Sahar Z (born Sahar ZangilevitchBarreiro, Diego.

. ''Moochila'', 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2021) is an Israeli music producer and

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. Retrieved 9 January 2021 He is closely associated with the Lost & Found label, an imprint of

John Digweed Thomas John Digweed (born 1 January 1967) is a British DJ and record producer. ''DJ Magazine'' voted him World No 1 DJ in 2001. As well as achieving success as a solo act, he has collaborated with Sasha as Sasha & John Digweed, and with Nick M ...

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. In 2014 he released the album ''Time'' along with fellow producer

Guy Mantzur Guy Mantzur is an Israeli music producer based in Tel Aviv. He established his own record label, Plattenbank, in 2009. He released his first album, ''Moments'', in 2013, and followed up the following year with ''Time'' with Sahar Z. The latter alb ...

. Until 2020, he frequently toured internationally. Sahar is an owner and resident DJ at the largest and most popular underground club in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

, The Cat & Dog.

Career

He cites

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Giorgio Moroder Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (, ; born 26 April 1940) is an Italian composer, songwriter, and record producer. Dubbed the " Father of Disco", Moroder is credited with pioneering euro disco and electronic dance music. His work with synthesizers had ...

Art of Noise Art of Noise (also The Art of Noise) were an English avant-garde synth-pop group formed in early 1983 by engineer/producer Gary Langan and programmer J. J. Jeczalik, along with keyboardist/arranger Anne Dudley, producer Trevor Horn, and mu ...

and

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as early influences, and says that in recent years he typically discovers new music via

Beatport Beatport is an American electronic music-oriented online music store owned by LiveStyle. The company is based in Denver, Los Angeles, and Berlin. Beatport is oriented primarily towards DJs, selling full songs as well as resources that can be us ...

and

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. Following his discharge from

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, Sahar began DJing in 1996 at

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in Israel. Sahar's many collaborations have included recordings with fellow Israeli DJs and producers

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and Chico Shuella. His 2020 album with Mantzur, "Time", was described by ''Decoded magazine'' as "distinctly mind blowing on all levels of melodic music". In 2020, his remix of Creative Culture's "Remember the Future" was listed as number 8 in ''Magnetic Magazine''s "15 Best Progressive House Tracks Of April 2020". Along with Guy J, Sahar founded the Armadillo Records record label in 2017, which specialises in releasing "downtempo music and experimental lectronicmusic". As of January 2021, a second album, to be released with Vic F under the alias of "The Scientists", is in production and planned for release. Sahar is married and has children.

Equipment

When recording he has said that "for melodies,

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, chords & basslines I use the Roland Juno6, Nordlead4, Deepmind12, Model D, Virus and more, and for the creation of groove elements I use

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by NI". He believes that, overall, advances in digital recording and the reduction in hardware prices has led to a glut of lower quality electronic music. In 2020 he observed how "in this digital age to open a record label doesn’t require a large financial investment any more, you can release tracks with costs that are minimal. Technology today allows anyone to be able to mix, take these two things and put them together, that’s the reason for that amount of non-quality Dj’s and non-quality music flooding the market."

Discography

Albums

*''Time'' (with

), 2014. Lost & Found recordsFrench, Ian.
Guy Mantzur and Sahar Z release Time
. ''Decoded Magazine'', 11 November 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2021

Singles & EPs

The following is an incomplete list: *"Mixed Feelings / Zikaron", 2020. Lost and Found *"Guts Over Fear" (with Vic F), 2019. EDGE records *"Dreamless Sleep", 2018. PAF053 *""Ollie" (with Vic F), 2018. Anjunadeep records *"Smoothy Moody/They Made Me Do It" (with Chicola), 2014. Lost & Found *"Sneaky Monkey", 2009. Definitive *"Hazui" (with

), 2006. Fabric recordsGuy J & Sahar Z: Hazui
. AllMusic. Retrieved 7 January 2021

References

External links

Official Twitter2014 video interview with Sahar Z, Guy J and Guy MantzurSahar Z & Vic F: "Ollie"
{{Authority control Electronic dance music DJs Israeli DJs Progressive house musicians Remixers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people