Chapter 7: My first residence.

Year 1996
I remained in my purpose to dedicate myself to music, and my only income was the money that I got from tapes that I had recorded to people.
I spent months recording tapes for all the young people from my village. I was proud to walk down the street and hear my sessions in the cars that passed by people who don't even I met
Monotony and I don't were good friends. I needed to expand my horizons and move forward in my dream of becoming a professional DJ. With 15 years I frequented a disco called "MOES", on Saturday and Sunday afternoons were sessions for young people between 14 and 16 years. The disco was in front of the train station from Sant Feliu de Llobregat. At the entrance there was a locker with 3 men, and a staircase that descended directly to the discotheque.
First you could see a floor where there were a few tables and chairs to drink something quietly and from which you could view the entire dance floor and cab. Going down another floor you can find the dance floor.
I went to all sessions with my friends Marko and Kike. MOES sessions were from 6 until 10 PM, and I remember that music you could heard was a little bit commercial. I think should be pointed out one thing that musically it was fashionable: "half an hour of ballads"..
Yes… even though it may seems to you incredible, all the clubs made a stop for half an hour to play ballads, and was clearly a moment to meet girls!!! Consisted to get closer to that girl that you liked, or to that girl that you've been looking at the whole afternoon and ask her: Do you want to dance with me?
Logically, if the girl accessed.. You could consider you a lucky guy and maybe you could get something else from her! I will never forget all these moments that I shared knowing girls and dancing with them to the rhythm of: Michael Jackson "Earth song", Witney Houston, or a song that marked my life: foreigner "I want to know what love is" that years later I would do a remix (but I will explain this on next chapters)
At one of those dances was when I met my first girlfriend named Ana
She lived in Manresa, and we only could see us some weekends when I was going to see her, or when she came to MOES.
I was not a good dancer, for that reason I spent the whole sessions in some strategic point of the room where there were some group of girls and where I could see the resident Djs. One of them was called Jhonny, and during his sessions he spoke by a microphone-headset. He said funny things, and got encourage the people.
At that time, I didn't share the idea to speak by mic, because my idea was basically just to play music.
After going at so many sessions at this discotheque, some people that know me for my tapes told me:
-You should have to work here ¡!!
And there was when my light bulb turned on
- Why not?? (I told me to myself)
I decided to ask to the DJ
-Hey excuse me! What do I have to do to work here??
Jhonny answered me:
- You have to speak with Freddy, you can ask for him at the entrance door.
And that’s what I did, I asked for him at the door. Freddy was a men around 30 years more or less. He was wearing a cap and he looked like very friendly.
-Are you asking for me? He told me.
- Yes! I was wondering if you are looking for some DJ for your discotheque. (I was really nervous but I knew very well to conceal it)
-Not at this moment. But you can ask me again some time later. Thanks!” Answer me Freddy.
I suppose that he told me this trying to avoid me subtly.
But he really didn't know that this answer gave me the excuse to ask him again and again, I never gave up
Normally I asked him once monthly, and I always got the same answer. But one day the resident DJ said by mic:
-Well friends, I will be on holidays but MOES does not close!! We will see us soon!!
Before to end this new, I went to look for Freddy and told him:
- You need a DJ now, don’t you? I have heard that Jhonny will be on holidays!!
Freddy with a big small told me:
- I have a substitute for him!
I followed insisting
- But why don’t you give me an opportunity to show you how can I do it?
-I am just requesting you for 30 minutes!! Just 30 minutes!! Come on!! Lot of people know me and they could come here and this will be positive for your cash!! Don’t you think?
Freddy, tired to hear me (I suppose) told me:
- Ok, you win! Come here on next Saturday and you will have your first prove.
- Do I have to bring with me my vinyls?
- No! You don’t! You can catch one from some that we have here.
When I heard his words, I could not stay for more time at the discotheque and I went back home so fast to start to play ¡!
During that week I was playing more hours than ever before. I only stopped for something to eat, always forced by my mother
I was really happy and could not stop thinking about this moment. I imagined myself on stage, and I was anxious to show everybody the talent I had inside of me.
Arrived the expected day ... Saturday afternoon!!
I went alone, because my friends and my girlfriend could not come with me, but it was not a problem for me, because it was not the first time that I went alone to somewhere.
I was near the stage, sitting on a chair, waiting to be called
Minutes go by, and hours were eternals for me
It was 8.30 PM more or less, and suddenly DJ called me and made me a sign with his hand, trying to let me know that I had to go to stage
I thought that he was going to tell me the hour when I was going to start, or just to talk with me and meet me, but my surprise was that he told me:
- Are you the guy that has a prove today? Ok so … all yours, you can start!
On that moment I were aghast, because I did not waited for an answer like that. And neither to play in front of people!
