The
boundary between 'artist' and 'geek' is fine, yet frequently unacknowledged
or concealed by overzealous intellectuals. MPC (i.e., Safety Scissors) does
little to hide his social awkwardness in the quirky techno he produces and
performs. If anything, he would rather admit to being a geek than to being
an 'artist' or a 'musician'. 'Anonymity is much more interesting. It's silly
when people say they are an artist or a musician. They're just trying to
cover up for something else- that they don't have a girlfriend or smell
bad or suffer from alcoholism'.Although he is the ultimate dork debonair, MPC does not over-obsess with the computing process. Singing on his latest works for Force Tracks and Plug Research, MPC experiments with camp techno. Upcoming releases on Carpark and his own label Proptronix similarly pervert techno formula with an electric ukelele and bubble gum.
MPC has an abstract and clumsy approach to making music and distinguishes himself from the intellectualism of abstract/minimal techno. The proud drop-out of the art school establishment pursues neither expressions of unmediated human feeling found in Abstract Expressionism or regimented lines of stucture in minimalism. Rather, with subtlety and smoothness, he references both in his unique sense of sarcasm.
When MPC is not sucked into the creative vortex of his studio or dragged out of town by his duties to music audiences worldwide, he likes to eat ice cream and ride his bicycle. Recently, he has fallen off his bike and sprained his wrist. In another incident, he injured himself in an unmentionable area while hopping between wooden posts.
Contact him via the amazing internet: ss(@)proptronix.com
Discography:
Rubber Stamp EP: Context 01
Free Range Deductions EP: Force Tracks 13
Neomoronics EP: Tektite 08 (Moron)
Delay 05: Delay 05 (split with Sutekh)
Grounds For Foreground EP : Force Tracks 22
Plug Research 10" (split with Languis)
Lost at B EP : Cytrax 16
Either Or EP: Plug Research
Parts Water CD/2LP : Plug Research Compilations and Remixes:
Deadpan Escapement: Belief Systems 04 (with Sutekh and Twerk)
Second Array: Tektite 05 (compilation) (Moron)
Deadpan Escapement Reconstructed: Context 04 (compilation)
Forcelab 02 (compilation)
Material Problem: Cytrax 15 (remix of Kit Clayton)
Through the Cell Wall: Kodama 13 (compilation)
Banana Republic, Volume 1: Beta Bodega Coalition (compilation)
Intermissions: Plug Research (compilation)
Context 06 (compilation)
SF Bass: Exact Science 01 (compilat ion)
Frustache - whitelabel : Hefty (remix of Slicker)