Born and raised around
California, including
Willits and
San Diego, Doerck began his music career listening to and playing bass guitar
black metal and
punk, including a Metallica cover band. In San Diego, he had a job coloring
New Kids on the Block comic books using computers. In 1997, he helped form the group
Disc with Kid606, M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel (of
Matmos). An interest in
electronic music drove Doerck to begin work with record label Vinyl Communications in 1992, adding more electronic flavor to what was otherwise a punk record label. Doerck settled in the
San Francisco Bay Area in 1994, where he participated in the
drum & bass scene. There he toured with
A Minor Forest, and later collaborated with
Kid606, publishing a number of records on the label
Tigerbeat6. Doerck also played with members of
Crash Worship. Doerck's early electronic music influences included
Luke Vibert's work released under the alias
Plug, which Doerck admits he tried to imitate (with little success). == 2000s ==