Jonah Sharp (alias Spacetime Continuum) is a producer, remixer, and DJ of
electronic music
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.
Sharp was born in
Edinburgh
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. After starting his musical career as a
jazz
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drummer in
London
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, U.K., he moved to
San Francisco
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, U.S. During the 1990s Sharp released a series of albums on the
Astralwerks
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record label. The first of these, entitled ''
Alien Dreamtime'',
featured a live recording of
ethnobotanist
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, writer and
psychedelic
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researcher
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Terence McKenna
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delivering a series of lectures to the accompaniment of Spacetime Continuum music. Sharp's subsequent albums combined experimental electronic music with subtle jazz elements and elaborate
rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek
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structures. His work has had a clear influence on contemporary
psybient artists, such as
Shpongle
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and others.
Jonah Sharp has also released collaborations with
Tetsu Inoue
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*, Japanese photographer
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*, Japanese musician
*, Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan ...
,
Bill Laswell
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,
Mixmaster Morris
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,
Pete Namlook
Pete Namlook (born 25 November 1960 as Peter Kuhlmann in Frankfurt, West Germany, died on 8 November 2012) was an ambient and electronic music producer and composer. In 1992, he founded the German record label FAX +49-69/450464, which he oversa ...
,
David Moufang
David Moufang (born 1966, in Heidelberg, West Germany) is a German ambient techno musician. He records with his partner, Jonas Grossmann as Deep Space Network project and his solo releases as Move D. Profileat Allmusic guide His other project ...
, and
Plaid
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. He has remixed songs from
Nine Inch Nails
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,
Meat Beat Manifesto
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,
Ponga,
Teknostep,
Susumu Yokota
Susumu Yokota (横田 進 ''Yokota Susumu'', or ススム・ヨコタ ''Susumu Yokota''; born 1960 or 1961 – March 27, 2015) was a Japanese composer. He released several albums under pseudonyms including Stevia, Ebi, and others.
Yokota worked ...
, and
Matt Herbert. He has produced songs for
Ursula Rucker
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Biography
Rucker was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she w ...
and
Paradise Boys.
Discography (as Spacetime Continuum)
* ''Fluresence E.P.'' (1993)
* ''
Alien Dreamtime'' (with
Terence McKenna
Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American ethnobotanist and mystic who advocated the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including ...
) (1993)
* ''
Sea Biscuit'' (1994)
* ''
Emit Ecaps'' (1996)
* ''
Remit Recaps'' (remixes) (1996)
* ''
Real Time'' (1997)
* ''
Double Fine Zone'' (1999)
References
External links
*
Biography on Reflective Records'
*
Official MySpace page'
*
Jonah Sharp releases at Discogs'
*
Spacetime Continuum releases at Discogs'
Astralwerks artists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American electronic musicians
Harvest Records artists
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