Chapter 2 - First contact

I was watching my brothers playing for some months

Paying attention to every move they made, and I was eager to implement

After the rejects that my brothers were giving me, I only had one option to get rid of this thorn

stuck that I had to discover ...

I had to do it hidden from them because they said " I was very small"

(how much anger to listen this)

But for me it was impossible to find the right moment, because the room was always busy.

When there was no one, was the other. And so were going weeks, until ... the summer came!!

Occasionally they were going to the beach, I quietly asked:

When shall you return?

I need to know it because of mum or dad will ask me

(I asked this because I just wanted to know the time they will be away from home to know if I

had the enough time to play for the first time)

Most days they told me : we will be back in 2 hours more or less

Few time for me, I didn't want they will know that I had been playing with their equipment.

And the heating of the equipment for having been used will betray me ... Was one of those

summer magical days when they told me to my usual question:

Today we will come back around 7 p.m ... I couldn't believe it, finally I had reached the day I

was waiting for! They went out ... and I waited for some minutes to verify that they would not

return, when I saw happened about 20-30 minutes I finally reach my moment ... I came insides

the room and I tried to remember all the steps that I had seen on them. The first thing I did

was pick up a book and write how they left the equipment before leaving. I wrote it!

Volume, pitch, and how the needles were placed, etc .... I didn't let a single detail! There I

was ...

in front of two brand dishes Akiyama, and an Acoustic Control table

I remember that the mixer had buttons that were the effects of bomb, gun, siren, plane, etc

(At that time maybe would be the coolest, don't forget that we are talking about '94)

I had no idea the way to connect that, and I thought logically: Find everything where says "on / off".

So I was turning on the dishes, table, amplifier, etc ...

I had everything connected and prepared to take a vinyl.

I'll always remember, was one of "Pink Records" called "Potenzia."

I put a record on the turntable on the left, put the needle,

and turned up the channel (only had two)

 I was totally amazed and I was amazed for a time, looking like that needle makes sound music when it make contact with the vinyl, I wondered:

How could be???

Then I looked for more albums. I was looking for some familiar cover, and

I put the second vynil on the right tray. Also remember, was called "enchandement".

There i was with the two tracks playing simultaneously and wondering:

Now what I have to do??

why do they put on only a headset? why do they move the vinyl?

All were questions for me, I got a state of joy and disappointment also. Because I didn't know

what to do or sense to this.

I spent several minutes playing with the same disks, turning up and down the volume,

analyzing everything, and looking for a logic,

What amused me was to press all the effects buttons at the same time like the sound of the

music. Now press the siren, now the shooting,

( the one which I liked for a lot was the missile sound, toward the noise since it was launched until exploited, everything in a quality of 8 bits).

I spent some time until I get tired. I turned off the dishes and I left everything as I wrote out in

my book, before my brothers had gone. But this time I had a thousand questions in my head,

and I wanted to see them playing to answer those questions, and learn more.

This time I was going to see at my brothers with a different eyes.

I request them for some clubs tapes, and asking them things like: How do you call this music? "Makina" *

They answered. Ok,

now I knew the name of this music that was starting to leave an indelible mark on my

My curiosity was growing by minutes, and although my first contact was not as expected, was

a huge attraction to get a correct way to do it, and I wanted to try. I started to find out more

information about this that was so new for me, Makina!

I went to some shops where you could find Flyers from most popular clubs. I get in and ask:

Can I can take some flyers? are for my brothers!

I told this to the employees to catch some flyers. I was very embarrassed and I knew that to go

at those clubs "I was too small." I was sure, I wanted to know everything about playing music

that I had discovered. Many people in those days called this kind of music "Bakalao"

Weeks go by and there was no way to get a moment to try it again. So I started to create my

own mega mixes with tapes that I had from differents nightclubs.

The mega-mixes have consisted of a blank tape into the recording deck, and to record snippets

from songs that I liked, so like this way I created what for me were my first mixes.

I think that more than a DJ on those times has made these "megamixes". It was difficult to do

it, but it was the only way to feel me a little bit closer to being a DJ.

*Makina it's a old popular music from Spain. (same as UK Hardcore or Happy Hardcore)

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Chapter 1.The beginning

CHAPTER 1:

The beginning

Year 1993, on a Sant Boi de Llobregat’s flat

There was a humble family formed for 5 members, a parents and 3 brothers

One of those was me

Daniel López Munuera, a normal boy, that studied on a public school named Barrufet

(I remember that my mother insisted a lot to enroll me on this school because she wanted me to learn very well catalán) 

With 12 years, I played with my toys Gijoe, I had a lot!!

On this time was on heyday a famous tv cartoon series “Oliver and Benji”. I tried to do the same scense with my toys using paper balls as football balls.

While I hallucinate recreating impossible stunts with my toys.

