About

Derehctub is the word used for the current live and recorded music projects produced by myself, Jaxson Payne. It has no meaning and it is not a name and the fact that it reads butchered backwards has no relevance; it is just a word I like the sound of. And there is no correct way to say it, in fact I like all the different pronunciations I've heard.

The project started in 2002 when I upgraded from an 8 track recorder to a PC. The music I was producing was so different to what I had been doing before, it seemed appropriate to have a whole new artist's name to go with. For the first two years of using the PC for my entire musical output, I was inspired and got a lot from testing out new methods, intricately programming and learning more about production.

My music was (and still is) fairly dance floor orientated. But after a while I started to miss playing live, being spontaneous, improvising. I've been playing drums for most of my life, and playing live since I was ten or eleven. I wanted a way of bringing the drum kit back into the equation without compromising the music. So I came about the idea of using a midi drum kit in the same way as I was using my keyboard. I ended up getting a Yamaha because it had the most midi triggers, and it was older and therefore cheaper than the others.

I started making versions of my tracks (and covers of other tracks that I thought might work well for one reason or another) to be converted into kits. I didn't want to have any backing tracks, using loops on various pads is as far as I will go. It wouldn't feel right to just play along to something. And I wouldn't have the same control and freedom to improvise. As I have it set up now, every sound you hear is triggered by my drum sticks hitting the pads.

I've played many gigs this way now, and I feel it has been a successful solution (other than a few technical problems that can occur: I.e. bad monitoring). I intend to play more, to keep experimenting, exploring, and hopefully releasing music until it all evolves into some newer and better idea.