Portland, ME an old city by American standards, is streaked with streets of cobblestone & brick, each cut & laid by hand in a precise & indestructible grid, even now peeking through the weak tar hastily over-paved in the name of progress, the past literally breaking through the present. There couldn’t be a more apt metaphor for Portland’s own Milled Pavement record label. Started in 2002 as a venue to release his own music, label owner Moshe’s Milled Pavement imprint inevitably gained local & regional notice, not only as an anomaly in an indie hip hop world, but also for the judiciously minimal sound & underlying thematic elements it unearthed from such a sparsely-populated, sleepy little corner of New England. With this heightened awareness of the label’s presence came cultural import in influential circles, culminating for its artists in worldwide distribution & promotion deals, as well as high-profile reviews and countless awards & accolades from various specialty publications, organizations & online media. This led to cross-pollinate among the myriad brother & sister labels also promoting real-ass art through true grit, setting the stage for MP to develop from local to global, with artists eventually spanning the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Scandinavia & Japan. With an unwavering work ethic & unparalleled networking savvy, Moshe has cultivated & curated an ever-broadening roster under the MP banner brick by brick, showcasing new musical forms further & further from the label’s hip hop & New England roots, but ever more honed towards a palpable aesthetic of postmodern electro-organic angst & anomie. Through encouraging and developing artists worldwide who hear that unsettling creak of the past in the floorboards of the dystopian future, those who dig the dirt of work & grease of inspiration, Milled Pavement offers innovation on a post-global scale, & presents a monolith of music future rupturing the pop-culture tundra.