Live recorded renditions from Sin E, Dublin, as part of State's new series of features focusing on open mic singer songwriters.

Hard Days Hat - Moment Of Truth

Hunger

Ilenkus - Hunny Bunny

Pale Rivers - August 6th

A Fine Summer At Last is the rather optimistic-sounding title of my fourth summer mixtape for State.  It is, of course, a riff on one of the song titles on the mixtape, ‘A Fine Day At Last’ by Galway-based A Lilac Decline.  It was only after I assembled the selection that I noticed that it begins with the exact same field recording as the last one.  I had forgotten I used it before. Mea culpa.   

About half the tracks featured on it are of a recent vintage, the other half hail from other eras.  Summers of my teenage years are evoked by the inclusion of a scatter of 4AD classics.  Once more, I think that this selection might make most sense on a late night midsummer’s car journey.  

Cian Ó Cíobháin

A FINE SUMMER AT LAST tracklist
01. Linda Perhacs – Morning Colors
02. The Avalanches – Colours
03. The Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band – Flowers Never Cry
04. R. Stevie Moore – Here Comes Summer Again
05. Beach Boys – Wouldn’t It Be Nice? (acapella)
06. Langley Schools Music Project – I’m Into Something Good
07. Jai Paul – Str8 Outta Mumbai
08. JeanGa & George – Sunscreen
09. Four Tet – Angel Echoes
10. Chiwoniso – Zvichapera
11. Toumani & Sidiki Diabaté – Rachid Ouiguini
12. Lush – For Love
13. Pixies – Ana
14. Beautify Junkyards – Piramide
15. Mica Levi – Children
16. Chaouche – I’ll Lose My Head
17. Susumu Yokota – Kodomotachi
18. Sky H1 – I Think I Am
19. Cocteau Twins – I Wear Your Ring
20. Vessels – Echo In
21. Guilt Trips – Sun
22. A Lilac Decline – A Fine Day At Last
23. Yves Tumor – The Feeling When You Walk Away
24. Primal Scream – Shine Like Stars

An Taobh Tuathail can be heard between 22.00-00.00 Luan – Aoine / Monday – Friday and both live and past shows can be heard through the RTÉ player and RTÉ Radio app as well as on the old reliable FM radio receiver on 93-95 MHz.

A Fine Summer At Last

The latest State Mix comes via Warriors of The Dystotheque, the brain child of Jonny Mac from Ireland who this last 15 years has regularly DJ’d across the globe alongside Phil Hartnoll form Orbital and Leeroy from the Prodigy, Happy Mondays, and many others.

Warriors of the Dystotheque grew from a love of lo-fi music and electronic culture between artists spread across Ireland France and New York. Style has no limit, these guys take in elements from 60’s garage, broken beat, jazz, downtempo, techno, electronica, noise, psyche, breakbeat and pretty much anything that opposes the mainstream beige cliches of modern music.

WotD are composed of DJ / Producer / Engineers/ Musicians Jonny Mac, Derry / Ireland  Sean Graham, Coventry / UK & Toulon / France  & The Brothers Nylon Mike and Nick Rufolo NYC / USA and have never spent time in the same country let alone the same studio when working on their music yet have released four EP's over the past two years all of which have had major support across BBC Radio on 6 Music with many plays on the following shows,Nemone's Electric Ladyland, Lauren Laverne, Huey Morgan & Shaun Keaveny more support has come on BBC Radio 1 from Phil Taggart on several occasions also back in N.Ireland from Across The Line & Derry's Stephen McCauley on his Electric Mainline show, Not forgetting Dan Hegarty on RTE 2 and many many more.

Tracklist
1. The Neville Brothers - Son & Daughters - La Decadense Edit

2. Duncan Gray - Disappear - Andrew Weatherall Mix 

3. PJ Harvey - Down By The River - La Decadense Edit

4. Toydrum - Know One Will Ever Know - Richard Norris Mix

5. Orbital - Impact - Ghettface Edit 

6. Warriors of the Dystotheque - We're Taking Control - Justin Robertson's deadstock 33's Mix

7. Warriors of the Dystotheque - The Future Is Ours - Can U Dig It Edit 

7. Leftfield - Open Up - Skream Mix 

8. Goldfrapp - Anymore - Joe Goddard Mix 

9. Underworld - I Exhale - DJ Koze Mix 

10. Bonobo - Cirrus - Skool Of Thought - Edit

11. New Order - Your Silent Face - Fat Neck Retouch 

12. Depeche Mode - Going Backwards - Difference Electric Mix

State Mix: Warriors Of The Dystotheque - A Dystopian Tale

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