Hosted by 80 Mundos bookstores in Alicante this Friday at 19:00, a lively jam session comes to life as part of the Beatmeeting Cru collective. Born in 2022 as an independent, self-managed group, the crew gathers in parks and open spaces, bringing portable gear and a circle of friends to share their rhythm. It’s a free-form freestyle gathering where ideas flow as easily as the beats do.
Different makers join in, showcasing their talents, voices, and techniques to inspire one another. The vibe blends instrumental hip hop, lo-fi textures, samplers, vinyl, and hands-on hardware—everything needed to shape rhythms organically, without relying on computer-driven production.
Beatmeeting Cru is also focused on reaching younger audiences by choosing family-friendly venues and programs. The plan for the 80 Mundos bookstore event mirrors this approach: transform the bookstore into a space where books share the spotlight with music, offering a way for families to enjoy culture together, much like how plastic arts already enrich the courses the venue hosts.
The group has already taken part in major events with large stages and workshops, including Alacant Desperta, Rocanrola, and Urban Tactics festivals. Yet it remains committed to street jams in Alicante and across the Valencian Community and is open to presenting its format in other cultural venues.
“Ghost Dog” by the Creator
Saturday at noon, the bookstore will host a conversation with a writer, activist, journalist, and bookseller who will introduce a new poetry collection and discuss its themes. The event sits within a broader poetry release and showcases a cross-pollination of literature and spoken word.
The poetry collection explores the gray zones of social exclusion and, within a late-capitalist framework, presents a polyphony of voices and characters living in a kind of self-imposed exile where action can feel nearly impossible. The work invites readers to hear these voices as they navigate a world that often silences them.
The book, with a foreword by a known editor, can be read as a single luminous piece or as a fractured song about identity’s collapse. It follows a drug-affected rhapsody and a notebook-scribbling wanderer, serving as vehicles from a desert coast where despair blends with a bleak interior landscape.
Inside this work, three interconnected sounds emerge: a self-portrait of a man who has shed fear, who is bold and unafraid, who can be both obscene and compassionate, beautiful and harsh, just and furious like a deity or a demon. It is the story of someone returning from the desert as a wiser, if more reckless, traveler.
Southern landscapes such as Murcia, Cabo de Gata, and Mar Menor color the poems. The author examines tourism and neglected neighborhoods, places worn by time and left to decay, and finds a strange beauty that resists market rules and rises from the wreckage.
The author holds degrees in Spanish Philology and Social Work and has produced multiple books of poetry, narrative, and history. Works include early and later volumes that span echoes of meteorology, public spaces, music for elevators, and explorations of identity. The poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines and has earned international recognition.