I was full of faith in myself, I was succeeding with my tapes from months ago and all the people People congratulate me on the street and told me that I was very good and with a lot of talent. My pride was high, so nothing could go wrong
I start to check over the DJ’s vinyls and I get surprised when I saw the sound table:
This turntable was different like mines!! Logically were a Técnics MK 1200, (a brand that I ignored) I was trying to decode all these colors from that turntable that I had never seen before.
Could you explain me the functioning of these buttons? I asked
These are the High tones, Bass tones, Midtones, here is the pre listening, and the monitors volume
I was totally paralyzed, all the words that he was telling me were new for my ears!! Like a new language for me !!
High tones? Bass tones? Midtones? what is that? I was wondering to myself
I thought to myself
It doesn’t matter!! Just do a great mix, you have to leave everybody awestruck
I Looked at the public, I picked up the stylus, and in that moment I had my second surprise:
My hand was shaking like never before in my life!
I was unable to keep the stylus in my hands, and I couldn't put the stylus in the main point from vinyl
Yes, my friends, yes.... I was completely stuck because of my nerves
I couldn't take me off that feeling that was blocking me!!!
So I gather all my forces to put the stylus on the right site from vinyl and turn back this to arrive at the beginning from the song, but suddenly I felt that touch from these turntables were very differents at my Akiyama. Were stronger than mine.
I kept pushing off the disks by the side in order to be able to balance the mixture in time.
When DJ saw told me:
- Don’t push it by the side from turntable, you have push the vinyl directly.
This was something new for me, and I wanted to follow his advice.
When I thought that all was under control, I turned up the volume from turntable but the wolume was higher than I was listening to.
The DJ, that was alarmed came back to me to turn down the volume, while he told me:
Push the vinyl !! you will lose the track
In my desire to reach the balance from my mix, and with the shame from my trouble with the volume that I had done, I started to push the disk and inevitably my hand brushed the power button from turntable, The result??:
I turned it off ¡!!
My shame and my impotence were growing by seconds, and at that moment I only could thought: But how can be possible? I do it perfect at home
As I got the same result with the second mix like I had with first one, the resident DJ came to me and told me:
-well, that’s enough!!
I got out of stage, completely humiliated and disappointed with myself
It was a very hard kick to my pride, my moral that until then was very high, and fell completely into a tailspin.
First thing that I thought was:
Wich explination can I give to the big boss?? After so many months requesting for this opportunity … and I messed up !!
Slowly, I began to walk up the stairs toward Freddy was…every step I gave was more humiliating for me, and I still wondered why I had this disgusting moment.
When I met with Freddy, with weepy and embarrassed I told him:
Hello…I have to apologize me with you, I did it very badly. I suppose that I got nervous, because I can do it much better. Was my first time playing with people on the dance floor.
I remember that was very hard for me give this excuse at him ... even that I couldn't look at his eyes while I were talking with him
Freddy, told me with a smile on his face, his smile made me be calm.
- Don’t worry man!! I made you this little prove to check over your reaction on stage without being planned !!
- Come back tomorrow, I will make you a prove again to hear you better, and I will teach you how to work with this equipment.
I felt a Huge sigh of relief when I heard about another opportunity to show again my talent. Totally different from my first test
On next day, I took my vinyls inside that JB box from my brothers. I arrived to the club and Freddy explained to me the operation from that equipment. I was playing for a while on his presence.
And there was when he told me:
- Yesss!! Now much better!! You're very good !!
- If you want, you can start as a resident DJ on next week!!
All my anxieties, my complex, evaporated instantly, and a huge joy grabbed me through my body.
I was going to be a residen DJ from a club!!!
I was doing a step further, to reach my goal!
I remember, I told all my friends, well-known and family
They were excited, but in many of them I saw a smile like meaning
( Well... he has been lucky, but things will not go farther)
I called at this girl that I named “girlfriend?” to explain to her my great news that made me so happy, and I told her how excited I was and what it meant for me.
And her answer was:
Sigh! Urk!! ... And now when we will be together? Because if you will be working on all Saturdays and Sundays, we don't have time for us !!
I answered her:
- Well... I don’t know. We can look for other days, but this is my dream and I’m not willing to let it go this opportunity
She was very upset and angry and told me:
- Really!!!!???? Do you preffer to be playing than to be with me??
I answered her with a short and sharp:
- YES!
Before to hear my words, and the security that was transmitted, she answered me:
- OK, if you preffer this it will be better to break up our relationship
The truth is that I don't opposed no resistance to that decision, and there was when I began to understand what is meant the selfishness word in a relationship.
I also began to be aware that It wouldn't be an easy way, and maybe I should have to leave away some important things in my life.
But I remained convinced which was my higher goal in my life, to be a DJ, I couldn't miss this opportunity that was given to me, under any pretext.

