Mick's Nuts by Vulture Street Tape Gang

For Vulture Street Tape Gang, making actual mixtapes, or beat-tapes as they prefer it, is the founding premise, the vital aesthetic constraint that shapes the projects’ sound and performance practice. To them a beat tape is a selection of moments from their improvisations which they collect and compile, the treasure from a quest into the musical unknown. Their first recordings were made onto tape, and released in the streets and at their shows for spare change.
This year the VSTG have commenced a three volume set of 60 minute sonic collages, the Vulture Street Beat Tape series, which will form a homage to three pseudo-iconic locations along the well known strip in Brisbane’s once freak/outsider/party inner city suburb, West End. Now admidst the inevitable process of it’s gentrification, the places represent the suburb that the native artists/hippys/stoners know and used to walk by everyday when they could afford to
live there.
{What better way they think to pay homage to a dying suburb than on a dead medium?}
This third and final volume 'Mick's Nuts' take's it's name and design from the overflowing hole-in-the-wall Mick’s Nuts, which has sat on the corner of Hargrave Rd long before the conception of the well-branded health food store.
{The cool (in conceptual sense) thing about a physical cassette is the way it lends itself only to linear, whole enjoyment. At the end of the 30 minutes a side, you flip the tape and the journey continues or you press stop and the tape can do nothing but wait at the exact point you left it. Plus when technology fails you, as it inevitably will and your digital library is lost into the void, your cassette (which you never played because who’s even seen a tape deck??)will sit on your shelf quietly pleased at the fact that it holds the only record of the weird music that used to be around when you were younger. }
That said, the Vulture Street Beat Tape collection will enjoy a digital release too. Allowing the listener not only the ability to actually listen to the tape, but the freedom to single out their favourite beats, skip others, and reorder or shuffle the beats to remap the sequence to their own liking.

Synth-lord Mike Medleycott, drum-lord Myka Wallace and the vocal and instrumental talents of one Lachlan James Mitchell.

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