Patrick Topping's Love Me EP Lands on Metamorfosi With Peak-Time Intent

Patrick Topping Steps Outside His Label — And Into Metamorfosi's World

Patrick Topping has built his reputation through Hot Creations, the imprint he co-runs with Jamie Jones that has defined a particular flavour of body-moving, swing-heavy house for well over a decade. So when the Newcastle-born producer surfaces on someone else's label — specifically Metamorfosi, the imprint helmed by Italian techno architect Joseph Capriati — it signals something deliberate. The Love Me EP, out April 24, is a two-tracker that plays comfortably in Topping's wheelhouse while nodding firmly toward Metamorfosi's harder, more relentless aesthetic. It's a meeting of worlds that makes sense on the dancefloor long before you think about it analytically.

Title Track 'Love Me': Disco Pressure Through a Tech House Lens

The title track opens with bright, almost tropical synth figures — the kind of chiming upper-register chord work that immediately evokes late-nights and rising sun — before a pounding bassline and punchy kick drum pull the track decisively into peak-time territory. Topping pairs a female vocal hook with a deceptively simple arrangement that opens up across the mix, revealing layers of stacked percussion and a low-end wobble that the system does most of the talking for. The disco influence isn't cosmetic here. It's baked into the chord changes and the way the vocal phrase resolves — you're getting euphoria by design, not by accident.

What makes 'Love Me' sit well in a Metamorfosi context is its discipline. Topping doesn't oversell the moment. The build is patient, the drop controlled. For a record aimed at festival and peak-time slots, it keeps considerably more restraint than the genre's more bombastic examples — which is exactly where Capriati's label tends to operate.

'Here We Go': The B-Side That Does the Heavier Lifting

The second track, 'Here We Go', is the sharper, less forgiving side of the release. Punchier drums, a grinding bassline that stays low and purposeful, and rap vocal fragments that cut through the mix rather than floating over it — this is the record for the deeper hours, after the crowd has thinned to the people who aren't leaving. The arrangement drives hard across its runtime without needing the melodic scaffolding of the title track. It's a solid, functional club weapon, and the contrast with 'Love Me' makes it feel like an intentional sequencing choice rather than a leftover.

B-sides on Topping releases have always been worth attention — he treats them as complete ideas, not as supporting material — and 'Here We Go' maintains that standard.

What Metamorfosi Brings to This Release

Capriati's Metamorfosi has steadily built a catalogue that bridges the hard end of tech house with the rhythmic intensity of techno. Its roster draws from Italy's underground, but the label has consistently reached outward — across genres, nationalities, production styles. Topping debuting here isn't a left-turn so much as a logical landing: a producer whose peak-time sensibility aligns with the label's weight, even if his primary sound leans warmer and more disco-inflected than Metamorfosi's typical catalogue entry.

It also reflects a broader pattern of UK artists testing Italian imprints for specific tracks or EPs. The Italian underground and the British house scenes share a reverence for swing, groove, and dancefloor functionality over spectacle — they just arrive at it from different historical angles.

Where the EP Fits in Topping's 2026

Topping has been one of the more consistent presences in the global touring circuit through 2025 and into 2026, maintaining a schedule that spans Ibiza residencies, major festivals, and underground club dates. The Love Me EP reflects a producer who knows exactly what a DJ wants from a record at a given moment in a set — because he's the DJ playing those records. Both tracks are functional first and expressive second, which isn't a criticism; it's the standard by which this kind of release should be measured.

The Metamorfosi debut is a clean, confident addition to Topping's discography. It won't reshape his catalogue, but as a two-tracker built for the big room with enough craft to reward close listening, it delivers exactly what it promises.