DLT or Darryl Leigh Thomson, is a New Zealand hip hop DJ, music producer and composer as well as a visual artist.
DLT was inspired by an article about rap and break dancing in Life magazine when he was 16 years of age; he moved to Wellington in the early 1980s and established himself as a graffiti artist known as Slick (1983)[2] before co-founding hip hop group Upper Hutt Posse (UHP).
Upper Hutt Posse signed to Murray Cammick's label, Southside Records, and released the album Against the Flow in 1989.
It was number 22 in the 2001 APRA listing of the Greatest New Zealand Songs of the previous 75 years.
DLT's production work in the 1980s and 1990s was a pointer to and influential on the reggae-flavoured downbeat styles that have found favour in New Zealand in recent years.