metro local
(Production libraries for film, television, and video games)
all songs are written, produced and masters owned by Jonathan King and David Hopper (ascap)

Contact metro local at : metrolocal@hotmail.com

Production music representing all electronic styles of music. House , Hip-Hop , R&B , Trance , Club , Breaks , Trip-Hop.

David Hopper is a pioneering DJ and artist who has established a reputation for serving up a potent blend of house and techno for over fourteen years. Besides maintaining a full DJing schedule at clubs, raves, special events, webcasts and radio stations, he regularly appears as a guest music reviewer for electronic music culture magazines.  Hopper has been producing original electronic music for the past ten years as a solo artist and signed his first recording deal with Blacc Label Records in 1998. In 2000 he set up an independent record label with some associates called Overeasy Records and began collaborating with long time friend and fellow DJ/producer Dave Panek under the “D&D Project” moniker. Gaining immediate success with their first release, entitled the “Sunday EP” and their second release “The Drums EP,” both on Overeasy, the D&D Project has gone on to produce over forty five mind-blowing tracks.  In 2002, Hopper began showing his true versatility by producing what has been described as funky, chunky, jazzy house under the alias “Catfish Boogie Nelson.” Hopper also began producing gritty techno that was instantly picked-up and placed on heavy rotation with Planet Dance and The Vortex on the Sirius Satellite Radio network and also featured on the Discovery Channel.  His original track “Bones” earned him a top 100 track of 2003 on both Sirius Satellite and Grooveradio.  Furthermore, in 2003, Hopper received an honorable mention in BPM Magazine's “Who is America's Favorite DJ?” and spent the month of August ‘03 on tour in Europe with MTV and was the featured DJ on MTV's “The Grind”. Moving forward, in 2004 he began to branch out and started producing original tracks with other artists under different alias's. Small projects like “Hollywood Highrollers” and “Brothers of Soul”  were born out of these collaberations. In the Spring of 2004 he was delighted to be given his own radio show called “Revolutions” on 87.9 FM Streets Radio out of Los Angeles while still devoting much of his time in the studio.     Much of 2005 and 2006 was spent with fellow producer Jonathan King setting up a new label called Bounce Royal and starting a new live band called Soul Provider and still finding enough time to do a few film scores.  Always on the cutting edge, Hopper has spun alongside many of electronic music's greatest artists, such as Paul Oakenfold, The Crystal Method, Christopher Lawrence, Bad Boy Bill, DJ Rap, George Acosta, Judge Jules, Robbie Rivera, and Frankie Bones just to name a few.

Jonathan King

Jonathan King brings over twenty years of experience in the live and recorded music industry. Performing in clubs and theaters from Orange County CA. to Tokyo Japan, Jonathan King has performed over 2,300 individual concerts, parties, and shows over the past twenty years. Starting at the age of five with the classical study of piano, Jonathan recognized early that his love for music would also signify his his calling to serve the public by fueling parties all over with his special brand of energetic music.
Influenced by the high energy funk artists of his youth, Jonathan formed his first band at the age of fourteen.While learning from the top producers in the industry, such as the legendary producer Leon Sylvers, (of " The Sylvers" and Shalimar" fame) and the Dust Brothers, (producers of  "Tone Loc" , "The Beastie Boys", "Young MC" and "Beck"), Jonathan developed an ear for what makes people dance.
Jonathan spent the early nineties writing and recording with the original vocal trio "King Size", while polishing his skills in the southern california clubs singing and playing "Old school funk". This period proved to be a key element in his growth as an artist. During that pivotal period Jonathan was also fortunate to be called upon by one of the top production teams in the industry (The Dust Brothers) to add his specific and unique sound to one of their most successful projects; (Beck "Where it's At").
In the summer of 2004, Jonathan began a collaberation with LA area house producer David Hopper, immediately striking a common vision as musical artists. Working together on various projects such as "Brothers of Soul" , "Soul Provider" and various house music projects lad to the inevitable formation of the production duo presented to you now as metro local. Bringing all his years of production in the hip-hop and R&B dance fields to combine with the talents of David Hopper in the styles of House, Club, and Breaks, Jonathan provides half of the chemistry it takes to create new, innovative sounds that continue to be true to the street, intelligent, and original.
Tracks that express colors, moods, energies, and time periods accurately, as well as the current sound and approach that makes projects stand out. An expressive keyboardist, Jonathan brings melodic expression to the forefront, even when it's in the background. Find out what many of todays top producers and directors already know.
The sound of tomorrow belongs to metro local.

metro local tracks by Genre

R&B / Hip-Hop / Trip-Hop
Laid (R&B / Hip Hop / Trip Hop) ..loungy groove, laid back moody with ambient strings big beat drums
Up on Top (R&B / Hip Hop / Trip Hop)...sinister synthy hip hop with moog bass , high synth melody and rhythmic synths
Truthfully (R&B / Hip Hop / Trip Hop)... emotional downtempo with rhodes chords and glistening strings over top, electric guitar rhythm
West Coast Tone (R&B / Hip Hop / Trip Hop)...happy, positive reggae , hip hop feel with vibes and rhythmic synths
Whiplash (R&B / Hip Hop / Trip Hop)...happy, romantic pop groove with string melody and electric piano melody, dirty synths
Bungalow (R&B / Hip Hop / Trip Hop)...moody, tension, action big beat groove with electric guitar and strings
Ain No Strippa (R&B / Hip Hop / Trip Hop)...moody, emotional pop groove, lush strings and disco guitar wah, melodic progression
Backtalk (R&B / Hip Hop / Trip Hop)...mysterious, tension mid tempo groove with hand claps, distorted synths and rhythmic airy percussion
Summer Coast (R&B / Hip Hop / Trip Hop)...mystrious spooky downtempo groove with synth melody, ambient synths bells, and moog melody
Corduroy (R&B / Hip Hop / Trip Hop)...positive, happy hip hop club groove with moog bass and soaring strings, electro drums and turntable scratching

