Future Loop Foundation

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

Barrott was raised in a "very insular city" "three hours north of London" that was encircled by seven hills. His father was an old car restorer who often traveled throughout the European continent in vintage vehicles. Despite this, Mark never traveled to foreign nations until he was signed to the label Planet Dog in 1996. 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 that was part of their Computer World tour. The works of The Human League was another influence of Barrott's early synthesizer career.

During his Planet Dog years, he went under the stage name Future Loop Foundation, creating Steve Reich and Brian Eno-influenced ambient drum and bass recordings and being booked at several European gigs. 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.

Barrott first met his Black Forest-born wife Sara in October 1999 while touring throughout Europe on an airplane and migrated to Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin to live with her. When he moved to Berlin, he had gotten tired of producing drum and bass tracks, reasoning that "the tempos were too restrictive in the end,” and began making more Kruder & Dorfmeister-influenced material when he migrated to the city. 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. It was exciting, it was dangerous. There was a sense that anything was possible." He was paid very little for his performances and gigs while in Berlin, garnering most of his cash from composing for British television. When interviewed by The Ransom Note in 2014, he said that he composed successful pop songs, but did not specify which such pop songs he composed.

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