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Project Studio Tea Break
by Mike & Jon
Mike Senior & Jon Whitten set the project-studio world to rights over a steaming cuppa. Get in touch or support the podcast's biscuit fund via projectstudioteabreak.com.
Episodes
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PSTB #54: Project Studio 54, life-threatening Nickelback, and a Fun Lovin’ Criminal
This month sees the ultimate embodiment of toast Foley, Project Studio 54, sneaking in the back door of The 27 Club on a technicality, thereby clearing the decks for a forthcoming cinematic release of Commercial Studio Banquet. It's a culinary bonanza, as Mike tastes the music while nursing a GM...
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PSTB #53: One-of-one-so-far space-vinyl, swearing by proxy, and Ray Of Sunshine Against The Machine
In this month's individually hand-marbled episode, Mike welcomes Whon Jitten into his world of vocal-editing pain, tormenting him with James Blunt, a unionised bee in a Tupperware box, and a truly horrifying polar-pattern selection. Joining them is 2021's second biggest sell-out, Bob Dylan,...
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PSTB #52b: Episode? What episode?
In a spectacular double facepalm, Jon and Mike were completely unable to coordinate a podcasting date last month (or even early this month), but -- never fear! -- we have a couple of juicy extras to tide you over until the next proper episode in October. As if EDM fans didn't already have enough...
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PSTB #52: Googlewhack drum enhancement, iPod Skywalker, and The CPU Sizzler
It seems like only yesterday that Mike was dancing on block-colour backgrounds with 905 songs in his pocket, but his extraodinarily slow-acting curse has finally been fulfilled as Darth Cassette revanquishes iPod Skywalker in the stirring finale of The Airpods Strike Back. Meanwhile, Jon has been...
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PSTB #51: Martian breakfast, lip-sync ballet, and The Dukes Of Haphazard
By the power of the shiny-haired Hrímnir frá Hvammi, a shiny-headed Jon has been doing his Gollum-inspired Riverdance over a functional horse-keyboard, causing the word 'utilise' to vanish beautifully. Setting aside the JV1080 jubilee strings, however, he's been working hard at a Republican...
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PSTB #50: MIDI boiled eggs, exploding headpumps, and other unskeptical noisies
Inspired by Vidal Sasson, this month's episode is full of sparkletubes, slideyfarts, bashable barcodes, exploding headpumps, and many other unskeptical noisies. MIT are back to their old tricks, playing keepy-uppy in zero G with their dodecahedral space shaker. But they're no match for Jon…
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PSTB #49: Agent-swap Bumble, herringbone origami, and Bela Fleck’s musical chicken
Recorded from tea-cup perspective for maximum authenticity, this episode explains how to get from Douglas Adams to Terry Pratchet (via Brian Wilson) in a sleepy country voice. Jon, as befits a member of his multi-award-winning community, has been filling numerous creative roles: convicted pirate;...
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PSTB #48: The Tamagotchi recorder, BV shred-concealment, and a fretless foghorn
This month, a densely-woven Jon's been struggling to keep his mind out of the gutter by smearing a microphone thinly over the top of a modest vape rig and pushin a pre-1994 Barbie doll into a red cabbage, while serving borscht to a red-headed widow. Mike, though, has officially been busier than...
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PSTB #47: Screamo ceilidh, the anti-Donda, and toothbrush orchestration
Jon, the King Of Kittenz, is back in the Land Of Hope And Corbyn, and working surprisingly hard on an Ode To Sinusitis with his electrotango sitar and 50 guitars in unison. Kelly Clarkson's lending a hand with her virtuoso banjo, and Bready Mercury is managing the toothbrush orchestration. (It's…
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PSTB #46: GRAMMIES SPECIAL! (feat. WYSIWYG Doja and The Abbanator)
It's another star-studded Grammy Awards extravaganza, with DJs of all stripes, a suavely bearded Jon spreading his rebar wings, a grizzled Mike slapping himself in the face with American cheese, and a surreptitious Nirvana catfish. Hosier surmounts Olivia Rodrigo's parapet with Disney attitude to...
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PSTB #45: Proto-Twitter, snorkelling mimes, and The Magic Of Pegasus
Jump into the PSTB DeLorean, plug in 1kW of guitar pedals, and let's go for a star-studded ride! See Tina Turner, Mick Hucknall, and the drummer from Eastenders clamouring to jump into Puff Daddy's EDM sausage machine. Hear Hawkeye's Imagine Dragons impression, Captain Marvel's Magic Of Pegasus,...
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PSTB #44: Sleighbellitis, infrabeer, and The Rebeccaverse!
Welcome to the Rebeccaverse! Yes, you read that correctly, because we're joined by the smack-talking Angel of Christmas herself for our end-of-year spectacular. As you can imagine, the excitement has caused Mike to drop his monocle in his gin and tonic, and Jon to spill his cup of beautiful...
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PSTB #43c: Jon‘s first single has landed! Yay!
