Sharooz

Sharooz Raoofi is an electronic music artist, producer and entrepreneur. His work has appeared on a variety of record labels such as Modular and Fool's Gold,.[1] Raoofi is the founder of electronic music ventures Sample Magic,[2] Audiaire, Attack Magazine and the Principle Pleasure recording studio in Los Angeles.[3]

He has remixed a range of artists including Moby, Robyn and Howard Jones.[4]

Sharooz has featured in numerous studio based articles, including Future Music magazine's cover,[5] FACT Magazine's In The Studio and T-Mobile's Electronic Beats video series.[6] Under various guises he has written works for motion pictures including the Palme d'Or nominated Rust and Bone[7] and the Netflix series Baby. Sharooz has worked as a sound designer on Roland's TR8-S drum machine, System-8 synthesiser, Steinberg's Cubase software,[8] Korg's Minilogue synthesiser, Microsampler, Gadget iPad app, Electribe and Kronos workstation, programming patches and loops.[9]

Raoofi was a co-founder of the Sounds to Sample website, which was acquired by US based music download company Beatport.[10]

In October 2017, Raoofi performed live for Red Bull Music Academy working on an improvised composition with several vintage synthesisers for a live Facebook stream.[11]

In October 2018, Billboard announced that New York based VC funded startup Splice had purchased Raoofi's Sample Magic venture for an undisclosed sum.[12]

In February 2019, the software synthesiser Zone, developed by Raoofi under the Audiaire brand was awarded Music Tech magazine's Choice Award.[13]

In July 2020, Variety reported that a publishing company founded by Raoofi had been acquired by music company BMG.[14]

References
  1. "Sharooz From UK :: I Voice Electronic Dance Music Magazine :: Charts, Biographies, Podcasts & Interviews". Ibiza-voice.com. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
  2. "Sample Magic Feature on Time & Space". Time&Space. Archived from the original on 15 December 2008. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
  3. "Miloco Studios in Los Angeles". Miloco.
  4. "Sharooz on Discogs". Discogs.
  5. Future Music Issue 214, 'Interview:Sharooz', June 2009, pp. 52–56
  6. "Principleasure Studio Video".
  7. "ZEROGcs – Soundclash". Zero-g.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
  8. "Steinberg VST Sound Loop Sets: Cubase And Sequel Loops And Samples". Gearwire. 17 June 2011. Archived from the original on 4 November 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
  9. "Sampling Keyboard | Sampler Keyboard | microSAMPLER". Korg.com. Archived from the original on 26 October 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
  10. "Beatport Acquires UK-Based 'Sounds/To/Sample' Musical Loop & Sample Download Service". Beatsmedia. 20 October 2010. Archived from the original on 26 January 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
  11. "Red Bull on Facebook". Facebook.
  12. "Splice Doubled Artist Payouts in Last Year, Launches Creator Initiative". Billboard.com. 17 October 2018.
  13. "Music Tech Magazine Review: Audiaire - Zone". Musictech.net.
  14. https://variety.com/2020/music/news/bmg-production-music-dynamic-music-1234710888/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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