessible and are in fact very danceable – a problem that keeps many musicians locked in the stratifications of the electronic music community and not in the ears of the masses.

“I see us as a pop band. When I see us in the dance section I always hate it,” Greenspan said. “We make pop music informed by dance music. Pop music is so flexible.”

Greenspan’s process of creating electronic music involves recording hundreds of loops and ideas, a process that takes as long as, if not longer than, recording the music itself.

Junior Boys’ music is typically consistent with the dance music made 20 years ago: faster than today’s downtempo music and slower than the electro-pop that has become popular within the past two years.

“Sometimes you go to dance clubs and the music is screaming at you,” Greenspan said. “Dance music for me was more soulful, more engaging.”

All this being said about electronically producing music, it may seem that there is little room for art in the traditional sense. Greenspan said the studio recordings and the live experience of seeing the band is appropriately different.

“There are two ways you can go doing electronic music. You can press play on a DVD and jump around and have lasers – whatever it is that you do when you do that – or you can really try and play everything,” he said.

In the studio, Greenspan and other half Matt Didemus record separately, sometimes in separate countries – Greenspan in Canada, Didemus in Germany – so Greenspan does not feel they act as a band when recording.

“It’s like translating something,” he said. “It’s louder and there is a band for live shows [not] there during recording.”

When asked about Junior Boys’ most popular song, “In the Morning,” which was featured in the TV show “So You Think You Can Dance,” Greenspan said that the band recorded the track in less than two days. However, making creative, smooth dance music takes longer, he said.

“The last track on the [new] album, ‘What It’s For,’ has been in the works since the first album,” he said. That’s around six years after the recording sessions of “Last Exit,” the band’s first release.

Tonight’s show at the 40 Watt is part of the band’s Halloween tour. Attendees who show up in costume can participate in a costume contest for prizes.