Athea may be a new beginning for James Dutton, but his dance music roots run deep. Half man, half motherboard since he learned to weave a wire as a bairn, Athea speaks the language of technology and bends it to his musical whim. His course was set when he first experienced Cream in its Liverpool home at the tender age of 17. It was in the north of the UK where he laid his first foundations in the industry, from teen years spent loitering in Global Grooves record shop of his home town Chester, to raving with Lawler, Morillo and Tong at Cream and Circus in Liverpool, or Back to Basics in Leeds.