Derek has been making music since 1987. He started out in an all-synthesizer band in high school, then ventured into making underground dance music very soon after graduating. With a heavy focus on Techno, he created music for releases on record labels like Resource Records (San Jose, CA), Flask (a division of Silent Records, San Francisco, CA), as well as his own netlabel, Dobox Recordings. Nowadays his focus is still on Techno, but also experimenting with various esoteric electronic instruments and music software to create abstract and ambient soundscapes. Beginning with recordings used for the album 'Loose Memories' and a contribution to 'The Big California Noise Compilation', Derek is exploring the more extreme side of sound.