Tom Breihan , March 10, 2010   The 27-year-old Brooklyn-based
dance producer Ezra Rubin, known to the world as Kingdom, does
not do subtle. On his "Mind Reader" EP, gigantic, crashing
basslines share space with diva howls and chest-imploding
snares. His is a melodically generous dance music sound, one
that prizes immediate hooks and dizzy adrenaline over patience
or open space. Kingdom claims recent-vintage commercial R&B and
UK garage as prime influences, and those genres' slickness,
combined with the pounding immediacy of classic house music, are
what make the EP go. And it was co-released by two of indiedom's
cooler labels, Fool's Gold and Acephale.  We recently caught up
with Kingdom to see what's good with him.  Pitchfork: How long
have you been making music?  Ezra Rubin: My whole life. I've
tried to learn a couple of instruments. I took piano lessons and
stuff like that when I was a kid. But my piano teacher actually
was really into computer music, and she was the one who taught
me MIDI when I was 12. S