Boymerang

Boymerang is the drum'n'bass aegis of London-based producer Graham Sutton, better known as one-half of celebrated early-'90s industrial pop group <a href="spotify:artist:0QwH5InvCwfL4UbYkjP9pi">Bark Psychosis</a>. Covering similar territory as dark ambient/electronic dance groups such as <a href="spotify:artist:37KB5e6cGsN1AQAB9Omm1U">Coil</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:2tyMOS8xKREgpEwHnLc6EX">Front 242</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0QwH5InvCwfL4UbYkjP9pi">Bark Psychosis</a> released only one album and a pair of singles for Virgin before splitting in 1994, due to intense internal conflict. Sutton as <a href="spotify:artist:0QwH5InvCwfL4UbYkjP9pi">Bark Psychosis</a> played at the electronic Music Festival in Russia, alongside <a href="spotify:artist:0jyH4jtanxaysaxwDVhR6f">Seefeel</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6WH1V41LwGDGmlPUhSZLHO">Autechre</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7dWvlbbAJ7penJUnxOtUJF">Ultramarine</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:6kBDZFXuLrZgHnvmPu9NsG">Aphex Twin</a>, 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 <a href="spotify:artist:0QwH5InvCwfL4UbYkjP9pi">Bark Psychosis</a> name at the UK's Phoenix Festival. Sutton immersed himself in the drum'n'bass scene, learning the ropes from artists such as <a href="spotify:artist:6gj4aZLxVGCdFPMThH6q6q">Ed Rush</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1ykeiSYDFg4zCUeQRNDSXJ">Trace</a>, Fabio, <a href="spotify:artist:0HfxCluo7N2dhr4oRM0wBv">Luke Vibert</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2SYqJ3uDLLXZNyZdLKBy4M">Goldie</a>, and Doc Scott before releasing a self-titled EP on 4AD defect Tony Morley's experimental Leaf label. Sutton created two of the three songs ("The Don" and "Rules") with Gish; the 12" also included Sutton's first solo piece as Boymerang, "(Theme From) Boymerang." A mixture of tight jungle programming and frantic, armchair-oriented experimentation, the single did loads for Sutton's rep (to say nothing of Leaf's). Following an additional EP for Leaf and a remix of <a href="spotify:artist:39mR6rjFthAwyHDG8MyZYp">2Player</a>'s "Extreme Possibilities" for Ninja Tune (next to <a href="spotify:artist:0HfxCluo7N2dhr4oRM0wBv">Vibert</a> in his <a href="spotify:artist:3INW2gvv9ZcgPGL0oqkOXy">Wagon Christ</a> guise), Sutton contributed material to a pair of compilations on Jon Tye's Lo Recordings and inked a non-exlusive contract with EMI. Remixes for <a href="spotify:artist:6sizjS3o8Ph8LoA8WzpXGY">Collapsed Lung</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:5TjuoaxcR4TzErpx15AJur">Sufi</a> followed, as well as an EP for <a href="spotify:artist:65g8RO3JqCUTigI7YR3dAw">Grooverider's</a> 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. ~ Sean Cooper, Rovi