As a DJ, her selections burn the unmistakable swing of Latin club music into ironclad techno frameworks, and as a producer and composer, she drifts seamlessly from avant-garde and drone modes into experimental dance music without hesitation.
Since her graduation from Brown University in 2010, Martinez lived in and was involved with electronic music communities in various places in South America. It was her permanent move to New York City in 2013, where Martinez traded the synth rig for a USB, DJing regularly in the local dance scene and establishing the Debit moniker. Her debut album "Animus" was released in 2018 by Mexico City collective N.A.A.F.I., and wove pneumatic club sounds with melancholy ambience, receiving acclaim from FACT, Resident Advisor and Noisey. She swiftly followed it up with "Love Discipline", a beatless opera of futuristic, cinematic and sinister soundworks.
While she was studying a graduate degree in Music Technology at NYU, Martinez assembled her most defining statement to date, "System". This EP solidified the duality of her unique approach, reconstructing tribal guarachero music using sounds snatched from industrial techno. "System", which featured collaborations with Teklife's DJ Earl and tribal innovator Javier Estrada, was universally acclaimed, and placed prominently on year end lists at FACT, Pitchfork and Resident Advisor.
In 2022, Martinez released her next album "The Long Count", an ambitious electro-acoustic tome that delves into the past to peer into the future. Using research she made into Mayan wind instruments and how AI could aid in a creative recontextualizing of the instrumental archive, Martinez developed digital instruments and harnessed machine learning to compose music that feels completely out of time. The album was on legendary British imprint Modern Love in February and it was placed in best album of the month at Resident Advisor, Mix Mag, Dj Mag, while being named the Global Album of the Month by the Guardian. The album received critical acclaim and features in BBC 3, Pitchfork, Dazed, ID, amongst many others and was ranked 3rd best global album of the year at the Guardian.