Relaxer emerged from NYC in 2016 as the new project from Daniel Martin-McCormick fka Ital. Over a run of self-titled EPs and an album "Coconut Grove" for Ave 66, he has explored lush techno with a feral punk spirit informed by two decades of innovative sidewinding in the US underground. Lithe, contagious grooves are a platform for a psychologically charged atmosphere -- humid with creeping paranoia, evocative melancholic melodies and moments of startling evisceration. Relaxer’s hardware live set premiered at Berghain in 2017 and since then has been performed at De School, Sustain-Release, Institut fuer Zukunft, Griessmuehle, Mutek SF and more. He lives in New York where he co-runs the label & party series Climate of Fear, collaborates with Aurora Halal as Halal & Relaxer, and co-directs the Sustain-Release festival.