Jonah Sharp

{{Short description|Scottish electronic musician}} {{Redirect|Spacetime Continuum|the space-time continuum|Spacetime}} '''Jonah Sharp''' (alias '''Spacetime Continuum''') is a Scottish electronic 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. After starting his musical career as a jazz drummer in London, U.K., he moved to 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 record label. The first of these, entitled ''Alien Dreamtime'',<ref name="NYT"/> featured a live recording of ethnobotanist, writer and psychedelic researcher 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 structures. His work has had a clear influence on contemporary psybient artists, such as Shpongle and others.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

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,<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, Ponga, Teknostep, Susumu Yokota, and Matt Herbert. He has produced songs for 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.

==Discography (as Spacetime Continuum)== * ''Fluresence E.P.'' (1993) * ''Alien Dreamtime'' (with Terence McKenna) (1993) * ''Sea Biscuit'' (1994) * ''Emit Ecaps'' (1996) * ''Remit Recaps'' (remixes) (1996) * ''Real Time'' (1997) * ''Double Fine Zone'' (1999)

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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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