[1] When Barrott was thirteen years of age in 1981, he began playing synthesizers in groups, motivated by watching a Sheffield City Hall live show of the band Kraftwerk.
[2] Barrott went under the stage name Future Loop Foundation, creating ambient drum and bass recordings and being booked at several European gigs.
[3] Barrott met his Black Forest-born wife Sara[4][5] in October 1999 while touring throughout Europe and migrated to Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin to live with her.
[6] 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.
When the five-year rent of Barrott and his wife's Berlin home was near an end, the couple moved to Punta Del Este, Uruguay.
[6] His first studio album to be released under the Mark Barrott moniker, Sketches from an Island, is based on the quiet nature of Ibiza, using Leonardo da Vinci's technique of "Sophistication through simplicity" to represent this concept.