For the cutting tool, see scissors

Scissors

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Safety Scissors is Matthew Patterson Curry, a minimal techno

Minimal techno

Minimal techno is a minimalist sub-genre of techno. It is characterized by a stripped-down aesthetic that exploits the use of repetition, and understated development. This style of dance music production generally adheres to the motto less is more; a principle that has been previously utilized, to...

 artist born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

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 for a short while in order to attend San Francisco Art Institute. Curry then decided to focus more on music and eventually joined Belief Systems/Context Records where he began working with Kit Clayton

Kit Clayton

Joshua Kit Clayton, better know by his stage name Kit Clayton, is a San Francisco-based electronic and digital musician and computer programmer...

, Sutekh, and Twerk. Curry also performs with Seth Horvitz (aka Sutekh) under the name Moron. In 2000, he moved to Berlin

Berlin

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Curry has released three full length albums, Parts Water in 2001, Tainted Lunch (released on Stefan Behnke's ~scape

~scape

~scape is a Berlin-based record label focusing on various subgenres of electronica and experimental music.Since the label was founded in 1999, label owners Stefan Betke and Barbara Preisinger have signed numerous artists, such as Jan Jelinek, Deadbeat, and John Tejada....

 label) in 2005, and Pigeon Funk Presents!!! with Sutekh. Parts Water was described by CMJ New Music Monthly

CMJ New Music Monthly

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as "a perfect headphone record", including what reviewer Tim Haslett called "possibly the first attempts by a techno artist to write pop tunes".

He also collaborated with Kit Clayton on an EP

Extended play

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 entitled Ping Pong, which sped through three dozen tracks in less than twenty minutes. Ping Pong was part of Carpark Records

Carpark Records

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' sports-FAN series, so named because each release was pressed on a Fan CD.

From 2001 until 2006, Curry ran his own label Proptronix which was dedicated to fake electronics.

Albums

• Parts Water (2001), Plug Research

1. "Two Letter U's"
2. "A Wash"
3. "Stormy Weather"
4. "7 Glasses a Day/7 Days a Week"
5. "Your Beautiful Feet"
6. "Esperanto"
7. "Before (Less)"
8. "(Water)phone"
9. "Sailor Stripes"
10. "Dipsy Daisy"
11. "Sipper"
12. "Mirror (Wet)"

• Tainted Lunch (2005), Scape

1. "I Am the Cheese"
2. "Sunlight's on the Other Side"
3. "Breastbone"
4. "Amnesia, I Need You to Remind Me"
5. "A Fly in My Soup"
6. "After Disaster"
7. "Love Lately"
8. "L'Amour D'Cuisine"
9. "Here Come the Housewives"
10. "Where Is Germany and How Do I Get There?"

Singles, EPs

• Rubber Stamp EP (1999), Context
• Pigeon Funk Presents!!! EP (2002), Onitor - with Sutekh
• "Sunlight's on the Other Side" (2005), Scape
• Camping 01 (2007), BPitch Control - single split with Ben Klock, includes Ellen Allien's remix of "Where Is Germany and How Do I Get There?"