Doormouse is one of the founding fathers of breakcore. The Miami-based Milwaukee native produces twisted, breakbeat-driven dance music that makes extensive use of samples from a wide array of unexpected sources, including wrestling matches, obscure movies, and prank phone calls. He became one of the primary figures of the Midwest hardcore scene during the mid-'90s, then gradually began pushing his music into more complex and absurd directions. Doormouse founded Addict Records and sublabel Distort Records, releasing several vinyl EPs and mixtapes before making his full-length debut with The Album? in 2002. Once notorious for his drunken and violent antics, he later cleaned up and devoted more time to family life, and he largely quit music in order to open a gym in 2008. He returned to producing and performing by the end of the 2010s, and released several EPs, including 2023's Breakcore.