Hoppy Kamiyama Vocal Synthesizers Samples Neuz Violin Gram-Pot Reck Guitar Metal Cavasa Bass Otomo Yoshihide Guitar Turntables Backing Vocal Masafumi Minato Metal Cavasa Backing Vocal Drums The Original Concept Of OPTICAL*8 Created By Japanese Keyboard Monster Hoppy KAMIYAMA Was A New York-Based Experimental Rock Outfit In Collaboration With Marc RIBOT Guitar Dougie BOWNE Drums Percussion And Sebastian STEINBERG Bass . Soon After Releasing Their Eponymous Debut Album And Another Studio One In 1992 Hoppy Took A Drastic Remedy For Producing Another Conception In OPTICAL*8 - That Is They Altered Themselves Into A Pure Japanese Experimental Project Filled With Indivisuality Incarnated By Hoppy RECK Bass Masashi MINATO Drums And Yoshihide OTOMO Guitar . The New OPTICAL*8 Have Released Two Studio Albums - "Bug" 1994 And "Gender" 1994 - And One Live Album "All Over" 1995 Via Hoppy's Own Label God Mountain