Award Winning Music Producer and former Champion Turntablist
DJ turned Film/TV composer
Cardiff born Lloyd Morgan aka DJ Keltech grew up in the 80's
listening to Hip Hop and electronic music and watching
horror films.
He started making music and DJing in the mid 90's
releasing drum&bass and Hip Hop on various independent
record labels around the world.
Music Discography
A photo of his studio in 1997 producing Drum&Bass
& Hip Hop
using an Emu esi 32 sampler with 4mb of memory
Dispite having numerous tracks out on vinyl which at the
time was the only playable music medium in the clubs,he
found the d&b scene incredibily difficult to break into but
where one door shuts another opens.
At this time he was also making Hip Hop instruments for
a friend and local rapper Johnny B who he grew up with on the
same housing estate.
Local promotors Higher Learning who were at the heart of
welsh Hip Hop scene and were booking acts for their nights,
Johnny asked if Keltech wanted to DJ for him seen as he had
produced some of the tracks her was rapping over, plus they
had done some small gigs in the past together as teenagers.
It wasn't long before they were established on the local
Welsh Hip Hop scene and playing regular gigs.
In 2002 they won the Best Live Hip Hop
act at the Welsh Music Awards along with some other awards,
including Best DJ and music Producer
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With most of Keltech's skills in
mixing he started to brush up on his scratching skills
spending hours each day practicing and creating scratch
routines.
After a few years he decided to enter the Technics
World DMC DJ championships competing against the worlds
best scratch DJs. He had been watching this competition
since 1987 on vhs tapes when the likes of of UK legend DJ Cutmaster
Swift used to perform.
In May 2003 he first entered the competition at the Cardiff regional heats
but failed to make it past qualifying stage. Not
deterred his last
chance that same year was to enter the Glasgow heats, a week
later he drove 8 hours to Scotland where he made it through
to the regional final (photographed below).
Over the next few years he went onto compete in 6 regional finals
and a national competion which he won.
Glasgow 2003, DJ Keltech performing with judge Cutmaster
Swift watching from below
Glasgow 2003 Regional Finalist
Manchester 2004 Regional Finalist
Cardiff 2004 regional final 3rd Place winner
Bath 2005 regional final 3rd Place winner
Cardiff 2005 regional final 2nd Place winner
in
2005 he won the Welsh Higher Learning DJ Battle
coming 1st
place
One
of his DJ routines that he played in the Bath regional
finals was using the music from The Empire Strikes Back film
which went down a storm in the club. Later that week he
decided he was going to video the routine so to take it up a
notch he bought a cheap Darth Vader costume off ebay and video'd
himself remixing the
Imperial March music by John Williams (video
here).
This was at a time before youtube was about so the video
went onto his own website. Shortly after uploading the
video it started to be shared via email and sent around via mobile
phones. The video was getting thousands of hits. A company
in the US called stupidvideos.com who were the tiktok of
their time asked if they could upload the video and feature
it. The video soon went viral all over the world
getting millions of hits. The success of
the video soon reached the press, the video was shown live
at Comic Con in LA on a massive screen, it was featured on the
first page of yahoo.com, even starwars.com asked if they
could interview him for the website (screenshot
here)
Not only did he get a load of official merchandise sent to
him off Lucas Arts he received a signed Christmas card from George
Lucas himself!
To this day years on he still gets comments that video influenced
people to start DJing.
It was pretty hard to top that a video and just so happened
that Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds movie had just come out
in 2005.
Being a fan of the old musical and being a fan of the Eve of
the war track he decided to do a remix this time dressing up
as an alien. it was shot in his bedroom with a green screen
using a video loop background lifted from the War of the
Worlds official website with some practical props infront of
the turntables so it looked like a crash site.
The video was instantly popular, he was then contacted by
the War of the world's composer Jeff Waynes manager asking
if he could do an official remix of the track with got
released on Sony records.
a Discography of his releases is at the bottom of this page
 
Those two video opened up a lot
of doors, he was booked at celebrity parties one of which
was to launch the new Top Trumps mobile phone game in
Trafalgar Square London where he performed his routine in
front of Sir Bobby Robson
He also performed live on a
Belgian mainstream TV show called "Ca Alors"
dressed as Darth Vader you can watch it
here
Supporting ICE T on the Welsh leg of his tour
As
side from the DJing Keltech was hard at work in his bedroom
studio working on new Hip Hop Instruments for the Keltech
and Johhny B album 'The Name' and his scratch album 'Strike
Back'
Both albums were sucessful with a bit of luck getting
distribution they got into major supermarket shelves
for the first time, which was pretty ground breaking for
Welsh Hip Hop.
Many of the instrumental tracks and other hiphop beats
Keltech had produced were now getting demand to be used on
TV shows especially MTV
His
music has been featured on many shows.
This
was the start of his first glimpse into the world of music for TV and
licensing
he started to write music specifically for TV and film use
with publishers around the world.
With a love for dark orchestral film scores in 2020 he took
up playing the cello after being inspired by the film score
Joker composed by Icelanic cellist Hildur Guonadottir. He worked his way up
playing in various different level orchestra's till he was playing for
Newport Symphony Orchestra. Being a big fan of film music he
often goes to watch orchestras play John Williams and Hans
Zimmer film scores.
He now works with film directors writing custom music for
Horror and Thriller films
see here
Music Discography
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