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June 26 2009
My relationship with dance music has always been one of distant fascination. When I was in my mid to late teens the attitude in my school was always you either lived "chav" music which was a diet of mainstream RnB, rap and happy hardcore, or you liked "skater" music which consisted of a diet of nu metal, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, bits of punk, and lots of very bland indie music. I somewhat fell beyond the "skater" end of the spectrum and I only really started to appreciated good DJing when I moved to Europe and spent lots of time in cooler bars than the ones near my university. This book is almost a primer for the uninitiated as it even has a glossary of different sub-genres of dance music in the back.
But this is about B.P.M. and not my own wanderings through music.
The art, as with everything I've seen by Paul Sizer, is fantastic. Wonderfully realised and drawn with a graphic designers eye for detail. At the start of the book some of the characters a slightly inconsistent, but this is a small detail amidst a sea of beautifully rendered backgrounds which evoke the locations of the book in way that makes New York familiar to someone who's not really been there except vicariously. The colours are bold and bright, they are really helped by Paul Sizer's exceptional eye for detail and the fantastic quality of the paper used to print the book.
The liner notes at the back of the book indicate that the background from one page of panels came from hanging out of a taxi in Times Square with a camera.
There is a story, and it's a good one, it's the story of Roxy who's a DJ discovering how to be a better DJ while balancing real life problems like: finding gigs to DJ at so she can pay the rent and keeping her relationship with her girlfriend going. It's all slice of life, so don't except any fights, chases or action in this book.
Each of the characters apart from being immaculately designed are proper cartoons. What I mean is that the characters are broad brush strokes of the different kinds of DJs you find in the world. There's the burned out superstar, the up and coming superstar, the minimalist cool guy, and the rookie who we are following. And while these characters are stereotypes of different DJs they are also realised characters that can be identified with.
As far as extras in graphic novels go, well previously I expected maybe a few drawings in the back of a graphic novel, maybe the covers if it was originally published in single issues, or maybe an introduction written by someone vaguely involved with the book or its subject matter. Well B.P.M has that and oodles of other little delights packed into the book.
The book also looks fantastic as an object.
I don't think I've been psyched about a book for quite a while. This has my highest recommendation.
But this is about B.P.M. and not my own wanderings through music.
The art, as with everything I've seen by Paul Sizer, is fantastic. Wonderfully realised and drawn with a graphic designers eye for detail. At the start of the book some of the characters a slightly inconsistent, but this is a small detail amidst a sea of beautifully rendered backgrounds which evoke the locations of the book in way that makes New York familiar to someone who's not really been there except vicariously. The colours are bold and bright, they are really helped by Paul Sizer's exceptional eye for detail and the fantastic quality of the paper used to print the book.
The liner notes at the back of the book indicate that the background from one page of panels came from hanging out of a taxi in Times Square with a camera.
There is a story, and it's a good one, it's the story of Roxy who's a DJ discovering how to be a better DJ while balancing real life problems like: finding gigs to DJ at so she can pay the rent and keeping her relationship with her girlfriend going. It's all slice of life, so don't except any fights, chases or action in this book.
Each of the characters apart from being immaculately designed are proper cartoons. What I mean is that the characters are broad brush strokes of the different kinds of DJs you find in the world. There's the burned out superstar, the up and coming superstar, the minimalist cool guy, and the rookie who we are following. And while these characters are stereotypes of different DJs they are also realised characters that can be identified with.
As far as extras in graphic novels go, well previously I expected maybe a few drawings in the back of a graphic novel, maybe the covers if it was originally published in single issues, or maybe an introduction written by someone vaguely involved with the book or its subject matter. Well B.P.M has that and oodles of other little delights packed into the book.
The book also looks fantastic as an object.
I don't think I've been psyched about a book for quite a while. This has my highest recommendation.
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