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title: "Finding $D"

description: "The origin-point debut: every song written, recorded, mixed, and mastered in a single flu-haunted day, cartoon self-mythology as bedroom-pop and funk experimentation."

year: 2017
releaseDate: 2017-05-27

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

bandcamp: "https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/finding-d-lp"
spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/1RD1nblfKnDDT42FXZ0eZL"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/finding-%24d-remastered/1506552414"
youtube: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXl2RLmEvNc&list=OLAK5uy_koKNRc2F0YM1rdfX91dAi17hI-TEcO4Dw"

tracks:
  - { title: "What a Velma What a Night", song: what-a-velma-what-a-night }
  - { title: "My Scoobert Snack", instrumental: true, song: my-scoobert-snack }
  - { title: "My Friend, Scoobert", song: my-friend-scoobert }
  - { title: "My Meddling Kids (Hallelujah Sexy)", song: my-meddling-kids-hallelujah-sexy }
  - { title: "Damned", song: damned }
  - { title: "Economic Kama Sutra", song: economic-kama-sutra }
  - { title: "Gud Gud Medicine", song: gud-gud-medicine }
  - { title: "Mother of Exile", song: mother-of-exile }
  - { title: "Theme for Himalayan Salt Lamp", instrumental: true, song: theme-for-himalayan-salt-lamp }
  - { title: "Aaahh!!! Real Monsters", instrumental: true, song: aaahh-real-monsters }

press:
  - outlet: "91X FM"
    url: "https://www.91x.com/music/scoobert-doobert-dont-worry/"
    desc: "Local Break origin story: Encinitas, Swami's, garage cops, church jams, and learning to play everything yourself."
  - outlet: "Stereofox"
    url: "https://www.stereofox.com/scoobert-doobert-my-scoobert-snack/"
    date: "2017-07"
    desc: "Producer/musician profile; on “My Scoobert Snack,” from when the first two singles both leaned on the cartoon homage."
  - outlet: "Last Day Deaf"
    url: "https://lastdaydeaf.com/91-qa-with-scoobert-doobert/"
    desc: "Q&A on the early posture: raw chaos with pop hooks, DIY after friends left for college, funk and Beatles in the bloodstream."
  - outlet: "Glasse Factory"
    url: "https://glassefactory.com/scoobert-dooberts-new-track-think-about-it-is-experimental-funk-at-its-finest/"
    desc: "Artist note: every song on the LP written, recorded, mixed, and mastered in a single day; “Gud Gud Medicine” tracked while sick with the flu."

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*Finding $D* is Scoobert Doobert’s first LP (say it “Finding SD,” as in San Diego): the origin-point record in the public catalog. Ten songs, about thirty-three minutes. **Every song on the LP was written, recorded, mixed, and mastered within a single day**: Luke Francis Walton solo on all of it. Not a polished debut statement so much as the first visible lab notebook: a voice arriving before it has learned to hide its seams.

[Bandcamp *Finding $D (LP)*](https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/finding-d-lp) dropped **May 27, 2017** ($7 or more, 16-bit/44.1kHz). Tags there say bedroom pop, lo-fi, alt-rock, San Diego. Most streaming platforms now carry it as [*Finding $d (Remastered)*](https://music.apple.com/us/album/finding-%24d-remastered/1506552414), listed **March 9, 2018**, ℗ 2020 Machina Sacramentum. Spotify still has both the original and remastered entries. Treat **May 2017** as the original release and **March 2018** as the remaster date unless distro-side docs say otherwise.

[Glasse Factory](https://glassefactory.com/scoobert-dooberts-new-track-think-about-it-is-experimental-funk-at-its-finest/) quotes Scoobert on the same sprint: the whole debut LP, write, record, mix, master: in one day; *Gud Gud Medicine* was tracked while he had the flu. That frames the whole thing as a fast, slightly feral identity artifact. [Last Day Deaf](https://lastdaydeaf.com/91-qa-with-scoobert-doobert/) catches the artist posture around the same era: music with friends in high school, staying in San Diego to learn production after bandmates left for college, sound that moves between raw chaos and pop hooks, “shitty playing” and precise moments, funk and Beatles in the bloodstream. [91X](https://www.91x.com/music/scoobert-doobert-dont-worry/) tells the Encinitas prehistory.

The cartoon shell is deliberate: Velma, Scoobert Snack, meddling kids, *Aaahh!!! Real Monsters*. [Stereofox](https://www.stereofox.com/scoobert-doobert-my-scoobert-snack/) picked up “My Scoobert Snack” in July 2017, when the first two singles both leaned on the cartoon homage. *What a Velma What a Night* also got traction on Reddit's r/listentothis as pop/funk. The joke names aren't just novelty. They give the project permission to be sincere, weird, and rough without getting precious. Underneath: DIY bedroom-pop/funk/alt-pop experimentation.

**Instrumentals (no song-meaning pages):** *My Scoobert Snack* (track two), *Theme for Himalayan Salt Lamp* (track nine), and closer *Aaahh!!! Real Monsters* (track ten). Seven lyric tracks on the LP now have annotation pages. *Aaahh!!! Real Monsters* is the **same recording** as [*Next Time on Dragon Ball SD*](/albums/wami/) on [*$WAMI$*](/albums/wami/), cartoon outro on the debut, DBZ trailer on the lore-dump LP, both instrumental.

What comes next is [*Swami's*](/albums/wami/): the lore dump.