Chapter 6: Mum i want to be a Dj

I am about to deal with you this point of infringement that made the difference in my life, which marked an after and before in my life. A normal day for me in Sant Feliu was a fairly normal a monotonous life. On morning I went to the electronics classes, and on the evenings I spent my time with my friend Kike playing the maximum hours as possible at home.

What I was studying didn't motivate me at all, and I only thought about to get home for more practice. Being in other places stole me many hours of practice. (Actually I think that the only thing that I liked to go to the institute, was that I could get free tapes to then sell them ... LOL )

I didn't feel me comfortable or identified with the people from my neighborhood that surrounded me. I always been a very independent kid. I'm talking about personality to choose my own  clothes style. In those moments was when "El pelao" fashion style exploded here. It was brand boom like: Lonsdale, Scottish Clan, Fred Perry, Adidas, without ignoring the mythical Alpha jacket!

In my village almost all kids were dressed as well. Clothes are not a meaning of personality, but some people associate this with fascism. (A point of view that I never shared) I wore wide clothes. And this created a bad image for "pelaos" which surrounded me, because for them I was a weird guy that didn't used to meet with them as a herd that walketh without any direction.

One thing that made me got angry, was to see the interest from people when they knew that I was Dj.

Could have been like a normal class day, but it was not at all. That day marked a before and an after in my way of seeing things and would be decisive for the way that I really wanted to choose.

It was the last class of the day. It was the kind of workshop and our teacher ordered us to all the students to do an electrical panel that consisted of a wooden board in that we had to do a circuit with cables, a bulb, and at the end of the table we had to turn it on. However many times that he repeated me the process I couldn't understand it or do it.

Annoyed me much, and I felt a complete useless while listening my colleagues to say: "I have already finished! I'm done!!" All my partners … except me,  I never even had begun. My impotence was growing by seconds and I didn't even know where to start to work.

At the end of the class, teacher told me not to worry about it, that was not the only who had not managed to conclude this exercise. While I walked toward home. I wondered to myself: "Dany, do you want this? Does this motivate you? You want this for your life really??" My concern was so hard that I just wanted to give it up, and then I thought: "I don't want to be this, I want to be a Dj! Now when I get home I will tell them that I'm going to leave the Institute."

While I repeat this to myself again and again, I also became aware of the situation that I was going to live at home at the moment to give to my family this news. I got home and my parents and brothers were sitting on the table. While we were eating I was looking for the opportune moment to explain them my intentions
In the midst of a silence I told them : "I have something to say " (everyone in silence looked at me expectantly to hear the folly that I was going to pronounce..)

And this was when I said: "I want to leave the institute, I am not happy with what I'm doing." They were all alarmed, my brothers start to joke with phrases like: "Good Another one more to ample the group!" since they had not been good students either.

