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$WAMI$
Metadata
- title
- $WAMI$
- description
- The 2018 second LP 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
- instrumental
- true
- song
- vegeta-is-bulmas-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
- song
- 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
- instrumental
- true
- song
- scoobert-snack-pt-2
- title
- Spice Up the Bedroom With Spirit Cuffs
- song
- 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)
- song
- 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 covers the Encinitas side: 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 lab notebook. $WAMI$ is a collage packet of interludes, joke titles, recurring characters, stoner theology, anime cosmology, and short sincere pop/funk gestures. Scoobert Snack, Pt. 2 (instrumental), 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.
Tracklists differ by venue. This page follows the Bandcamp $WAMI$ (LP): 20 tracks, May 9, 2018, ~32:52, free download. That is the collage as Luke sequenced it.
Spotify $WAMI$ is a different object: 18 songs, 35:33, dated October 19, 2018, shorter titles. It drops five Bandcamp-only cuts (Vegeta Is Bulma's Bad Boi, Fragments of Sappho, Spice Up the Bedroom With Spirit Cuffs, What a Velma, What a Night (Quickie), I Can Show You A Whole New World (on a Magic Carpet Ride)), inserts Essence of You plus the Running with the Shaggy and Adonde Eres remixes, and closes on the Nick Belcher vocal Next Time on Dragon Ball Sd instead of the Bandcamp instrumental closer. Shared titles can still differ in length: Bandcamp Shaggy Connections is ~0:47 where Spotify lists 3:58; Scoobert Snack, Pt. 2 is ~1:11 vs 2:01.
The YouTube visual album is a third cut: extra interludes that never made Bandcamp (including 12 Unethical Cleaning Hacks You Won't Learn In School). If a title looks wrong on Spotify or YouTube, that is why.
Bandcamp closer: Next Time on Dragon Ball SD, instrumental. Same recording as Aaahh!!! Real Monsters on Finding $D: cartoon outro on the debut, DBZ trailer here. The bonus already pointed at Dragon Ball $d.