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.
[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.