My father, who was very seriously, asked me: "And what do you think to do? Because if leave your studies you'll have to work, or to look up something to do." Then I said the phrase that would change even more the whole course of this conversation. "Because I ... I want to be a Dj! I want to dedicate myself to this" . All of them told me: "Wake up! Low to this world Dany! It's a very hard world and very difficult to live for! The world of the night is not a nice place to work"

These phrases made me angry and I told them: "I don't care what you say, or what you think! I will not  ask you for money or help! I want to be Dj!" I lift from the table without having finished my supper, and I went to my room to play trying to let me out all the anger that I felt at that moment.

Meanwhile, one by one, went into my room to let me see my desire from another point of view, their personal point of view. And they tried to make me believe that my decision was a madness!

Even my brothers who had also been Dj's, and had worked in some club. I thought perhaps they would support me in my decision but it was quite the opposite. They are who were more opposed to my decision

Later I spoke with my mother, and she wonder me why I had taken that decision? She said to me: "Don't you think that you're getting very far with your fantasy." I answered her: " I know that can looks a little crazy, and I am aware that I am not going to get my dream in two days. But only I ask you to be patience. Maybe in two years or more I'll be coming true my dream, to be a professional DJ".

She tried to change my decision, but I was very clear about my intentions for the future. Although they tried to change my mind, they wouldn't get it. The only thing that they get was to increase my desire to show the world that I wanted to be an authentic DJ profesional.

In the afternoon I decided to meet me with my friends, seeking for their support, and encouraging words. I explain them the conversation that I had with my family, and their lack of support. The words from my friends were on a similar way than my family opinion. I remember that my friend Felipe told me: "Dany, you know that I am with you. I told you for million times that you're a genius playing, and your mixes are awesome. But I think that your family is right. This world is very difficult and I don't want to see you disappointed with yourself.

Right now thinking on all these words, I think there were natural advices coming from people that appreciated you. They just tried to protect me about could have been a blow to my life.

But none of these words that they said made me doubt from my purpose. I had only one objective in mind for my life, and I was decide to fulfill my dream.

None of the words which told me my loved ones got me change my decision.

I had already taken a decision and the time had come to work on it more than ever. I was decide to fight to get it. I was sure it was going to get sooner

I...

Wanted to be a DJ!!!

Chapter 5: The beginning from Dany BPM

The course of 8Gbs had come to an end. And with this I began to feel the first responsibilities from getting older. I had to choose whether I wanted to continue studying, working, or a new course for my life

At that moment I wanted to study Image and Sound, as it was most related to what I was passionate about, but there were no vacancies free to enter. My parents decided to move and live in another town, St. Feliu de Llobregat. There were a big part from my father's family .

For me that was a big problem, since I had to quit my life-long friends, at a key moment in my youth. I was at that time that you start to go out with your friends, etc. I felt enormously alone in that village, away from my friends, without knowing anyone.

My father did not like my often visits to my ancient village "Sant Boi". So some days in hiding from my father, I was going to Sant Boi to see my friends. Sometimes they came to visit me with their bikes and we went every Thursday to the cinema.

In many of my getaways I did some meetups in DJ's houses that I had known. We spent hours playing, we looked at the disks that we had, we exchanged disks forever or for a season.

I was not comfortable with my name. I had recorded a couple of tapes (which I still have) and I just didn't liked my name of Dany Destroy. It was then when in one of my visits to the home from my friend Felipe it will start something new. Felipe is my friend from childhood. Our friendship came by one from his brothers, José Luis. He was a friend of my brother Jero for many years, and he was the person who taught me to start playing.

At Felipe and Joseph's house there was a small study mounted on their room with a few dishes, a keyboard, and a computer where he produced their first tracks. Suddenly I saw on his table a small book of an electronic music festival which was celebrating at their first edition in Barcelona. The well-known festival known today as "Sonar"

The small booklet was a present that you get at the entrance from this festival, and was called: Dictionary of electronic music. on there were described all the technical words used in the dance music. For me it was like a treasure found, because contained much information from which I wasn't aware at that time. Words that were very difficult to know If no one has explained it to you

I had read with great attention until the last page, and when I finish reading it, just a word resounded on my mind ... it was ... B. P. M. (Beats Per Minute)

Number of beats that has a song per minute, indicates the speed at which you goes a song. Against most bpm's hague, faster anger.

