D'Cuckoo was a women's multimedia ensemble of electronic percussion music formed in mid-1980s by Tina Blaine ("Bean"), an ethnomusicologist and African drum expert, and Candice Pacheco, electronic musician and acoustic marimba player. It also included Tina Phelps, a trained Japanese ritual Taiko drummer, Jennifer Hruska, and Patti Clemens, former The Second City comedy trooper. Over time the size of the band ranged from 3 to 10 members including drummer Janelle Burdell (Planet Drum, Tupac) . Virtual reality expert Linda Jacobson described them as "neo-classical, post-industrial techno-tribal world funk ensemble".