Career
Born and raised around California, including Willits and San Diego, Doerck began his music career listening to and playing 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, Medical Corps Schmidt and Drew Danial (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"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). In 2002, Doerck released a Civil Defense-R entirely in MP3 format, entitled Liberal Studies-MP3CD-R. This project included hundreds of MP3s produced throughout his musical history, dating back to his first band, The Robotic.
In 2004, Doerck remixed "Who Is lieutenant" from Björk"s Medúlla album.