Chapter 11: Winning mentality

The great day  arrived. 

The moment in which all was going to be decisive.

 I couldn't fail me to myself, or my friends, neither my dream. 

I gathered some friends to come and support me in this important day for me.

 We went by train to Calafell. I was a nervous, and my friends kept telling me :

 Dany going to win! Today you will bring home the Technics!

We arrived at the club and Juan asked us:

 -Well, you are 3. Which order do you want to follow???

 Obviously, no one wanted to be first, and we did a raffle.

 I was going to be the third, which I liked.

 We went straight to the stage, and the jury was composed by professionals of the moment:

 Alberto Tapia, Jordi Beat, Skryker, Juan Cruz, El Brujo ...

 The first DJ was not too bad, but he didn't attract the attention from jury 

(which I was cautiously observing)

The second neither did wrong. But he chose to mix Progressive, which asleep some people who were on the dance floor.

As the minutes passed by, I looked closer to the big win, and I was  prepared to start my mixture with something that was going to call the attention from all.

Before the end from the second session, there was a power outage that lasted a couple of minutes.

Thinking for my own benefit I knew that despite the great pity that this meant for the deejay who at that moment was playing, that was going to benefit me. Since the jury began to talk among themselves, and could forget the previous performances.

It was my turn! It was time to give my all. 

To impress not only the judges, but also the audience in the room.

While Juan Cruz was talking about the contest to the people, 

I quickly grabbed two vinyls, and without no time to prepare them I started both from the beginning.

Juan said:

Well, it's time to receive to our last finalist. He is: Dany BPM.

 After two seconds of silence, I did something that seemed to impress much at all.

 I turned up the channels, I warned that I would put a track, I turned up the other channel, 

and then I put the intro from the second track, and I put both at once,   

and quickly with the two sounding simultaneously, I managed to equalize   

them at a speed that would not last more than 2-3seconds.

My mix lasted almost as long that both albums lasted, and was composed of:

Xavi Metralla - Vibration (undoubtedly the best "Makina" base of that moment)

And a sung theme that at that time few people had, and it was my favorite named:

Kangaroo - Promises

I knew I had succeeded in drawing attention with this mixture and the way to start my session. But my only goal was to get over my rivals. Therefore, before ending my mix, I said a few words by the microphone (which none of them had not done)

I knew everything was going perfect and as I planned. The following mixtures that occurred were of the same intensity and the same energy than my beginning, so until the end of my session .

I went down to the track, and seized my nerves, (funny, but during my session I was not at all.)

My friends had to go back home early, so I was with my friend Marko to keep me company. I went down to the floor and he said:

You have definitely exceeded at them ! It's obvious that you're going to win!

 I honestly also thought the same, but the doubt came over me, because many things could happen

After a long wait, Juan called the finalists to take the stage, and said:

Well, it's time to know who is our winner, our elected ...

And the winner is ............. Dany BPM!

That moment I lived it with a lot of intensity. In a few seconds passed many things in my head, all my efforts, that moments that I wanted to leave it all, the words that people told me about how wrong I was with my decision ...

While I was with those thoughts in my head, the jurors came up to congratulate me and tell me that I

Many of them told me that if I continued down the same road, I could go very far on this music world.

Juan invited me to have a drink, and he asked me:

- How will you do to take the turntable?

 I said him:

 -I came by train, but nothing happens.

 He responded by saying:

 -You're crazy! How you'll get it on the train? It weight too much!!

 -It's okay! I can take them with the help of my friend! (I didn't want to leave there without my coveted prize)

 At the end of my session, I called my parents to ask if they could come to look for me, and it was my father who finally came.

As soon as I got home I explained all my experience to my family while I was replacing my old turntable for the new and deserved Technics I had earned.

The faces on my family and friends were changing, and began to change the apathy and irony to their congratulations.

My mother told me:

Well, at the end you will be right!

 I noticed that when she spoke, his real tone meant:

"Care, this child seems to be serious on his acts."