Very thoughtful I said to myself: "Dany BPM! YESSSS! I love it! This is my real name!!" Once again I wanted to share with everyone! Not only I went to ask my friends what it seemed to them this name, if not I started to tape recording as a madman, and drawing my name in all places.

Bit by bit The new news about Dany in Sant Boi were taking greater relevance and be heard and that meant that each time I had more tapes to record; increasingly people requesting me for tapes to carry them in their walkman, cars, etc. .. My popularity was increasing, as well as the amount of tapes that could be heard by the people. Even put them at fairs, amusement arcades, etc

Since I had nothing to do in Sant Feliu de Llobregat I devoted myself to record the tapes that people were requesting .The only thing that made me happy at that time. I don't want to forget to mention the only friend that i did in that people, Kike.

In that moment he became into my biggest confidant, I shared with him the hours that I was not before the plates. And I remember that more than once he defended me of some fight. Because he knew the whole people from St.Feliu, and he was quite big (to his side I seemed their key ring LOL)

Also with him, we flocked to a light-disco called MOES. Every Saturday and Sunday afternoons. (Disco from which on next chapters I will tell you nice experiences, and which became my first residence.) I spent the summer without a final decision about something clear to do with my life. For this reason I opted to study an electronics professional formation.

It was not at all clear, but I had to do something with my life. At the institute I did not want to mingling with the other students. In that institute nobody knew that I was a Dj, but little by little I got to know other guys that were interested in that world, and I shared my views.

Once, one from my teachers ordered me to the equipment room looking  for some rubbers, pencils and paper print. And there I found a gold mine! Packages that containing ten tapes! I thought to myself: "Wooowww! With the money that I spend in tapes!!" and my head had a brilliant idea… "Why not to take some boxes, and then sell the tapes? In this way I can buy more vynils."

I started to inform all people that  requested me for tapes with my session, that I was going to start to sell them 500 pesetas each unit. All the people complained this, because they had been accustomed to get it for free, but I told them:

If you want I can record on it a personal dedication with my micro and with these 500 pesetas, I will be able to buy new vynils and to have a better music for my sessions. It seems that those words came out good effect, and it was so as I started to do my first business. I was also aware that I began to raise jealousy among the rest of DJs that were beginning. Which they saw my tapes on Sant Boi's streets, and in addition were paid! Without no doubt it was the beginning for …. Dany BPM

Chapter 4: My first contact with the people

Year 1996

The course of 8or of E. G. B. was coming to an end, and logically the class had to organize the trip for the end of course! The girls wanted to go to Rome and the boys to Mallorca. After a long discussion, the boys won! And then it was time to plan activities that were going to do there. While they discussed all things we could do, I said:"Hey also, we could go to a disco!!!"

I remember that was a huge silence while the entire class was turning to look at me with murderous faces. "Go to a disco??" said one of the most popular girlsand staring back at me with a huge disgusting face!  "Yeah! A disco!!" I answered her with an ironical tone.

"Also I know that there is a discotheque there called BCM and people say that it is the largest one from Spain." The thing remained there and was not discussed anything else about it. It was time for the awaited trip, and tired to sell coupons to the family and friends to raise money ... was the moment to take the boat that would take us to Mallorca!

On the boat you could find something similar to a disco, but the music was very commercial and I was already full of "Makinero's  pride" . All the music I heard was extremely commercial, and the only thing that I did was to laugh about my classmates, and see how they enjoyed the music that was too light for me, because I was a  "genuine makina boy"

In my suitcase I had an entire arsenal of club T-shirts clubs such as: Scorpia, ACTV, Chocolate… shirts that my brothers gave me, and I was wearing with great pride. Although I had never been in these clubs.

Perhaps I had gone to any light-party feasts of my city, but nothing else. But I was very happy,  because I felt me different, and of course more unique.

The first day to be in Mallorca, after having made the typical visits to the beaches, monuments, and sites that particulary ... it bored me for a lot. We arrived at the compound where we stayed. Teachers gave us the typical orders: "You cannot enter drink, and you can not change your rooms during the night". Logically, the teachers were stayed next to my room that I shared shared with Marko. They were conscious that we were not followers to comply with the rules, and I think they knew that we were going to do the our tricks.

