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$WAMI$
Metadata
- title
- $WAMI$
- description
- The 2018 lore dump after Finding SD: a free Bandcamp collage LP, bathrobe nostalgia wave, Encinitas beach weirdness, and a visual album with even more interludes.
- year
- 2018
- releaseDate
- 2018-05-09
- artist
- Scoobert Doobert
- artistId
- #scoobert
- bandcamp
- https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/wami-lp
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/album/0snncczcASNqBLeu3TbH3h
- youtube
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Iv0SgQRdV4
- tracks
- title
- Prometheus and Groove
- song
- prometheus-groove
- title
- My Ass Is Wifi Ready (But You Need a Phone Plan)
- song
- phone-plan
- title
- Vegeta Is Bulma's Bad Boi
- title
- Friends
- song
- friends
- title
- Romantic Capitalism
- song
- romantic-capitalism
- title
- I Want Yu Yu
- feat
- Babidi
- song
- i-want-yu-yu-feat-babidi
- title
- Fragments of Sappho
- title
- Jeff Sessions (Good People Don't Smoke Marijuana)
- song
- jeff-sessions-good-people-dont-smoke-marijuana-feat-beauregard-the-third
- title
- Smoke That Weed Like Scooby Doobie Do
- feat
- Babidi
- song
- smoke-that-weed-like-scooby-doobie-doo-feat-babidi
- title
- Scoobert Snack, Pt. 2
- song
- scoobert-snack-pt-2
- title
- Spice Up the Bedroom With Spirit Cuffs
- title
- Adonde Eres
- feat
- Babidi & Gokudaxij
- song
- adonde-eres-feat-babidi-gokudaxij
- title
- What a Velma, What a Night (Quickie)
- song
- what-a-velma-what-a-night
- title
- Shaggy Connections
- song
- shaggy-connections
- title
- I Can Show You A Whole New World (on a Magic Carpet Ride)
- title
- Mother of Exile
- song
- mother-of-exile
- title
- Running With the Shaggy
- song
- running-with-the-shaggy-feat-babidi
- title
- Smarter Child (Slight Return)
- song
- smarter-child-slight-return
- title
- RIP, Smarter Child (1996–2017)
- song
- rest-in-peace-smarter-child
- title
- Next Time on Dragon Ball SD
- instrumental
- true
- song
- aaahh-real-monsters
- press
- outlet
- Purple Melon
- url
- https://purplemelonmu.com/2017/08/08/chatterbox-scoobert-doobert/
- date
- 2017-08
- desc
- On Swami’s Beach, Encinitas, and writing after wandering the Self-Realization Gardens.
- outlet
- 91X FM
- url
- https://www.91x.com/music/scoobert-doobert-dont-worry/
- desc
- Local Break origin story: Encinitas, Swami's, the Surfing Madonna, the Cardiff Kook, and learning to jam alone.
- outlet
- Glasse Factory
- url
- https://glassefactory.com/scoobert-dooberts-new-track-think-about-it-is-experimental-funk-at-its-finest/
- desc
- Artist note: second record, nostalgic wave, all recorded in a bathrobe.
- draft
- false
Content
$WAMI$ (say it “Swami’s,” like the beer and the beach) is the second Scoobert Doobert LP after Finding $D, before Dragon Ball $d. It landed on Bandcamp as $WAMI$ (LP) on May 9, 2018: a free digital album, twenty tracks, about thirty-three minutes. Luke Francis Walton wrote, played, tracked, mixed, mastered, and cut the visual album himself. Babidi and Gokudaxij show up on featured vocals; Louis Cole sits in on the drum-and-bass moments (Vegeta Is Bulma's Bad Boi, Shaggy Connections). The kit is real; the loops are borrowed from Nate Smith, Efa Etoroma Jr, and Bernard Purdie and then deliberately messed with.
The title has an Encinitas root. A Purple Melon interview has Scoobert tying a single back to Swami’s Beach: one of the main Encinitas breaks, named after Paramahansa Yogananda, with a song born after wandering the Self-Realization Gardens and feeling creeped out by religion. 91X repeats the local myth: Swami’s, the Surfing Madonna, the Cardiff Kook, bandmates gone for college, learning drums and bass and production by jamming with himself. That local surf-spiritual weirdness is the seed; weed humor, cartoon escape, and internet brain are what grew.
Finding $D is the rough first lab notebook. $WAMI$ is the lore dump: less a conventional album than a collage packet of interludes, joke titles, recurring characters, stoner theology, anime cosmology, and short sincere pop/funk gestures. Scoobert Snack, Pt. 2, What a Velma, What a Night (Quickie), and Mother of Exile make it feel like a remix of the debut world, not a clean second chapter. Glasse Factory quotes Scoobert calling it nostalgic wave, all tracked in a bathrobe. Tags on Bandcamp say bedroom pop, lo-fi, alt-rock, San Diego. That tracks.
Public metadata is messy on purpose or despite it. Bandcamp: 20 tracks (~32:52). Spotify: 18 songs, 35:33, shorter titles, remixes folded in. YouTube visual album: an extended collage cut with extra interludes (like 12 Unethical Cleaning Hacks You Won't Learn In School) that never made the Bandcamp LP. The tracklist here follows Bandcamp; if a title looks wrong on Spotify or YouTube, that's why.
Closer: Next Time on Dragon Ball SD, instrumental (no song-meaning page). Same recording as Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, the closer on Finding $D: cartoon outro on the debut, DBZ trailer here. The bonus already pointed at Dragon Ball $d.