Ashe Kilbourne, who performs under the name Kilbourne, is an electronic dance music DJ and producer based in

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. She plays

hard techno Hardcore (also known as hardcore techno or hardcore house) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany in the early 1990s. It is distinguished by faster tempos and a distorte ...

and

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, and also plays in

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bands. She started making music when she was a student at

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and then joined the DJ collective kunq. In 2017, she played ''Bloodrave: Music From Blade'', a re-imagined score for the film ''

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