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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."

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*$WAMI$* (say it “Swami’s,” like the beer and the beach) is the second Scoobert Doobert LP after [*Finding $D*](/albums/finding-d-remastered/), before [*Dragon Ball $d*](/albums/dragon-ball-d/). It landed on [Bandcamp as *$WAMI$ (LP)*](https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Iv0SgQRdV4) 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](https://purplemelonmu.com/2017/08/08/chatterbox-scoobert-doobert/) 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](https://www.91x.com/music/scoobert-doobert-dont-worry/) 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 $D*](/albums/finding-d-remastered/) is the rough first lab notebook. *$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](https://glassefactory.com/scoobert-dooberts-new-track-think-about-it-is-experimental-funk-at-its-finest/) 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](https://open.spotify.com/album/0snncczcASNqBLeu3TbH3h), 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*](/albums/dragon-ball-d/), **instrumental** (no song-meaning page). Same recording as *Aaahh!!! Real Monsters*, the closer on [*Finding $D*](/albums/finding-d-remastered/): cartoon outro on the debut, DBZ trailer here. The bonus already pointed at [*Dragon Ball $d*](/albums/dragon-ball-d/).