We were warned that in the evening we would go to a sort of disco-pub that was in the same compound where we were, and so it was. Night fell, and whole class went there. I remember it was a small and dark site, with sofas in the living room (where you could find the most boring classmates there) to the fund had a bar, and something that surprised me ... a music cabine with a DJ!

While the rest of the class were dancing to the rhythm of these light music that I hated, Marko and I stayed sitting in the bar, away from all the classmates and looking at the DJ and commenting on it how bad it was and that I was much better than he

(Let us not deceive ourselves, all the DJ's we have done)

On next day, whole the class was very happy to have gone for first time to a disco, and I laughed about them with irony telling them: "All of you have had a great time yesterday night. Maybe  we could go to the BCM Disco tonight? Compared with this club will be much better!" But they did not want to, they just wanted to repeat on the same pub where they enjoyed last night.

That afternoon, while everyone was on his meal time, appeared a young man on a motorcycle, and Marko said aloud: "Look at him bro! It is the dj! why don't we go to ask him if you can play tonight at the disco pub?" And so it was, we gather a few friends and we go to look for DJ.  He was on his motorbike, watching a bunch of kids requesting an opportunity for his friend!

After much keep harkin, the DJ with a small smile as thinking (kids!!) said: "Well worth it! I'll let you to play two disks!" My pride and my happiness came to the highest point! It's time to come to silence the mouths from my  classmates!!  Those fingers who said that I was crazy.

I got into my favorite shirt, that was a drawing of an OVNI grabbing the world, (when I think about it now, maybe my subconscious made me choose this shirt for my desire to achieve my goal ... ) The afternoon was eternal.

I spoke with Marko about that awaited moment. Night fell and we came back to the club. First thing I did was to go directly to the DJ and ask him: "Do you remember me? Do you  going to fulfill your promise?" My classmates muttered between them, and they were laughing about me, my teacher too. Everyone thought It was a prank, but I was completly seriously

Away from them, once more Marko and I were sitting in the bar overlooking the DJ and hoping to be called, and finally ... He fulfilled his word! He called me and said: "Hey! You! Come here! Do you know how it works?" "Course!!" (I told him with security and pride ... )

 “Let me five minutes check your vinyls for a while!” I started to check it and not knew none, until ... hey!! hold on! There it was! Potenzia! I know it ! I also found another one of my favorite records, from Pink Records called New York. "Well! I am already ready!!" I told him. He gave me their headphones and I started to work

My entire class was in front of the cab of the DJ, eager to see what I was going to do, including my teacher with a smiling face. I took the headphones, puncture the needle in the vinyl, equalizing the equipment and volume and I began to mix

 (I wanted to show to the DJ that all was under control) the faces of my colleagues were changing with the time goes by. And a great feeling of happiness took hold of me

The DJ  applauded me and told me: "Yeah manl! You are great, a phenomenon! You've surprised me!" I felt me immensely happy and proud of my work! Finally, in a false action, my colleagues came to congratulate me on the good work that I did

"Now don't you think that I am a weird guy, doesn't it?" I told them. After holding their huge lie, I quickly went to talk with my friend Marko, I know he could give me his point of view, a real point of view, his true opinion. Marko told me: "The Dj was going crazy! He was telling at the lights man: "Look at this man!!! Look at this child!

Jordi was my teacher, with which I never had never a good relationship because of my devilry, but his words were amazing for me. Was the last person who came to talk with me. With a face full of pride and smiling came up to me. He put his hand on my shoulder and told me: "Dany ... I don't understand anything about this music, but I have seen all the passion you had put and I get surprised.  If you continue on it with this passion, you will get very far away.

I guess you can imagine how well I slept that night.

Chapter 3 - My beginning as DJ

CHAPTER 3: My beginning as DJ
 

Summer from ’95, My life is about to change

We could say it was a transformation from child to teenager. It took me months to do those "mega mixes" with the tapes, and practice with the dishes from my brothers when they were not home

I felt me more than ever a DJ, and different from other guys around me. But I really wanted to become: a real DJ! I could not ignore to get a cool name, something to make me feel closer to my goal. It was time to get the right name!

