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The Brooklyn underground MC and artist Sensational, aka Colin Julius Bobb, has passed on. I read this news on experimental musician Kohei Matsunaga's Facebook page. As Matsunaga was one of Sensational's primary collaborators, I trust the source.

As far as I am aware, Sensational was one of the only MCs Autechre worked with through their whole career. Well, sort of—they remixed Sensational and Matsunaga, but the track is so singular that it feels like a direct collaboration, almost.

Sensational's credits and collaborations with weird, underground, challenging, and left-field musicians is miles long. He was an extraordinary rapper and artist. One of a kind.

I hope his life ended with dignity and his memory blazes onward.

Hi, I’ve just published a new longform interview with Spencer Doran of Visible Cloaks.

We chat through their excellent new album, the evolution of their live set, and we go deep on video game sound design, covering Doran’s soundtrack to the game Season.

Thought it might be of interest to folks in this sub.

Hi, I’ve just published a very long interview with two artists I think are at the absolute forefront of American bass music right now: K Wata and E Wata.

I’ve been hesitant about posting my writing here as I’m not trying to break any self-promo rules but I figure I’m going to give it a shot in this case since I work very hard on this publication and it feels very on topic for this group.

The complete interview is restricted to subscribers only, but that includes free subscribers.

I haven’t published much writing this year but I have a series of interviews I’ll be publishing in the next month or two that I’m super excited about. If you tap in, I hope you enjoy.