Sharooz


Sharooz is a UK-based electronic music artist, producer and sound designer. His work has appeared on a variety of record labels such as Modular, Fool's Gold, and Record Makers. Sharooz is also a founder of various electronic music ventures including sound design company Audiaire, Sample Magic, Attack Magazine, record label La Bombe and the Principle Pleasure recording studio in Los Angeles.
He has remixed a range of artists including Moby, Robyn and Howard Jones.
Sharooz has featured in Future Music magazine four times, firstly in 2009 where he was filmed for a cover article,, in April 2014 for a 'Studio Tour' and most recently in March 2019. Under various guises he has written and produced works for motion picture such as the Palme d'Or nominated film Rust and Bone and the Netflix original series Baby. Sharooz has worked as a sound designer on Roland's TR8-S drum machine, System-8 synthesiser, Steinberg's Cubase software, Korg's Minilogue synthesiser, Microsampler, Gadget iPad app, Electribe and Kronos workstation, programming patches, banks and loops.
Sharooz has endorsed Roland's TR-08 drum machine, Focal monitors, Steinberg's Cubase, and Prism Sound's Orpheus interface.
Raoofi was a co-founder of the Sounds to Sample website, which was acquired by US based music download company Beatport.
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.
In October 2018, Billboard announced that New York based VC funded startup Splice had purchased Raoofi's Sample Magic venture for an undisclosed sum.
In February 2019, the software synthesiser Zone, developed by Raoofi under the Audiaire brand was awarded Music Tech magazine's Choice Award.