Jonah Sharp

"Spacetime Continuum" redirects here. For the space-time continuum, see Spacetime.

Jonah Sharp (alias Spacetime Continuum) is a producer, remixer, and DJ of electronic music.[1] Sharp was born in Edinburgh. After starting his musical career as a jazz drummer in London, U.K., he moved to San Francisco, U.S.[2] During the 1990s Sharp released a series of albums on the Astralwerks record label. The first of these, entitled Alien Dreamtime,[1] featured a live recording of ethnobotanist, writer and psychedelic researcher Terence McKenna delivering a series of lectures to the accompaniment of Spacetime Continuum music.[3] Sharp's subsequent albums combined experimental electronic music with subtle jazz elements and elaborate rhythm structures. His work has had a clear influence on contemporary psybient artists, such as Shpongle and others.[citation needed]

Jonah Sharp has also released collaborations with Tetsu Inoue, Bill Laswell, Mixmaster Morris, Pete Namlook, David Moufang, and Plaid. He has remixed songs from Nine Inch Nails,[4] Meat Beat Manifesto, Ponga, Teknostep, Susumu Yokota, and Matt Herbert. He has produced songs for Ursula Rucker[5] and Paradise Boys.

  1. ^ a b Strauss, Neil (4 January 1995). "Critic's Notebook: Dance music for the immobile". New York Times.
  2. ^ Chonin, Neva (26 February 2002). "Club kids tell their stories at monthly Bored collective". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
  3. ^ Sterling, Bruce (6 February 2007). "RE/SEARCH, that unique, time-honored service from San Francisco's Bohemia". Wired. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
  4. ^ "Nine Inch Nails get worked over". MTV.com. 14 May 1997. Archived from the original on November 6, 2002. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
  5. ^ Keast, Darrin; Tim Pratt (3 January 2002). "Hangover Records". Miami New Times. Retrieved 23 January 2010.