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Sensational

Real Name:Colin Julius Bobb
Profile:In 1995, Sensational, going by the name of Torture back then, came to the attention of WordSound through Bill Laswell. It was then that he started recording his debut solo effort, "Loaded With Power", an album like no other in the annals of hip-hop. CMJ called it, "The most bold and experimental hip-hop record of the last couple of years," but even this is an understatement. The tripped-out flows, the broken beats, the lo-fi ambience all created an epic event in hip-hop that largely went unnoticed by the Puffy-worshipping masses. And to think, it was all created by one man using only a four-track, a drum machine and a turntable.

Sensational, in fact, has never been one to sample. Even though he upgraded to an 8-track for his sophomore effort, "Corner The Market", all of his sounds were original and played all the way through a track (since he didn't have any type of sequencer). He even got a real microphone this time around (instead of recording vocals through his headphones like on Loaded), wowing heads with his blunted poetry-in-motion-sickness.

Sensational currently lives on any couch he can crash on, and makes blazing hip-hop each and every day of his life.
URLs:http://www.myspace.com/chunkobliss
Aliases:Perfection, Torture
In Groups:Crazy Wisdom Masters, Jungle Brothers
Name Variations: All | Sensational | Sensational (C. Bobb) | Sensational Chunkobliss
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Releases:
Loaded With Power (Album) ◄ (3 versions)   WordSound ... 1997
Corner The Market (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   WordSound 1999
Beat, Rhymes & Styles (12")   Matador 2000
Heavyweighter ◄ (2 versions)   WordSound 2000
Party Jumpin' / Livin' It Up (12")   Matador 2000
Get On My Page (CD, Album)   Ipecac Recordings 2001
Natural Shine ◄ (2 versions)   WordSound 2002
Crown Material (CDr, Album)   Chunk O Bliss 2005
Speaks For Itself (CD, Album)   Quatermass 2005
Sensational Meets Kouhei (CD, Album, Enh, Dig)   WordSound 2006
Basiado Beatdown ◄ (2 versions)   Lanquid Music 2007
Production:
The Ill Saint Presents Subterranean Hitz, Volume 3 - The Ill School ◄ (2 versions) Let's Hear It WordSound 2000
Appears On:
The Second Coming ◄ (2 versions) Pillars Of Smoke (Retu... WordSound 1997
Bad Blood (Album) ◄ (3 versions) Dusted Reprise Records ... 1998
Ice Promo (CD, Album, Promo) Dusted Morpheus Records 1998
Hydrophonic (2xLP) Get Into This WordSound 1999
So... How's Your Girl? (Album) ◄ (3 versions) Torch Song Trilogy Tommy Boy Music 1999
The End (CD) High Plains Drifter, P... WordSound 1999
The Return Of Kill Dog E (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Pockets Fat WordSound 1999
Who Said [What?] / Psychotic Episodes (12") Psychotic Episodes (Al... WordSound 1999
Acoustik Addiction 2 (Cass, Mixed) Pockets Fat Wool Music 2000
Metabolics Volume II: Dawn Of The Dead (CD, Album) It Ain't Goin Down Lik... WordSound 2000
Parts Unknown ◄ (2 versions) Skrippin', Jamdown, Po... Quatermass 2000
Formula (12", Promo) Formula Klein Records 2001
Irony Is (CD, Album) Black Spring, Black Sp... NovaMute (US), NovaMute (US) 2001
Musicians Are Morons EP (EP) ◄ (3 versions) Black Spring (featurin... NovaMute ... 2001
Encounters (Album) ◄ (6 versions) Formula Klein Records ... 2002
Musikexpress 63 - Virgin (CD, Comp, Promo, Car) Formula Musikexpress 2002