Listening a music on background through my brothers room that rumbled in my head and could not understand, to cross the line from my brother's room meant to me "forbidden site", my big brother named Jero, imposed an enormous respect for me, and was a serious young man with character and distant

I still remember as pounding the door of his room, and also remember more than Once a neighbor going to complain about the high volume and inconvenience caused to them that "Boom Boom" (as he cataloged them) fortunately was a small apartment block, with few neighbors, and had good relationship with them

At that time could not understand how they like that music that was so annoying to me

Also my middle brother called Xavi played sometimes when Jero was not at home

Xavi worked in a bar and was more sociable, and he was the one who shared a room with me

I still have in mind, like it was yesterday, the first day that Xavi said:

Do you want to watch me to play?

I answered him a timid: OK

I did not like that music that were disturbing me every day, but I felt very curious to see what was what made ​​my brothers there.

The room was like a normal room, and was decorated with two huge Scorpia posters pasted on the wall, a significant flyer, and a couple of photos with friends at a party

My brothers were regulars at the famous Scorpia club from first day and they were big fans from Frank Trax, the DJ resident from this club. In the room could also see two JB boxes where kept the records. And of course, the dishes, mixer and phase potency

Xavi turned on the equipment, he took a look to his CDs and started to play, I was lying on the bed and I was not paying attention while I played with my toys
Sometimes he asked me:

What do you think?

I answered him: Niiiiceee!!

But really I had no idea that Xavi was doing with so many buttons, a headphones just in one ear, and moving his hands moving the record 

My visits to this magical and mysterious room , starts to get usual, and my playground was changed from my room to Jero's room

Day by day that "boom boom" bothered me less, and sometimes I tried to take a look for a few minutes to view try to understand what was the purpose of "that game."

The months passed, I hung out with my best friend Marko class

I shared with him all hours of the day, and we were the terror of the school, always plotting mischief, and ways to get nervous all the classmates, the truth is that we were not bad guys, but quite naughty

I explain him what my brothers were doing in that room, and I invited him to my house to see my brother Xavi playing

Both stayed silent looking everything Xavi were doing. Gradually my curiosity grew up, and go to that room was wining more minutes in my head instead to play with my Gijoes that were gradually being stored in a huge box

After many visits, that music does not bother me at all

And I start to ask Jero if I could see him playing too, to guess if it was a different the way to play.  Jero let me see him less than Xavi because he felt me as a child, and he preferred to be alone. But the few times that I can saw him I saw almost the same movements, and did not feel if a mix was right or wrong, so I saw the same with both ... with the passage of the days my desire grows up to do the same as them

But first I had to ask Jero, which gave me fear, but it was his room

Back then, whenever I was alone with him wanted to ask if I would try, but I never dared

I decide to ask Xavi and his answer was

You are very young yet, and you might break something, but ask Jero

Days go through and I was angry with his answer, because he told me "you are very small for that game"! Finally I found the value to speak with Jero, very timidly: Can I try one day? Teach me to play?

His answer was short and sharp; No Danny, you're too small for this

I, enraged with this answer, like a real child as I was, I went to look for my mother crying and I told her that my brothers did not want to teach me and that I hated them! My mother called them to ask the reason for his refusal to teach me to play ...

I suppose that my brothers trying to remove the affair and taking time  said: Mum, he is very small and could break something, but we will let him do it on a future, come oooonnnn!

That served to calm my tears, but not to make me forget what I had made ​​up his mind ... It took weeks and weeks and I kept asking them: When can I play? When you teach me?

And I always get the same answer:

it have to spend more time Dany!!! Don’t be pushy!!!

My curiosity grew up, and with my friend Marko commented every day the desire I had to try it. Every time that I went to see them play, I tried to watch every step they did, all his movements, all that I had inside of my head was to learn

I was tired of the thousands rejected that I had from my brothers. Finally I decided to get a goal to reach: discover the maximum to take do it myself alone hiding from them
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Intro

Dear Readers,

First of all, I would like to thank you to pay attention to this first project that I’m beginning today as a book format

Mum, I want to be a DJ!!! Maybe seems to you a book focused on music only, but this is not the concept

What I want to explain on this funny history is:

How much hard is to get your dreams come true, despite the fact that all the others try to make you believe ideas of how impossible it is, that you should concentrate on something else, and that reaching your goal is only for a few chosen

And why not can you be the  one??

Who prevents you?

Right … only you can get it or prevents  you  to reach that goal longed in your life

On this book you will discover  anecdotes, euphoria  days, sadness moments, with impotence,  even dramatic situations.

All the details related are true and were lived by myself during my long experience on music world, as a DJ and producer

The intention of this book It’s not just to amuse you with a common interest like the Deejay world, I also want to raise awareness how difficult it can be for a normal kid, with an humble family, to get his dream possible, and even more complicated ... to keep it alive

On “Mum, I want to be a DJ!!!” also you will see everything has changed over the years, how technologies have changed and ways of working, in an era where there was no internet, not even able to mix with Cd, until today with all the weapons and technology promotion at your fingertips

I hope this book is to your liking, entertain you, and you raise awareness of the famous proverb that says "If you want, you can!

Kind regards my friends

Dany BPM
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