who was willy dee??

Will “Wakabuggie” dee was an independent electronic artist born and raised in Hamilton Ontario. Self-producing and recording albums since 12 years old, all the while refusing to sit still through tutorials forced Will to come up with a very distinctive sound. Growing up in rural Ontario Will has always had a deep connection with nature, which features prominently in their music, both in atmosphere and subject matter.

They were absolutely stoked to be featured in Toronto record label Imaginary North’s 2023 compilation Today Until Tomorrow which was able to donate 1,000 USD to Music Declares Emergency, a musician-run climate change fund. Wakabuggie was later featured on Imaginary North Transmission 007 and The Longest Time.

Throwing together their first performed set for a High School coffee house in November of 2023 Will accidentally began their live music career. Since then Will has played tons of shows on that school stage, as well as at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. , Theatre Aquarius , and later on at Vertagogo.

MEGASMEGMA

From the same school stage with horrible acoustics came another act, known as MEGASMEGMA. Fighting the censorship thrown apon them by the ever-being-replaced school administration team, guitarist Luke Rebello and producer Willy dee came together to make some unapologetically energetic bangers. As times changed and highschoolers forgot how to have fun without being drunk or on whippets, the smegma boys felt it was their duty to force feed just a little bit of "fun" into the school system.

Spending rehearsals in the vice principal's office and spending absolutely zero effort on P.R. MEGASMEGMA was easliy the best possible group of individuals to bring back this long lost "fun" to the humble learning institute of Dundas Valley. (previously called "Highland" but they had to change the name due to complaints and a lot, a lot of irony)

On Novmeber 28th, 2024, MEGASMEGMA had their first out-of-the-school-gym gig, playing at a sick punk venue in Hamilton Ontario called Vertagogo. This gig absolutely changed the game for them, and Willy described the event as "sick as shit"

SKUNJRAT

In the summer of 2024, Willy finally had their driver's license and found themself going to a lot of small community raves. They had always loved dance music and tried various times to make half-decent side projects that were more rave-ready than their usual ambient leaning work. this time, however, the inspiration was fully there, bringing SkunjRat to life. Will took complete and utter creative liberty with this project, naming tracks stupid names and making bass drops as loud or unconventional as he wanted. Originally as a joke to make fun of sampling culture, Will began ripping vocals from top 100 charts from the 2010's in order to infuse their tracks with chops that ring out a hint of familiarity, with the memories of kind of crappy pop songs that everyone forgot about.

Shortly after the birth of this new alias, Will taught themself how to dj on a cheap makeshift dj setup (and some sketchy freeware software that they absolutely charish, called Mixxx ) and with that, SkunjRat hit the local rave scene, playing shows at Dsptch open decks and at a friend of a friend of an ex-friend's birthday party. (now a friend :3) Will's experiments with SkunjRat never really got old for them , because of just how beautiful bringing strangers together with music can be.

SHORT FILMS (TOTALLY AWARD WINNING)

Will's extensive career of hobbies didn't end at music. Will was the writer and director of various short films, including (but not limited to) The Bread Thief (2023) and Mark & Wheaton(2022) although school burnt them out and they stopped doing the things they loved towards the end.

DEATH