Quatermix (CD) Skrippin' Quatermass 2002
SPEX CD #15 (CD) Formula Spex Magazine 2002
Stagnation Reversed [Volume 2] (Cass, Mixed) Pocket Fat Cypha' Prayer 2002
Einar Örn (CDr, Smplr, Promo) Boink, Mess Up Honest Jon's Records 2003
Ghostigital (Album) ◄ (3 versions)   Honest Jon's Records ... 2003
Psychic Wars (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Blazed, Hocus Pocus WordSound 2003
Retrospectre (CD, Comp) Pillars Of Smoke, Psyc... Quatermass 2004
See The Light (CD) Formula Eighteenth Street Lounge Music 2004
WS50: The Video Album (DVD, Ltd) Pillars Of Smoke (Retu... WordSound 2004
Drug Wor (CDr, Album) It`s On (What U Forgot... Not On Label 2005
In Cod We Trust (CD, Album, Dig) Good Morning, Northern... Ipecac Recordings 2006
In God We Trust (CD) Good Morning, Northern... Honest Jon's Records, Honest Jon's Records 2006
Transcendent (15xFile, MP3, Album) The Grind WordSound Digital 2006
Fantasy Is Fucked (LP, Ltd, Pin) Yeah Baby, God Bless T... Quiet Records (4) 2007
Internal Dynasty (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Trillin' Wordsound Digital ... 2008
It's Sensational (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Quiet Records (4) 2008
Memoria (2x12") Freak Inspector Morphine Records 2008
Wristcutz (CD, Album, Ltd) Level It Out, Level It... Systemkaos 2008
Landforms (8xFile, MP3, Alb) Sulphur Goat WordSound Digital 2009
Dissection (Cass, Mixed) Torch Song Trilogy Audiomicid  
Tracks Appear On:
Shake The Nations (2xCD) Skit N' Scatterin' (El... WordSound 1997
The Ill Saint Presents : Subterranean Hitz Vol. 2 ◄ (2 versions) Dancehall Navigator, C... WordSound 1998
Collision Course ◄ (3 versions) That Of The Wall Shit PIAS UK ... 1999
The Ill Saint Presents Subterranean Hitz, Volume 3 - The Ill School ◄ (2 versions) Let's Hear It WordSound 2000
The Wire Tapper 6 (2xCD, Dig) Paper Chase Wire Magazine 2000
Communication Problems (2xCD) Rhythm Swang Vibragun 2002
Crooked - The Movie / The Soundtrack (CD + DVD) In My Town, Chunky Bud... WordSound 2002
Crooked: The Original Score (CD) How 'Bout Some Credit,... WordSound 2002
Crooked: The Original Score (2xLP) How 'Bout Some Credit,... WordSound 2002
Stagnation Reversed [Volume 2] (Cass, Mixed) Livin' It Up Cypha' Prayer 2002
Best Of Black Hoodz - Vol. 1 (Vinyl, Comp) Smoke It Exact, Show &... Black Hoodz 2003
Planting Candytrees (CDr, Comp, Mixed) Superstyling Vulgar 2003
Weapons Of Mass Destruction (LP) So Damn Insane, Toxic ... WordSound 2004
The Remixed Demo (CDr, Album, Promo, Ltd) Party Jumpin' (Remix) Not On Label 2007
Dissection (Cass, Mixed) Other Side Of The Blac... Audiomicid  
Galactic Snatchers (Cass, Mixed) Perfecta Muthaphucka Antiwhack Production  
Poisonoustereo (Cass, Mixed) I B Stylin Audiomicid  
The Horrorap Vault (Cass, Mixed) Extravaganza Antiwhack Production  
User Reviews:
genet, Apr 15, 2004

Sensational is the hip-hop equivalent of Thomas Manns Aschenbach character, "the patron saint of all those who labor at the edge of exhaustion".
His brutal, minimalist style rubs some folks the wrong way, as if it were pretentious or overwrought. Nothing could be further than the truth. This is basement, 4-track, dirty analogue drum machine hip-hop at its best. Sensational is an eccentric guy to be sure, but his imagination and hyperreal/surreal lyrics and flow never fail to provoke and challenge his listeners.
Dont sleep.

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