Contributor - Ava is a freelance writer, radio and TV producer, and DJ based in Portland, Oregon. She works full time for Wieden+Kennedy (www.wk.com) and contributes regularly to The Portland Mercury.

Her mind is fixated on electronic music about 90% of the time. She has to block out the constant stream of beats, clicks, glitches, and synthesized basslines in her head in order to get anything accomplished. She can explain the difference between Detroit electro and Chicago house, tell you why Berlin became the epicenter of minimal techno early in the new millennium, and guess with startling accuracy how many beats per minute are in any song after hearing a three second sample.

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