Trance / Club / High Energy
Insider (trance / club / high energy)...triumphant, positive club groove with high frequency resonant synths, childlike playful synth melodies
High Tide (trance / club / high energy)...action, tension, building groove with rhythmic synths and strings
Superstar (trance / club / high energy)...moody, emotional club groove with strings and trance elements, electric piano and building drums
All Night (trance / club / high energy)...tension, action, with strings and ambient synth melodies
Blinder (trance / club / high energy or house)...action, tension, club groove with rhythmic distorted synths and building synth melodies
Tracky Back (trance / club / high energy or house)..determined, positive synthy groove with electric guitars and ambient synth effects
Night Rider (trance / club / high energy)...action, intense club groove with rhythmic synth and circular synth melody
Full Force (trance / club / high energy or house)...action, tension, intense uptempo track with building rhythmic synths and industrial effects
Wrap Her In Caramel (trance / club / high energy)... mysterious, tension, action, uptempo with dirty synth bass, melodic rhodes, mysterious bell piano
Butterscotch Booty Affair (trance / club / high energy or house)...moody, emotional action club feel with melodic synths, strings , coarse synth melody
Eraser (trance / club / high energy)... tense, intense chase action track with loopy bass line building into frantic synth and drum crescendo
Inflate Or Die (trance / club / high energy)...action,  tension, energy, club bass track building into synth rhythms layered over strings holding a tense one note theme

House
Deepest Two (house)...moody and etheral with strings, jazzy electric bass and high rhythmic bells
Back Door (house)..triumphant, happy and positive, with disco guitars, rhythm synths, frequency morphing, big strings and horns
Hot Like (house) ...positive, mysterious, ambient with rhodes rhythm, electric bass and ambient synth effects
Misted (house)...mysterious ambient groove with strings, distorted rhythm synths and percussion
Cherry Whipp Cream (house)...tension, action, uptempo groove with rhythmic synths and tension building synth melody
Metrofunk (house)...tension, action uptempo synth driven groove with moog bass and clavinet rhythm, synth
Savawee (house)...positive, happy uptempo with rhodes piano rhythm. mysterious string melody and female vocal stabs
Back On Tracky (house)...action, tension, uptempo groove with moog bass, electric guitar and mysterious synth melody
Surreal Zone (house)...tension, mystrious, uptempo building groove with sax, electric guitar and airy strings
Fade Away (house)...action, tension, uptempo groove with electric guitar rhythm, ambient string break, electric bass
Latina (house)...action, positive uptempo groove with acoustic piano, female vocal stab, strings
Right On (house)...action, tension, intense mid tempo groove with guitar rhythms, electric bass
Runway (house)...positive, energetic, mysterious uptempo club groove with vibes, fashion show vocal, and synth melody
Stretch (house)...mysterious uptempo action with stadium organ, string, building melody, mysterious bell piano
Paper Lantern (house)...triumphant, positive, happy uptempo groove with piano, bells, strings, ambient atmosphere
Corduroy Pants (house)...mysterious, tense uptempo with melodic church bell melody, moog bass, driving drum groover and ambient strings and synths
Back For The Groove (house) ..mysterious, atmospheric, mid-tempo house with flutes, piano rhythm and linear strings, atmosphere effects and acoustic guitar
Bomb 2 Min Bang (house) ... action, intense, driving house groove with dirty bass line, circular harps and electric guitar bed crescendo into wah guitar rhythm
By The Fire (house) ... sneaky, tension building house tracks with synth 303 rhythm line and filtered strings and atmospheres leading into a sweet solo synth theme layered with soaring strings
I Like It Mami (house)...happy, latin flavored track with Traditional Mexican trumpet line leading into a triumphant string line with a dramatic character theme
No Funk Fakin (house)...action, intense, driving house groove with syncopated organ rhythm and strings and orchestral hits in an eastern melodic theme
Pass The Funk (house)...positive, up-tempo house built around rhythmic filtered Clavinet and rhodes piano with electric bass
Sandsurfer (house)...mysterious, tension building eastern theme with synth and string rhythm building into bongos and vocal stabs that lead into a soaring eastern string line

 

Breaks
Right Turn (breaks)...tension, action, groove with big beat drums, ambient mysterious synths and rhythmic dirty synths strings
Roll one (breaks)...action, big beat groove with electric bass, rhodes piano and saxophone, ambient synth effects
Heavy Cotton (breaks)...action, positive big beat with distorted grungy guitar and rhythmic delayed synth
Take it (breaks)...action, tension, with synth bass, ambient strings, tense rhodes chords, drum break