...Ryan Giggs. It seems streamlined is the way forward.

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DBA013X: Dust Under Bridges (Appendix /i) 
Don’t Be Afraid offer Appendix i/ii to Halvtrak’s Dust Under Bridges EP, a cassette full of tracks recorded before that particular EP but deemed unworthy of release by their creator. The tracks are pulsating, muscular techno, all percussive workouts and hazy vistas.. Free download, cassette or cassette/vinyl bundle are the available options, though the day it dropped it was already down to four remaining for the bundle. Talk nicely to Benji maybe, he’s a good dude.

Karmelloz - Source Localization
Kind of a weird one, this. 1080p put out kind of weird ones, I guess. This is all muted techno and trippy effects and garbled horror music. I like it.

Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Ballade for a Snow Moon
This is gorgeously sublime. It's just, like, one short phrase on loop for an hour basically, and it soothes and calms with its simplicity. You can't download it though, it was a limited release and is now stream only. Better than nothing though.

M.TAKARA - mundo tigre
This is a bit circumlocutory. I saw a tweet from Nuno Valle advising readers to email someone to get a Bandcamp link to something amazing. I did it and, sure enough, the album I was sent is indeed amazing. Gorgeous gloopy Border Community-style electronica, some of it clubby, some of it more jilted, all of it excellent. It's worth going for, anyway.

The Love Songs - Taping Home Vol. 1
Last night I tweeted a joke about the droning sound of our new dishwasher. Sven Swift, Error Broadcast don, linked me to a four-track release he put out under the name The Love Songs back in 2008. It features, among other such experiments, a track that is literally a recording of his washing machine: "We got this machine a year ago and I was mesmerized by it's characteristic sound instantly. You can modulate the texture by the type of dishes you pack in, by the program you choose and the position of the mics."Great minds, something something.
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Dfalt - Forty Mornings
I only found this today and it's a last-minute entry, but it's pretty essential. LA producer Dfalt made a track every morning for 40 days, and this set is the result. It's a mixed bag style wise, largely chopped-up mood-driven instrumental hip-hop, but there's some more uptempo stuff there, as well as some ambient-ish 'scapes. I'm only a quarter through, but it's really good.

Eomac - Spectre
Dublin’s Eomac has been firing on all cylinders this year, both solo and as one half of Lakker. This forthcoming taste of his debut album is gloriously understated. As if to illustrate my point about his industry, he also contributed this week’s Juno Podcast, and it's a banger.

Wonj - Vox Pod Past /// Wonj - Melancholy Italo Disco Pod Past
If you don't know her, Wonj has the best Twitter bio bar none. She's just made two mixes (sorry, I mean Pod Pasts) - one a mix of melancholy Italo disco, the other a sequence of ethereal mood builders - "some lil tracks with nice vocals or choirs or vocal synths" as she puts it. Who ever thought that two weeks in a row we'd be featuring Aguirre? As they say, not mad.

Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
There was a time in 2009 that I listened to this every night when I got the bus home from work, its 28 minutes of swooning bliss being the perfect length to get me to my door. For some reason or another Hans-Peter upped this gem the other day, so I've been vibing out to to it at my desk. Blade Runner 2008.

Mood Hut Mix 006 (Mind Software) 
Man like Angus shared this one, and it's similar to the Motion Sickness of Time Travel piece in that it's gorgeously lush, dare I say it. It didn't so much evoke any feelings as draw a veil over my brain, washing away everything bad. A bit like Xanax, I imagine.

LinG - Cine Mix
Plug of sorts here, LinG did an amazing mix that he kindly offered to Truants, it's called Cine Mix and it's suitably epic. Some incredible transitions, great tunes (obviously), a wonderful shift from Herzog score to techno to grime to weird electronica and finally some J-pop.

Nautiluss - L2M
This ones goes pretty hard with the percussion, but that repeated piano refrain is refreshingly bright and summery. L2M = listening to music, FYI.

Machine Woman - Paris
I just discovered Machine Woman thanks to Tayyab's Truants post on her latest release for Tesla Tapes, it's pretty fantastic. I'd have posted it above but I hit the magic number and I'm trying to keep it neat. This is on her Soundcloud, it's from a year ago but it's dope.

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So there we have it. In case you were wondering, the subject line coupled with the name of that evergreen footballer comes from a poem that a reader sent in to Man United magazine in the summer of 1994. I thought it appropriate for this 11th edition of BC.

Peace out,

Aidan