Sharooz

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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, Fool's Gold,[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 been based since 2005.

Since his debut release in 2006, he has remixed a wide range of artists including Moby, Robyn 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 such as the Palm D'Or nominated film Rust and Bone 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 VST Sound Loop Sets,[10] Korg's Microsampler and Kronos workstation, 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 his business partner David Felton sold Sounds to Sample to US based music download company Beatport[17]

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References

  1. ↑ "Sharooz From UK :: I Voice Electronic Dance Music Magazine :: Charts, Biographies, Podcasts & Interviews". Ibiza-voice.com. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
  2. ↑ "Sharooz :: Artists Wiki". Beatportal. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
  3. ↑ Future Music Issue 214, ‘Interview:Sharooz’, June 2009, pp. 52–56
  4. ↑ "Future Music Issue 235 On Sale Now | Future Music". MusicRadar.com. 11 January 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
  5. ↑ "ZEROGcs – Soundclash". Zero-g.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
  6. ↑ "Sharooz Discography at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
  7. ↑ "News". Artofspectra.com. 20 December 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
  8. ↑
  9. ↑ "Propellerhead – Reason – Sounds of Reason". Propellerheads.se. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
  10. ↑ "Steinberg VST Sound Loop Sets: Cubase And Sequel Loops And Samples". Gearwire. 17 June 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
  11. ↑ "Sampling Keyboard | Sampler Keyboard | microSAMPLER". Korg.com. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
  12. ↑ "Roster of Artists : | http". //www.steinberg.net/. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
  13. ↑ Hughes, Rob. "Sharooz invests in Prism Sound | Pro Audio industry news". Audio Pro International. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
  14. ↑ "Sony Creative Software News :: November 2009". Sonycreativesoftware.com. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
  15. ↑ "Community". FXpansion. 1 June 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
  16. ↑ FXpansion 'Geist' operation manual pg 5, November 2010
  17. ↑ "Beatport Acquires UK-Based ‘Sounds/To/Sample’ Musical Loop & Sample Download Service". Beatsmedia. 20 October 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
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