Hoppy Kamiyama
Hoppy Kamiyama 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.
Hoppy Kamiyama
- Born
- 1960 · Saitama Prefecture.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- record producer · music arranger · composer · keyboardist · musician
- Languages
- Japanese
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His record company, God Mountain, was named after the English translation of his family name. God Mountain was established in 1993 after his frustration with EMI pulling two of his albums from sale. Kamiyama cites Mauricio Kagel, Luciano Berio, Iannis Xenakis and Karlheinz Stockhausen as his influences – artists with a "bizarre sense and distorted feel and touch". His nickname is derived from Hoppy, a cheap Japanese liquor that he drank during his early professional musician days.
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 29 August 2026.
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