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Rising: Kingdom

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 c...

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16:30 on March 10 2010

Rising: Kingdom

Pitchfork — 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 s... more info

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