Haymaker Records is an independent record label from Kansas City, Missouri.  Created in 2014, Haymaker telegraphs the sounds that push the boundaries of conventional music.  The label is home to artists performing progressive music in the realms of psych, space rock, math rock, experimental, and post-rock, but with an ear for intelligent pop music.

Sonic space exploration. Cheap keyboards. CAN. PSYCHEDELIC. tape cassettes of Tones On Tail and Simple Minds. Italian invasion of US record stores. drummer obsessed with free jazz. 60's psych nuggets found through crate-digging. D_U_B! British Invasions of US soil from 60s and 80's. Addiction to melody. 

Peaks, Valleys & Plateaus is a podcast primarily about people in and around the creative world. The creative world to me consists of a very broad spectrum of people. Visual artists of all types, musicians, performance artists, podcasters, tattoo artists, stand up comedians, film makers, and any creators of content.
Also on this podcast you’ll hear from entrepreneurs and business owners of various creative and sometimes even noncreative fields. This is not a self-help podcast but rather real and honest conversations from creators who are just doing what they love.

Sonic prognosticators Monta At Odds is a Kansas City combo led by the brothers Dedric and Delaney Moore. Dedric's pulsing, melodic bass and Delaney's artfully unhinged synthesizers frame the band's central character, which is fleshed out by a talented cast of musicians and collaborators. The result is a heady sonic pool that has been inscrutably referred to as ‘Ummagumma meets Arthur Russell’s mutant disco at Vangelis’s house.’

2021 finds the addition of acclaimed vocalists and songwriters Mikal Shapiro and Teri Quinn to the band’s lineup of Krystof Nemeth (Emmaline Twist) on baritone, Matthew Heinrich (Mysterious Clouds) on drums, Kenn Jankowski (The Republic Tigers) on synth, and Lucas Behrens on guitar and synth. With Mikal and Teri's otherworldly vocal contributions, along with guest Your Friend, Peak of Eternal Light, released on the Record Machine label,  is a cosmic sonic journey stopping off in post-punk and dark synthpop galaxies.

Monta At Odds continues to push their alternate reality into streamlined consciousness. Expect minimal rhythms set to maximum noise, shoegazed guitar signals, slo-mo psychedelic darkwave, endless dub echo, and extended-cut warped disco. Live musicians manipulating time and space via knob turning, cymbal cracking, and pedal pushing as they interlock into hypnotic moments of heavenly bliss that seem to hold forever, captivating the mind.

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