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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]
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