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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