I remember one day I told to my brothers to let me see the album covers to find a word that called my attention, and to be consistent with "makinero style." I was looking for a name that sounded impressive to hear! And I had few information ...

 (Don't forget that at this time there was no Google, so I had to find my luck myself)

I looked at all the covers and credits for the magic word, and was writing down the ones which called my attention ...

Among so many vinyls ... baaaammmm !

Came one that caught my attention. The album was called

 "Barraca Destroy"

woooow! I said to myself ... Dany Destroy! Sounds cool!

 On that moment I felt me like a real artist baptized! I was anxious to tell all my friends.

On that moment it was not very common  to be a DJ, and at classroom all my partners looked at me like a freak to go with the walkman all day listening this music that they didn't understand. And I was trying to infect everyone!

(The Walkman! What a nice times!)

With those cassette tapes, which lasted between 60 and 90 min! Well ... back again

I remember that I shared headphones with my friend Marko, to analyze the tracks that called our attention and joking with some of the voices that we heard.

i turned the volume up and down!

(I know many of you have done it too hehe)

The truth is that I was not a very good student, I was a little thug too. I spent hours at class drawing my own flyers and putting my name with the best DJs of the moment.

My friend Marko was a genius with Paint program; and he designed some flyers.

We talked about how great it would be to have our own club.

We create our own stories and we imagine us becoming boss from a big club. The girls we were going to meet, and how famous that we were going to be.

Even we had created our own label which we had called  "Pachus Records"

The logo was consist in a bitten green chupa chups ...

now I know that may sound absurd and outdated, but for two small boys, with no information, is wasn't too bad to think about having your own business, doesn't it??

I can't describe my progress in my first few months ahead the dishes, neither I didn't have something to give me the steps to follow, no one to tell me if I was doing it right or wrong ...

I was putting into practice, and watching the nightclubs videos that my brothers brought at home, listening the tapes from other dj's, or watching my brothers when they played at home, and those things that called my attention. Then I copied them at home in my eagerness to be equal, like these dj's which I saw as idols, and untouchable people.

Imposed an enormous respect for me, seeing them so calmly and in front from so many people. I remember coming to the end of 7 GBS course, my classroom mates wanted to do a party at the school gym, and I had proposed the idea to do a show where I could be the DJ, and of course to play the "Makina style!"

I offered to rent some dishes, and a table, and I would take my vinyls. Again I want to emphasize, that although it may seem normal to have this equipment at home right now, or that many of your friends could be dj's ... at that time I assure you that was not common to have one of those equipments at home, this meant that all the others looked at you as a different person from the rest of them

I tried repeatedly, but the boys and girls from my class were not willing to do that ...

I discussed and I mocked them, because they refused to hear the music they cataloged as "boring".

I didn't understand his offense on this music when I saw them listening famous compilations that have marked many young people from my generation as: Makina Total, Bombazo Mix, Trance Mix,   Blanco y Negro Mix, Bolero Mix,  and many others ...

My struggle to defend the music that I liked, and my hobby as a  Dj, began to hurt my havoc, being rejected, and seen as a different boy from the rest…

The rest of the people was limited to hear topics "pop" and very "soft music" for me, with rhythms that are very slow, as for example:

Wigfield - Saturday night ,

Scatman Jhon - Im Scatman, among others ...

It was August, and my brothers were on vacation to Almeria, where I have my father's family. I could be for two weeks practicing with the vinyls…

Can you imagine the satisfaction that I could feel???

Two full weeks, where I was going to have the dishes just for me!

This is when I decided to record my first meeting in a tape

(tape that I still retaining as a treasure in my trunk for the memories, under the name of Dj.Dany Destroy)

Whenever there was an opportunity to be able to play on that tape in public, there I was! Cars, rooms of friends, fun in class, and could not miss… in my walkman!

Record my sessions and show it to others rewarded me. And although I felt I different from the rest of them, I liked the idea of being more "unique", and I was beginning to feel curiosity of being playing in front of people, and I wasn't going to stop until get it

After first objective, which was to learn, I though about my second goal:

To play in a club in front of people and show them what I did in secret with my vinyls…