Between 2003 and 2006 Doerck was a member of the defunct laptop group Sagan, alongside Blevin Blectum, Wobbly, and video artist Ryan Junell.

Born and raised around California, including Willits and San Diego, Doerck began his music career listening to and playing[vague] bass guitar black metal and punk, including a Metallica cover band.

[3] Doerck settled in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1994, where he participated in the drum & bass scene.

During the same year, his album Gearhound won an Honorable Mention for Digital Musics in the Prix Ars Electronica.

In 2001, Doerck released an MP3 compilation of Lesser material on CD entitled LS-MP3CD-R that included hundreds of files and over 12 hours of audio.