Disruption Theory, the debut recording by Andre LaFosse, is the sound of a musician looking for his own genre. Drawing on a background that runs the gamut from electronic programming to studio production to live instrumental performance, and musical experience that references rock, classical, jazz, world, and electronic styles, the album is a product of wide-ranging influences coming together. It's a work that blurs the distinction between "live" music and "sampled" music; not just in terms of sound itself, but in terms of how sound is used. There are elements of drum & bass all over the album; most of the songs are built around jungle-derived rhythms, and the genre's distinctively chopped-up, nonlinear logic informs the material on several levels. But Disruption Theory is also a guitar album; aside from the rhythm programming (and a Mellotron sample on the title track), all of the sounds were produced by LaFosse on electric guitar. The textures that adorn the album cover the spectrum from bare-boned traditional tones to fragmented post-ambient sonics and all points in-between. The result is music that both embraces and violates musical conventions in equal measure. Cut-and-paste digital textures and dance floor sensibilities are infiltrated by hints of song-like compositional structure, while melodic and harmonic conventions are filtered through a non-linear post-DJ mentality. Disruption Theory unfolds like a map of possible paths: filled with landmarks of familiar musical territory, but taking a course that eschews any conventional routes, to arrive at an altogether different destination. Instrumental Guitar (Electric/Rock/Progressive), total running time, 56:27 - Andre LaFosse @ iTunes!