Moonlight Beach

Moonlight Beach is the Encinitas record. After KŌAN (paradox, Japan, spatial audio), this LP is set in a physical geography: Encinitas, ocean air, covers, collaborators, burritos, bonfires, and songs that sound built to be played outside instead of only inside headphones.

Finding $D is the lab notebook. Swami’s is the collage LP. Dragon Ball $d is the narrative hip-hopera. Masks and Monsters is the pandemic record. Little Hug is the small recovery object. Big Hug is the post-pandemic LP. KŌAN is the four-part koan with Japanese-language songs and spatial audio. Moonlight Beach is the place-record, radio record, and live-body record.

Bandcamp Moonlight Beach dropped May 19, 2023 ($8 or more, 24-bit/88.2kHz). Ten tracks, about twenty-eight minutes, on Spotify and Apple Music, ℗ 2023 Beformer. Album art by Gentle Giant Illustrations; mastering by Riley Knapp.

Moonlight State Beach is an actual Encinitas beach: California State Parks lists it as operated by the City of Encinitas, with a snack shack, rentals, playground, and Junior Lifeguard programs. On Apple Music, Luke notes that Feels So Good was written thinking about best friends on Moonlight Beach, beer in hand: a platonic love song for the homies.

Moonlight Beach has covers and guests. Walk Don’t Run, Dancing in the Moonlight (Beach), and Low Tide are covers; Bubby Lewis and Jamie Drake are featured; Gonna Go to Japan follows the Japanese-language songs on KŌAN; and the closer, möbius . spuǝ ʇᴉ ʍoɥ ʇoN, carries the name of the planned four-part cycle (MÖB → I → US → MÖBIUS) that begins with MÖB. MÖB and I are finished; US is in progress.

Public radio logs show FIP plays for Walk Don’t Run (Ventures Cover) and Dancing in the Moonlight (Beach). FIP is Radio France’s nationwide eclectic station: curated, genre-spanning, built for discovery rather than chart repetition. For Gonna Go to Japan, the logs on record are smaller: GRRIF logged the title twice on 25 septembre 2023 (12:28, 17:25), and Radio Nova’s catalogue des titres lists GONNA GO TO JAPAN as title ID #38775 (03:05) without a confirmed broadcast date from the accessible search result. Not a campaign: un petit fossile public beside the FIP cover plays. On the Munich/Bavaria side, egoFM featured Scoobert in a Radiowelt interview, a written California-week blog feature (beer, burritos, Encinitas), and a hosted Privataudienz guest hour (~25 min online cut): his curated track picks, his stories, funk and current favorites in rotation. egoFM broadcasts in Munich at 100.8 FM and across other Bavarian cities.

In a 2021 VENTS interview, Scoobert said he had not yet played live as Scoobert Doobert and was still figuring out solo performance. By the egoFM interviews around 2021–2022, he was talking about turning the virtual, live-stacked Scoobert idea into a real-world thing and starting to play out.

EARMILK described Ocean View as a laidback, summer-tinged, self-produced track with live guitar, bass-driven grooves, and a calm ocean-facing quality.

The record has a beach, a snack shack, guests, covers, radio stations, and a crowd. What comes next is MÖB: the first Möbius turn.