Metropolis Group

Metropolis Group is a music production and entertainment industry company established in 1989 by Gary Langan, Carey Taylor and Karin Clayton. It is located in the Powerhouse, a Grade II listed building, at 70 Chiswick High Road in Chiswick, London, England. Over the last twenty years the group has expanded and now consists of three principal divisions: Metropolis Studios, Metropolis Mastering, and Digital Media/Productions.

Metropolis Group was bought out on 31 May 2013 by MLML (Metropolis London Music Limited) by Kainne Clements.

The Powerhouse was built in 1901 by a young architect William Curtis Green to power the trams of West London. This substantial building was conceived to be so large as to prevent any of the houses in the neighbourhood (which still tended to be large properties with influential owners) suffering from the vibration and dust caused by the steam powered generators. Due to competition from Lots Road power station in Chelsea, power was only generated until 1920 when the building was decommissioned and stripped of its equipment. Being mainly used as a storage facility, the Powerhouse gradually fell into disrepair.

London Transport (by then the owners) decided to redevelop the site. This led to an outcry and the Victorian Society campaigned for the protection of the building from the developers, which in turn led to the building being listed, one of the first Victorian buildings to be so nominated, and the first that was built in the 20th century. In 1989 after a large scale redevelopment, the building was converted into the home of Metropolis Group. The building’s great mass became a positive asset in isolating the studios from the vibration and dust caused by the surrounding neighbourhood.

Metropolis Studios was the first division to be established of Metropolis Group and is the backbone of the building. It consists of four recording and mixing studios and four production rooms and is the largest independent recording facility in Europe.

Studio A

Studio A is the larger of the two tracking rooms at Metropolis Studios. The 60-square-metre (650 sq ft) control room houses an SSL 9072 'J' series console with Genelec1035A main monitors. It is considered to be Metropolis’ ideal room for tracking or mixing. The studio area comprises three rooms with differing acoustic properties: a main area (90 square metres (970 sq ft)), a stone room (15 square metres (160 sq ft)) and a 'dead' room (15 square metres (160 sq ft)), each with ceilings close to 6 metres high and excellent lines of sight for musicians and engineers. All of these areas have natural daylight and can handle demanding tracking and orchestral sessions of up to 26 players. Studio A has a self-contained private lounge (with tie lines, kitchen and toilet) overlooking the live areas.

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