Mark Barrott is an English Electronic and Balearic musician raised in Sheffield. He began playing synthesizers in groups in 1981, aged 13, motivated by watching a Sheffield City Hall live show of the band Kraftwerk He went under the stage name Future Loop Foundation, creating Ambient and Drum'n'Bass music or mixing both genres.
He relocated to Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin to live with his wife. Shortly after moving to Berlin, a hotel in Milan, Italy made a compilation CD that included one of Barrott's tracks, and invited any artist whose works were included on the compilation to perform at the hotel. A DJ friend of the hotel manager from a Hyatt hotel in Milan received a Barrott iPod containing his playlists. Barrott then gave his content to eight Sheraton hotels, before the Hyatt company employed Barrott as their music consultant. The next five years involved Barrott traveling to hotels across the world.
Barrott later moved to Punta Del Este, Uruguay and formed the International Feel label in 2009 but relocated to Ibiza in October 2012.