Sharooz Raoofi is an electronic music artist, producer and entrepreneur. His work has appeared on a variety of record labels such as

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and

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,. Raoofi is the founder of ventures Sample Magic, Audiaire, Attack Magazine and the Principle Pleasure recording studio in Los Angeles. He has remixed a range of artists including

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and Craig David. Sharooz has featured in numerous studio based articles, including

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magazine's cover, FACT Magazine's In The Studio and T-Mobile's

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video series. Under various guises he has written works for motion pictures including the Palme d'Or nominated

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and the Netflix series

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. Sharooz has worked as a sound designer on Roland's TR8-S drum machine, System-8 synthesiser, Steinberg's

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software, Korg's Minilogue synthesiser, Microsampler, Gadget iPad app, Electribe and Kronos workstation, programming patches and loops. Raoofi was a co-founder of the Sounds to Sample website, which was acquired by US based music download company

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. In October 2017, Raoofi performed live for

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working on an improvised composition with several vintage synthesisers for a live Facebook stream. In October 2018, ''

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'' 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. In July 2020,

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reported that a publishing company founded by Raoofi had been acquired by music company

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