Hoppy Kamiyama
{{short description|Japanese keyboardist and music producer (born 1960)}}
{{Nihongo|Hoppy Kamiyama|ホッピー 神山|Hoppī Kamiyama|born 1960}} is a Japanese keyboardist and music producer who has worked with artists such as eX-Girl, The Pugs, Bradford Reed, Bill Laswell, Jan Linton, Marc Ribot, Hugh Hopper/Elton Dean and Damo Suzuki.{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p311886}}{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r945533|label=Soft Mountain review}}
Biography
His record company, God Mountain, was named after the English translation of his family name.{{cite web|url=http://www.rockofjapan.com/hoppykamiyama.html |title=Interview with Hoppy Kamiyama |accessdate=2007-07-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621130000/http://www.rockofjapan.com/hoppykamiyama.html |archivedate=2007-06-21 }} God Mountain was established in 1993 after his frustration with EMI pulling two of his albums from sale.{{cite web |url=http://www.k-mania.com/gm/indexe.html |title=A Brief History of God Mountain |accessdate=2007-07-17 |work= }}
Kamiyama cites Mauricio Kagel, Luciano Berio, Iannis Xenakis and Karlheinz Stockhausen as his influences – artists with a "bizarre sense and distorted feel and touch".{{cite web|url=http://www.underwateramsterdam.com/sharkbitesaug2003.html |title=Shark Bites! interview |accessdate=2007-07-17 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070706113400/http://www.underwateramsterdam.com/sharkbitesaug2003.html |archivedate=2007-07-06 |url-status=dead }}
His nickname is derived from Hoppy, a cheap Japanese liquor that he drank during his early professional musician days.
References
External links
- [http://www.k-mania.com/findex.html Official fan site]
- [http://www.k-mania.com/gm/indexe.html God Mountain]
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Category:Japanese record producers