About
Electronic musician and founder of Reflective.
An Edinburgh, Scotland native, Sharp started his musical life as a drummer, playing with various art-school punk bands inspired by the super-8 film ethic of the likes of Cabaret Voltaire and early Human League. After briefly flirting with the late 80’s London acid jazz club scene as a session drummer (playing with Humble Souls), he soon realized the possibilities of a sampler and a drum machine as a solo performer. Excited by the sounds of Detroit techno, Chicago house and the electronic music that was coming from Europe, he started performing live and DJ'ing at parties in London in 1989 and decided that the chill-out room offered more potential for realizing what he was trying to communicate musically.
He left London for America in 1992, settling in San Francisco, where he established his Reflective label and recorded the bulk of his work to date, split over a number of different project headings (Emit Ecaps, Alien Community, Reagenz, Electro Harmonix and Strange Attractor). His most consistently visible work though has been as Spacetime Continuum, most of which was released by Astralwerks and Reflective.
He has performed live electronic music and DJ’d all over the world including a slot at the very first Detroit Electronic Music Festival in 2000 curated by Carl Craig and on Mount Fuji in 1999 in front of 18,000 people during an insane torrential rain storm. He has remixed the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Meat Beat Manifesto and Matthew Herbert and had his music in numerous films including Darren Aronofsky's 'Pi' (1998).
An Edinburgh, Scotland native, Sharp started his musical life as a drummer, playing with various art-school punk bands inspired by the super-8 film ethic of the likes of Cabaret Voltaire and early Human League. After briefly flirting with the late 80’s London acid jazz club scene as a session drummer (playing with Humble Souls), he soon realized the possibilities of a sampler and a drum machine as a solo performer. Excited by the sounds of Detroit techno, Chicago house and the electronic music that was coming from Europe, he started performing live and DJ'ing at parties in London in 1989 and decided that the chill-out room offered more potential for realizing what he was trying to communicate musically.
He left London for America in 1992, settling in San Francisco, where he established his Reflective label and recorded the bulk of his work to date, split over a number of different project headings (Emit Ecaps, Alien Community, Reagenz, Electro Harmonix and Strange Attractor). His most consistently visible work though has been as Spacetime Continuum, most of which was released by Astralwerks and Reflective.
He has performed live electronic music and DJ’d all over the world including a slot at the very first Detroit Electronic Music Festival in 2000 curated by Carl Craig and on Mount Fuji in 1999 in front of 18,000 people during an insane torrential rain storm. He has remixed the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Meat Beat Manifesto and Matthew Herbert and had his music in numerous films including Darren Aronofsky's 'Pi' (1998).
Groups
Discography
174 releasesElectro Harmonix
Tetsu Inoue & Jonah Sharp · 2012
Quiet Logic
Mixmaster Morris & Jonah Sharp · 1998
Instant Replay
Tetsu Inoue / Jonah Sharp · 1997
Wechselspannung 2
Pete Namlook, Jonah Sharp · 1995
Visitation
Jonah Sharp / Bill Laswell · 1994
Wechselspannung
Pete Namlook, Jonah Sharp
Trisha
Tranquil Elephantizer · 2019
Storm The Studio R.M.X.S.
Meat Beat Manifesto · 2016
Death Is King (Remixes)
Douglas J. McCarthy* · 2012
Kill Your Friends
Douglas J. McCarthy* · 2012
Vaporizer
JGarrett · 2011
The Day After
Gold Code · 2010
Triple Cherry
Foxgluv · 2006
Everyone Deserves Music
Michael Franti And Spearhead · 2003
Sounds Like Triphop Volume 1
Various · 1997
"The Perfect Drug" Versions
Nine Inch Nails · 1997
Fluresence E.P.
Spacetime Continuum · 2022
Oumuamua
MLO · 2021
I Don't Understand
The Loose Control Band · 2018
Ácido Ahora
The Loose Control Band · 2015
Lose Control
The Loose Control Band · 2014
Freefall EP
Strange Attractor · 2013
Modular Cowboy
Modular Cowboy · 2013
Superorganism
Mickey Hart Band · 2013
Global Drum Project
Mickey Hart & Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju, Giovanni Hidalgo · 2007
Reagenz
Reagenz · 2007
2 O Clock
Paradise Boys · 2006
The Young & The Guest List
Paradise Boys · 2004
Fueled For The Future Vol. 1-5
Various · 2003
Storm The Studio R.M.X.S.
Meat Beat Manifesto · 2003
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