Mark Barrott

Mark Barrott (born 1968) is an English DJ and record producer.

Early life and career Barrott was raised in Sheffield. His father was an old car restorer. The works of The Human League was another influence of Barrott's early synthesizer career. The works of A Guy Called Gerald and the label Warp were also inspirations of his recordings released under the moniker. He was the first drum and bass act to perform on BBC Radio 1. in October 1999 while touring throughout Europe and migrated to Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin to live with her. He felt that "my life had just begun" when moving to the city, and recalled that "It wasn’t like today, where every electronic music producer lives there and it’s become gentrified and safe." Barrott formed the International Feel label in 2009 to be creative with the music he was making. He began making balearic downtempo recordings. Electronic Beats, The Fader, Thump and Crack Magazine.

By July 2014, International Feel had sold more than 100,000 records.

Artistry Barrott uses very little equipment to create his music; he makes a challenge for himself to make "clever workarounds" with the limitations of the production utilities he works with: '"When I'm writing a song I'm trying to tell a story - it's a narrative - but the actual parts that make up the plotline have a very simple ethos now, i.e. don't overload people with information." Despite piano training from the first to the eighth grade, he said in 2014 that he has a small setup including a three-octave mini-keyboard. He also doesn't listen to a lot of music from other artists, saying that he would lose original ideas if he did.

Barrott stated in a March 2016 interview:

Discography

As Future Loop Foundation Karma/Remote Viewing Discovery/Shake the Ghost (1996) Time and Bass (1996) Sonic Drift/Voodoo Sound (1997) Conditions for Living (1998) Daddy Radical (1998) Jumper (1999) PHunkRoc (1999) The Middle of Nowhere (2000) Après Ski/Après Everything (2002) What's Your Name? (2002) This is How I Feel (2003) Scratch & Sniff (2004) One Offs & Remixes (2007) Memories from a Fading Room (2007) The Sea & Sky EP (2009) This Is Not An Ending (2016)

As Mark Barrott Sketches from an Island (2014) Sketches from an Island 2 (2016) Bush Society (2015) Nature Sounds of the Balearics (2018) Jōhatsu (2023)