Cyberchump is an electro-organic duo created by multi-media artist Mark G. E. http://www.joyfarm.com/ and musician Jim Skeel. The band members live in different cities and have made a point of long distance collaboration utilizing the internet . Cyberchump is played on numerous national radio programs such as Echoes

Echoes (radio program)

Echoes is a daily two-hour music radio program hosted by John Diliberto featuring a soundscape of ambient, space, electronica, and New Age music. The program features in-depth artist interviews and intimate "living room" performances. Interview subjects have included Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel,...

, Music from the Hearts of Space, Starstreams and internationally on programs such as Ultima Thule Ambient Music

Ultima Thule Ambient Music

Ultima Thule Ambient Music is a long-running, specialist ambient music radio show which has been broadcast on Australian community radio since 1989. The show has been described as one of the leading alternative music programmes on Australian radio. It is also available as a webcast and as a podcast...

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Music critic and founder of the Art of Noise, Paul Morley

Paul Morley

Paul Morley is an English journalist, who wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983, during one of its most successful periods, and has since written for a wide range of publications...

 lists Cyberchump’s Dreams Grooves as “One of 88 albums" you need to hear in his book Words and Music: the history of pop in the shape of a city

Words and Music: the history of pop in the shape of a city

Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City is a 2005 book charting the history of popular music, by the acclaimed music journalist and cultural commentator Paul Morley...

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Jason Kiel in The Shepherd Express describe the duo’s collaborative dynamic by noting that “Skeel's tendencies to jam are an intriguing counterpoint to Mark G.E.'s http://www.joyfarm.com/ methodical experimentation.”

Additional guest musicians have included John Kruth

John Kruth

John Kruth is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist best known for his highly energetic “Banshee Mandolin” style of playing. He is also proficient on guitar, banjo, harmonica and various flutes. Kruth is also a music journalist and author....

, Mike Kashou, who played bass on the first Garbage (album)

Garbage (album)

Garbage is the debut album by Scottish/American alternative rock group Garbage. It was released in the late summer and autumn of 1995 worldwide, following critical acclaim and promising chart positions for their debut single "Vow", which entered the Billboard Hot 100.Garbage eventually spent over a...

, Jason Loveall from The Danglers , Jason Todd, and a telephone call cameo from Victor DeLorenzo

Victor DeLorenzo

Victor DeLorenzo was born on October 25, 1954, and is best known as the drummer for the folk-punk band the Violent Femmes.He grew up in Racine, Wisconsin and has lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, since. He has been a drummer since the age of sixteen, but an actor since the age of five...

  of the Violent Femmes

Violent Femmes

Violent Femmes were an American alternative rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, initially active between 1980 and 1987 and again from 1988 to 2009...

. A number of their album covers have been created by international surrealist artist J. Karl Bogartte (Chicago Surrealist Group

Chicago Surrealist Group

The Chicago Surrealist Group was founded in Chicago, Illinois in July, 1966 by Franklin and Penelope Rosemont after a 1965 trip to Paris, during which they had been in contact with André Breton...

), whose work, among other places, is in the collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum

Milwaukee Art Museum

The Milwaukee Art Museum is located on Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Beginning around 1872, multiple organizations were founded in order to bring an art gallery to Milwaukee, as the city was still a growing port town with little or no facilities to hold major art exhibitions...

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Their music appears in the documentary “Maybe A Baby” by filmmaker Theresa Ala Mode.

Mark G. E.’s http://www.joyfarm.com/ film “The Unfortunate Gift” has been accepted into the Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey

Edward St. John Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his macabre illustrated books.-Early life:...

 House Archive.

Cyberchump have numerous full length releases such as Dreams Groove, Inner Grooves, Abstract Air, Scientists in the Trees, Secrets to Tell You, Sankhara, Our Wizards of Earth and Their Moment of Perfect Happiness. In addition, they have had songs on compilations released by Om Records

Om Records

Om Records is a US-based record label, established in 1995, which releases electronic music, dance music, and hip hop. The label was founded in San Francisco in 1995 by Chris Smith. Om Records releases both artist albums and various compilations. Some of the most notable compilations include Om...

, and Spiralight http://www.spiralight.com/ and Chi-Qi http://www.chi-qi.com/.

Cyberchump are regularly interviewed on the radio with numerous two and three hour specials by Mary Bartlein on WMSE

WMSE

WMSE is a non-commercial radio station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, playing a wide-ranging eclectic music format run by volunteer DJ's. The station is part of the Milwaukee School of Engineering .-Early history of MSOE stations:...

and Jim Lange’s Eclectopia which airs on West Virginia Public Radio.

Band Websites:

http://www.cyberchump.com/ cyberchump.com
1. Words and Music; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (4 Aug 2003) ISBN 0747557780

2. http://www.onmilwaukee.com/music/articles/cyberchump.html

3. http://www.maybeababy.com