Kabinenparty

Austria doesn’t need beach holidays. It has municipal swimming pools, enough sunshine to pretend the Adriatic is unnecessary, and apparently it’s still summer there while Germany is already sneezing its way into October. Admirable, honestly.

Martin Skerwald goes by Skero, is a street artist and rapper from that landlocked republic, and came up through the Linz hip-hop collective Texta before going solo. His track Kabinenparty, featuring the Brazilian-Austrian DJ and producer Joyce Muniz, is lifted from the album Memoiren eines Riesen—Memoirs of a Giant—and it sounds lighter than any late September has a right to. Something Caribbean in the production, something unhurried in the delivery. The premise is exactly what the title says: a slow, cheerful party in a public swimming pool changing cabin. Chlorine-scented venue, no cover charge, everyone welcome.

There’s something I like about that insistence on making the mundane into an occasion. You don’t need the exotic. You just need Skero, Joyce Muniz, and a changing room with decent acoustics.