Sharooz (born Sharooz Raoofi) is a UK based electronic music artist, DJ and producer. His work has appeared on a variety of record labels such as Ministry of Sound, Record Makers,[1] and Sunday Best. After a brief spell as a product manager at Warner Music, he established a recording studio in London where he has worked since 2005.
Since his debut release in 2006, he has remixed a wide range of artists from David E.Sugar and Dave Audé to more mainstream acts including Moby, Craig David and Howard Jones. His biggest selling tracks are 'Hell Yeah' and 'Get Off' which have been aired on BBC Radio 1 and Galaxy FM, picking up plays by DJs such as David Guetta, Moby, 2 Many Djs and Pete Tong.[2] As a DJ he has toured extensively, appearing in the USA, Australia, Holland, Russia, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, France, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Serbia.
Sharooz has featured on the cover of Future Music magazine twice, firstly in May 2009 where he was filmed for their cover disc tutorial and interviewed about the technical aspects of music production,[3] secondly in January 2011 as part of the magazine's 'Producer Special'[4]. Under various guises he has written and produced works for motion picture and television commercials via a publishing agreement with EMI Music Publishing.[5] Working alongside Dave Audé he has played keyboards on remixes of artists such as The Pussycat Dolls.[6] Sharooz has also composed the soundtrack for a performance by the Gothenburg contemporary dance company Art of Spectra, choreographed by Peter Svenzon.[7] In June 2010 he worked with Mylo on a remix for Robyn on her own Konichiwa Records label.[8] Sharooz has worked extensively as a sound designer, on Propellerhead's Reason 5 software, where he composed a demo song and programmed Kong device patches,[9] on Steinberg's EDM VST Sound Loop Sets,[10] and Korg's Microsampler keyboard, programming patches, banks and loops.[11]
Sharooz has endorsed Focal Twin 6 BE monitors, Steinberg's Cubase DAW,[12] Prism Sound's Orpheus audio interface,[13] Sony's Acid software[14] and FXpansion plugins,[15] having designed patches for their Geist plugin.[16]
Sharooz is also co-founder of the Sounds to Sample website, sound design company Sample Magic and record label La Bombe.
In October 2010, Raoofi and has business partner David Felton sold Sounds to Sample to US based music download company Beatport[17]