MARK BARROTT - SKETCHES FROM AN ISLAND #1 - 4 MAY 2015

My name is Mark Barrott. I run International Feel Recordings and live in Ibiza.
‘Sketches from an Island’ takes it’s influences from the music that came together to form early Balearic Chillout music. When Jose Padilla started selling tapes in Las Dalias (the Hippy Market near San Carlos), even before he started DJ’ing at the Cafe Del Mar, certain styles of music existed in isolation (Eno, Vollenweider, Compass Point, Steve Reich, Tangerine Dream, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, New Age, World Music etc.) and Jose contextualised all these styles through his tapes and Sunset DJ Sets into the music now known as Chillout. ‘Sketches’ takes it’s references from all these varied musical forms and aims to contextualise it’s own version of what I think Balearic sounds like.
Every Monday I’ll be hosting the Sketches From An Island radio show on Ibiza Sonica from 13:00 – 14:00 CET! You can either catch it live on the Sonica Website or catch up every Tuesday on Mixcloud & Soundcloud.