The 17th Playlist Mix podcast saw the introduction of Broken Social Scene to the proceedings. One thing I love about the Canadian music scene is their ability to churn out quality bands and quality musicians and the collective that make up Broken Social Scene are no different.

Today’s free track for your lent listening is ‘Backed Out On The…’. Grab the MP3 below (right click, save target as etc.)

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Still in a downtempo buzz, here’s General Fuzz with ‘Liquid Jazz’ as lent-fest continues with free podsafe music downloads. This track first appeared on Playlist Mix 13 but it’s also a track I keep on CD in the van as part of a podsafe compilation, some great free flowing jazz movement with some funky beats thrown in for good measure.

Inspired by Orbital, the Orb, Chicane, Phish, the Crystal Method and a whole host more, General Fuzz writes music to “protest to boring electronic music that is flooding the world. Every song is a distinct composition, with melody, counter point, and ample psychedelic vibes.”

Check it out for yourselves below.

The fifth of 46 tracks for your lenten listening comes from Low Sea Roar, featured on Playlist Mix #5. San Francisco’s Low Sea Roar was formed in the wintry throws of January 2007 over beers and burgers at the Zeitgeist by Andrea Caturegli, Jake Hosek (both formerly of The Stratford 4), Adam Hain and Brandon Tomas.

Though featured back in late 2007, it’s looking like they’ve been fairly quiet or non-existant since mid to late 2008. Still, they did have some pretty good tunes and you can still grab a listen on their MySpace or download ‘Sirens’ below.

Long one of my favourite podsafe tracks featured since the podcast began, this track wound its way onto show number 4 and show number 15 (recapping 2007). They’re from New York, they’re currently wrapping up their new album and the track – Countdown – seemingly appeared in the season three premiere of Heroes? Check out Jupiter One on MySpace

Buy the Jupiter One album here on iTunes (Ireland) or here (USA)

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Grow your music collection and expand your podsafe listening – there’s something you can do during Lent and it’s something you can start today. ‘46 tracks’ is what I’m calling the series and it’s shedding a spotlight on 46 podsafe tracks and artists that have been featured across some of the 47 previous podcasts under PlaylistMix.com

While Lent itself, starting today until Easter Sunday, is 46 calendar days it seems you don’t count the Sundays which brings around the “40 days and 40 nights” idea. Sounds like I have no faith at all. So, over the next 46 days you’ll be introduced to a new track and band, or reintroduced if you’ve been following the podcast from the very beginning.

At the end of it all you should have 46 tracks for your collection. Head on over to Cubikmusik (another quality Irish music blog) and you should be able to get yourself a further 46 tracks bringing you close to 100 free music downloads over Lent. Not a bad offer really! If albums are your thing then KilkennyMusic.com are also running a series dubbed ‘46 albums’.

First track on the way shortly. If you want to run something similar, let me know!