After Oxford, he moved to London, where he began acting as a disc jockey at nightclubs such as Fabric where he started in the upstairs bar, and composing music.

He set up the label Skinny Malinky, which produced records under various aliases included Big C, Mother's Pride, Vadis, Beat Foundation, Fatback Boogaloo and Qattara (with Alex Whitcombe).

In 2013, using the proceeds of selling the rights to his Groove Armada songs,[6] they acquired a 100-hectare farm, where they now grow organic no-till crops and raise livestock in pasture.

Cato is now a full-time farmer, but he still finds time to DJ, with occasional gigs in the UK and Ibiza and regular DIY releases.

[7] Cato appears alongside his Wildfarmed business partner George Lamb in series 3 of Clarkson's Farm.