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About Scoobert Doobert
Scoobert Doobert is a lofi hifi wifi music project from San Diego, California: self-produced indie pop, chill pop, funk, lofi, and homemade studio music for people who like hooks, jokes, feelings, tape hiss, beach weather, internet brain, and burritos.
Born on the internet and raised near the coast, Scoobert Doobert makes songs that sound sunny even when they’re about trying not to collapse. The project lives somewhere between songwriter record, bedroom studio experiment, California postcard, comedy bit, and sincere little prayer. Most of the music is written, played, produced, recorded, and mixed by Scoobert himself, which is both the problem and the point.
The music
Before Scoobert Doobert became a full-time recording universe, Scoobert spent years as a working musician, touring as a guitarist and vocalist with The Doobie Brothers and opening for Gregg Allman while playing with Lara Johnston. After the road, the work moved deeper into production, engineering, and collaboration, eventually folding those skills back into the Scoobert catalog.
The solo project started from a bedroom and slowly became a many-room house. Early releases led to I’m an Idiot, which landed on Spotify’s New Music Friday and helped connect Scoobert with the Japanese band CHAI. That became Miracle (Scoobert Doobert Remix) on Sub Pop’s WINK TOGETHER, followed by more production and songwriting with CHAI, including WHOLE, the theme for the NHK drama 恋せぬふたり, and MY DREAM, from the film さかなの子. The Japan thread runs all the way through: the collaborations kept going: CHAI, then OKAME, KOMAGOME, and the Tokyo band bed, whose Fuji TV drama theme Scoobert co-produced, alongside the language-learning and a two-date run in October 2024: The Otomachi Festival at a mountain temple in Zaō, Miyagi (Oct 14), then an all-night LOSS × beformer party at Shimokitazawa THREE in Tokyo (Oct 18), and the general belief that a good melody can travel farther than your passport.
Scoobert Doobert albums include Big Hug (a San Diego Music Award nominee), KŌAN, Moonlight Beach, MÖB, and I. MÖB and I open the MÖBIUS cycle, a four-part album arc about loops, memory, California, Japan, friendship, identity, and trying to get somewhere without fully leaving the place you started. The catalog is large, strange, and still expanding: close to 300 registered compositions across singles, remixes, collaborations, demos, visual releases, alternate identities, and songs that may or may not exist because the burrito demanded it. The cover art across the catalog, and the project’s visual identity, is the work of Grizzard Graphics.
The music has circulated through official playlists, indie and German radio, Japanese film and television, and international collaborations, and Scoobert has worked with a wide cast of artists and players including CHAI, OKAME, bed, Tamtam, Kerri Medders, Nina Francis, Lou Roy, Jamie Drake, Limón Limón, Victor Marc, and Josh Shpak. The best way in is simply to listen.
And yes, the kitchen takes outside orders: Scoobert is a mixing engineer & producer for hire. He mixes, produces, and plays on all of his own records, and he will do the same for yours. Hear the proof on The Reel (productions & collabs throughout; the mixes are at the bottom), then write to beformer@aol.com.
Love Music More
Scoobert Doobert also hosts Love Music More, a newsletter and podcast on the craft, philosophy, and history of music, a top-10% music podcast with conversations across every genre and every role, backstage to the stage: Grammy-winning engineers and producers behind Adele, Beyoncé, Metallica, Janet Jackson, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Lana Del Rey, and St. Vincent, plus punk founders, scene-builders, and the people who actually decide how a record sounds. New episodes Tuesdays; deeper dives on Substack.
Plato, out loud
And beyond music, Scoobert has read the Greeks: Plato’s Dialogues, as Read by Scoobert Doobert, with the Apology out now on Spotify, Apple Books, and TuneIn , and, improbably, cataloged by a Canadian public library, which means somewhere a librarian has filed the burrito under “author.”
At its core, Scoobert Doobert is abundant songwriting with a smile on its face and a suspicious amount going on under the hood: beachy, dense, goofy, earnest, overcaffeinated, over-reverbed, and usually trying to hand you something warm before it disappears.
Scoobert Doobert is the recording, podcasting, and audio-project name of Luke Francis Walton.
The philosophy of the pizza
This website is the archive of all of it. It opens as a deliberately ugly 1996 “electronic pizza storefront” and, if you let it, falls backward through the web eras and drops you into a low-poly world off the coast of San Diego, a long-overdue delivery on a promise the early web made and never quite kept. The retro costume is a joke. Underneath, this is a real musician’s home on the internet, and every link here goes somewhere real.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Scoobert Doobert?
Scoobert Doobert is the recording name of Luke Francis Walton, a musician from San Diego, California: self-produced indie pop, chill pop, funk, and lofi, close to 300 registered compositions, written, played, produced, and mixed by Scoobert himself.
Does Scoobert Doobert mix or produce records for other artists?
Yes — he is a mixing engineer & producer for hire. Credits include collaboration with CHAI across Sub Pop and Sony Music Japan and placements on NHK and Fuji TV, and he mixes, produces, and plays on all of his own records.
How do I hire Scoobert Doobert for mixing or production?
Email beformer@aol.com with the subject "Mixing / production inquiry". That address reaches him directly.
What is The Reel?
The Reel is his hire reel on Spotify: productions & collabs throughout the playlist, with the mixes at the bottom, proof of the work before you write.