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 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 Craig David.[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". 26 March 2019.
  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. 8 February 2019.
  14. ↑ "BMG Production Music Expands Portfolio with Dynamic Music Acquisition". 20 July 2020.
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