MADRID, Spain, October 24, 2026. Planeta Gayfolk does not appear on any map. It is an imaginary world, invented by Mike Sain't Louis across a trilogy of albums and hundreds of songs and videos, where nobody has to hide in order to live. And yet listeners who spend time with the catalogue quickly notice something curious: the planet keeps landing in real places. Its songs name towns, beaches, museums and skies that anyone can visit. This release offers a short atlas of those destinations.
**Benidorm, the unofficial capital**
No place appears more often in the catalogue than Benidorm, the resort town on Spain's Costa Blanca famous for its skyline of towers rising from the beach. In "Mi salvador", a bilingual dance track, it is described with total affection: «En Benidorm, where dreams live». In "El día de la liberación", a song about leaving a manipulative partner, it is the place where the narrator finally feels free: «Yo feliz en Benidorm».
For Planeta Gayfolk, Benidorm works as a kind of capital: a town where the ordinary rules seem to loosen, where nights last longer and where queer life is visible on the promenade. Several songs are set on its terraces, its clubs and its coves. One of them, "La playa del mal pas", is named after a small beach tucked between the harbour and the old town.
**Madrid, the starting point**
Mike Sain't Louis is based in Madrid, and the capital is the point of departure for many of the planet's journeys. The English-language anthem "Madrid to Benidorm" draws the route in its title, connecting the city's streets with the coast in a celebration of Pride that crosses the country. Madrid appears across the catalogue in neighbourhood stories, in satirical portraits of everyday characters and in the background of songs about starting again.
The relationship between the two cities, the inland capital and the seaside resort, mirrors something real in Spanish queer culture. For many people, the summer trip to the coast has long been a moment of freedom, a few weeks when it was easier to be oneself away from home.
**Paris and the museums**
The planet also travels abroad. Two tracks look towards France: "Louvre", which takes its name from the world's most visited museum, and "Paris restera gris", a French-titled song whose very name suggests a city that stays grey. Elsewhere, "La de la capilla Sixtina" points to the Renaissance ceiling in Rome. In all these cases the great monuments of European culture become settings for very personal stories, as if the planet wanted to borrow some of their grandeur for its own heroes.
**The northern sky**
At the other end of the map is "The Northern Lights", a slow, spacious track that looks up at the aurora. It is one of the few places in the catalogue without people, only sky and light, and it reminds listeners that Planeta Gayfolk is not only a social space but also a landscape, with its own weather and its own nights.
**The coves and the open sea**
Beyond the named places, the catalogue is full of unnamed coastlines: rocky coves, empty beaches at dawn, piers and promenades. The sea is perhaps the most constant presence in the planet's geography. It appears in songs of recovery as a place to breathe, in dance tracks as a backdrop for nights out, and in videos as a horizon to walk towards. The photograph accompanying this release is one of those shorelines: a pink-tinted beach at sunset, with a pair of trainers left on the wet sand and soft points of light floating in the air. Someone has taken off their shoes and walked into the water. It is a fitting image for arrival.
**Why real places matter**
An imaginary world anchored in real geography does something powerful. It tells listeners that the planet is not completely elsewhere. Pieces of it already exist, on a terrace in Benidorm, on a Madrid street, in a museum corridor, under a northern sky. The utopia is not a fantasy of escape but a way of looking at familiar places and imagining them safer and freer.
That idea runs through the whole project. Planeta Gayfolk is presented as a place where nobody needs to justify who they are, and its songs keep suggesting that this place can be built, little by little, wherever people decide to make room for one another.
**Planning the trip**
The easiest way to explore the atlas is to listen. Every song mentioned here, along with the rest of the catalogue, can be streamed and downloaded at no cost and without registration from the downloads page on mikesaintlouis.com and from the free shop on gayfolkplanet.com. The lyrics of each track are published unaltered on gayfolkplanet.com, each next to its official video, so that listeners can follow the route song by song.
- The planet's songs and lyrics: https://gayfolkplanet.com/letras
- The blog of Mike Sain't Louis (in Spanish): https://mikesaintlouis.com/blog
- Free downloads: https://mikesaintlouis.com/descargas
- Free shop: https://gayfolkplanet.com/tienda
About Mike Sain't Louis: the first AI songwriter («el primer cantautor IA»), based in Madrid; lyricist, composer and music producer and creator of the GAYFOLK trilogy and the Planeta Gayfolk universe. He writes all his lyrics, and the music and vocal performance are made with AI. Label: MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS. Distribution: Ditto Music. Website: https://mikesaintlouis.com · Press: https://gayfolkplanet.com/prensa · Free music: https://mikesaintlouis.com/descargas and https://gayfolkplanet.com/tienda