by Sean CooperBoymerang is the drumnbass aegis of London-based producer Graham Sutton, better known as one-half of celebrated early-90s industrial pop group Bark Psychosis. Covering similar territory as dark ambient/electronic dance groups such as Coil and Front 242, Bark Psychosis released only one album and a pair of singles for Virgin before splitting in 1994, due to intense internal conflict. Sutton as Bark Psychosis played at the electronic Music Festival in Russia, alongside Seefeel, Autechre, Ultramarine and Aphex Twin, a lineup that reflected what for Sutton had by then become his primary musical interest; experimental dance music. He and Daniel Gish then performed an electronic set under the Bark Psychosis name at the UKs Phoenix Festival. Sutton immersed himself in the drumnbass scene, learning the ropes from artists such as Ed Rush, Trace, Fabio, Luke Vibert, Goldie, and Doc Scott before releasing a self-titled EP on 4AD defect Tony Morleys experimental Leaf label. Sutton created two of the three songs (The Don and Rules) with Gish; the 12 also included Suttons first solo piece as Boymerang, (Theme From) Boymerang. A mixture of tight jungle programming and frantic, armchair-oriented experimentation, the single did loads for Suttons rep (to say nothing of Leafs). Following an additional EP for Leaf and a remix of 2Players Extreme Possibilities for Ninja Tune (next to Vibert in his Wagon Christ guise), Sutton contributed material to a pair of compilations on Jon Tyes Lo Recordings and inked a non-exlusive contract with EMI. Remixes for Collapsed Lung and Sufi followed, as well as an EP for Grooveriders Prototype label and a track on the Volume compilation, Breakbeat Science. His debut full-length Balance of the Force appeared on Regal/EMI in May 1997.