02. XTA SEE (03:38)
03. UNAFFECTED (03:22)
04. INFRA BREAKER (04:06)
05. YOU CAN’T MISS ONCE (03:22)
The EP opens with ‘Higher Function’, with smudged UKG mutations at the front and heavy subs, moving to nitrous fuelled 4/4 emotional moments on ‘Xta See’, shattered but sharply effective club 2-step on ‘Unaffected’, 303 tear outs on ‘Infra Breaker’ and the grand-finale burned-out ‘You Can’t Miss Once’ after an adrenaline-fuelled heavy duty score. Alarm systems are timed, the trackers on the vehicles are in place, we know at what time the package arrives and when it’s supposed to leave the facility.
High-octane drums, spine-freezing
synth lines, rude bass ballasts are the primary elements emerging from the new
EP ‘Phantom Grade’, out later this year on Friends of Friends, in which Norf
Tech conjures an universe made of all-black street-spec cars escaping on the
highway northbound, surgically executed heists and cinematic grand finales –
standing on the beach at dusk, looking at the sea, reflecting on his past, but
never taking the foot off the throttle, always on the hunt, never idle.