# Jonah Sharp

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{{Short description|Scottish electronic musician}}
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'''Jonah Sharp''' (alias '''Spacetime Continuum''') is a [Scottish](/source/Scotland) [electronic](/source/electronic_music) musician and producer.<ref name="NYT">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/04/arts/critic-s-notebook-dance-music-for-the-immobile.html?pagewanted=1 |first=Neil |last=Strauss |date=4 January 1995 |title=Critic's Notebook: Dance music for the immobile |work=New York Times }}</ref> Sharp was born in [Edinburgh](/source/Edinburgh). After starting his musical career as a [jazz](/source/jazz) drummer in [London](/source/London), U.K., he moved to [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco), U.S.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Rave-salon-Club-kids-tell-their-stories-at-2869259.php |title=Club kids tell their stories at monthly Bored collective |first=Neva |last=Chonin |date=26 February 2002 |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=23 January 2010 }}</ref> During the 1990s Sharp released a series of albums on the [Astralwerks](/source/Astralwerks) record label. The first of these, entitled ''[Alien Dreamtime](/source/Alien_Dreamtime)'',<ref name="NYT"/> featured a live recording of [ethnobotanist](/source/ethnobotany), writer and [psychedelic](/source/Psychedelia) [researcher](/source/researcher) [Terence McKenna](/source/Terence_McKenna) delivering a series of lectures to the accompaniment of Spacetime Continuum music.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2007/02/research_that_u/ |publisher=Wired |first=Bruce |last=Sterling |title=RE/SEARCH, that unique, time-honored service from San Francisco's Bohemia |accessdate=23 January 2010 |date=6 February 2007}}</ref> Sharp's subsequent albums combined experimental electronic music with subtle jazz elements and elaborate [rhythm](/source/rhythm) structures. His work has had a clear influence on contemporary [psybient](/source/psybient) artists, such as [Shpongle](/source/Shpongle) and others.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

Jonah Sharp has also released collaborations with [Tetsu Inoue](/source/Tetsu_Inoue), [Bill Laswell](/source/Bill_Laswell), [Mixmaster Morris](/source/Mixmaster_Morris), [Pete Namlook](/source/Pete_Namlook), [David Moufang](/source/David_Moufang), and [Plaid](/source/Plaid_(band)). He has remixed songs from [Nine Inch Nails](/source/Nine_Inch_Nails),<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1432666/19970515/nine_inch_nails.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021106050350/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1432666/19970515/nine_inch_nails.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 6, 2002 |date=14 May 1997 |publisher=MTV.com |title=Nine Inch Nails get worked over |accessdate=23 January 2010 }}</ref> [Meat Beat Manifesto](/source/Meat_Beat_Manifesto), [Ponga](/source/Ponga_(band)), [Teknostep](/source/Teknostep), [Susumu Yokota](/source/Susumu_Yokota), and [Matt Herbert](/source/Matt_Herbert). He has produced songs for [Ursula Rucker](/source/Ursula_Rucker)<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 January 2002 |first=Darrin |last=Keast |author2=Tim Pratt |title=Hangover Records |url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2002-01-03/music/hangover-records/ |publisher=Miami New Times |accessdate=23 January 2010 }}</ref> and [Paradise Boys](/source/Paradise_Boys).

==Discography (as Spacetime Continuum)==
* ''Fluresence E.P.'' (1993)
* ''[Alien Dreamtime](/source/Alien_Dreamtime)'' (with [Terence McKenna](/source/Terence_McKenna)) (1993)
* ''[Sea Biscuit](/source/Sea_Biscuit_(Spacetime_Continuum_album))'' (1994)
* ''[Emit Ecaps](/source/Emit_Ecaps)'' (1996)
* ''[Remit Recaps](/source/Remit_Recaps)'' (remixes) (1996)
* ''[Real Time](/source/Real_Time_(EP))'' (1997)
* ''[Double Fine Zone](/source/Double_Fine_Zone)'' (1999)

==References==
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==External links==
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090409090736/http://www.reflectiverecords.com/artist_stc.html Biography on Reflective Records]''
* ''[http://www.myspace.com/jonahsharp Official MySpace page]''
* ''[http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jonah+Sharp Jonah Sharp releases at Discogs]''
* ''[http://www.discogs.com/artist/Spacetime+Continuum Spacetime Continuum releases at Discogs]''

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