The day of Truth has arrived. The day of Justice. The day of Friday. But, even more importantly, it's launch day for Jon Whitten's first ever single under his own name! Yay! The song's called 'How To Make A Mirror', and features, as you'd hope, a herd of harmonising Whittens and the kind of...
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PSTB #43b: Sharks and Muppets
We told you all about Jon Whitten's single release tomorrow, but did you actually go to https://bit.ly/whittenand and immediately follow all his socials in feverish anticipation of the song's arrival? Deary, deary me. Well, don't say I didn't warn you...
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PSTB #43a: Steak and potatoes (a capella) and Flamenco wrestling
Casting the veil of anonymity boldly aside, our very own Jon Whitten will be releasing his first ever music under his own name on November 19th -- ie. in just a couple of days' time! It would help him enormously if you could immediately check out and (whisper it!) even follow his social media...
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PSTB #43: Karmic blunderbusses, a purring cheetah, and curated nothing
It's another episode stuffed with carefully curated nothing, beneath a comforting veneer of adventure, polished with insanity. Creativity meets the laws of physics with a bump, as Jon trains himself to fall over convincingly in thigh-high leather heels. But that's nothing to Mike's suspicious...
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PSTB #42: Granstein, Bing Kerching, and The Quirkening
Despite claiming this whole episode against tax, your intrepid hosts search once more for the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Jon has been chuntering joyously through all the most important notes, despite abuse from his non-bandleader. Even with ravaged thumb joints, though, he's...
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PSTB #41: Hula mics, spy pencils, and 2W of pure power
We're back again with a full two watts of pure podcasting power and a shirt full of double-necked electric guitars! Our indoor cat Jon has been busy scaling 30-metre mountains, painting an SM58 like a spy pencil, and making a mic out of a hula hoop. Meanwhile, Mike parts the kimono to reveal the...
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PSTB #40: A floppy screw, surefire noob tests, and Clarkson overwhelm
As our podcast slips on its Gucci (or is it Prada?) loafers and slides into sloppy middle age, it's time to brew some hot water, suck on a teabag, and ask 'What is a wall?' in a Swedish accent. Jon's been suffering the effects of jitter and bitcrushing, while learning to fail inconspicuously at...
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PSTB #40-ish: Mind the stop-gap!
The Mike & Jon Of Yestermonth valiantly tread water while present-day Mike & Jon pull their finger out and finally find a time they can both record a full episode. Consider it a kind of meta-facepalm... Fancy more of our nonsense? Then please support the podcast at...
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PSTB #39: R2-D2's internal monologue, hair-raising Bulgarian women, and the *other* Montero
Amidst the chocolate-brown upholstery of the PSTB studio, Jon has been using his tennis racquet to bake pizza, while Mike does his best zebra-finch impressions -- albeit with occasional distractions from Monkey Nuts & Wizzo and the *other* Montero. Via pioneering brain-controlled resynthesis, we...
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PSTB #38: Kentucky-fried Huapango, off-piste DX7, and Don LaFontaine's chewy syllables
Welcome to the Murder Booth! From his shallow grave, a fully organic Jon has been braving slugs and worms to bring you his best mycelium impression, with a penitential side-order of Kentucky-fried Huapango. Meanwhile, Mike's gone full Karate Kid in a world of Don LaFontaine's chewy syllables…
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PSTB #37: Rotcod Zzaj, faux-Italian solfeggio, and the ultimate hipster flex
This month's episode sees your effervescent hosts comprehensively outmanoeuvred by the mastery of Rotcod Zzaj. Having lost any claim to irony, Jon uncrumples his cummerbund and dons a rubber suit to discuss X-rated puppet escapades, the world's second-richest musician, and the Broadway-Disney…
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PSTB #36: The Skelecaster, THX Zelda, and Kanye's bingo card
Once again, your visibly more radiant hosts are abusing their enormous media power by pandering to viola players and financially exploiting ever younger artists. Jon's lost his child-like innocence amidst an apathetic Eyes Half Shut orgy, playing Skelecaster solos over a bed of foetal synths....
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PSTB #35: Audio umami, slam-dunking tubas, and the alien guitar womb
Your offensively second-talented hosts have been rejoicing in an Energy Quotient rating of 4.97 this month, while clearing the very lowest bar of brass-necked press relations with a dizzyingly sanitised Tower Of Power and some mysterious guitar noodlimen. Returning from his busman's holiday…
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PSTB #34: Dubstep rectangles, a glass countertenor, and The Great Tissue Controversy
It's been a long lockdown. A hatless Jon has been frightening timid voles while baking up Chekhov-grade disaster on his Fisher Price Singalong Radio. Mike has, amongst other lightly qualified successes, been fixing the cat with his soldering iron, as well as tumbling the walls of Jericho with...
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PSTB #33: Grammy nominations special! (feat. kittens)
Following a suitably down-home Christmas, your intrepid hosts battle Spotify fatigue to huddle round the PSTB dartboard for a Grammy nominations special! Mike has officially melted, and is now tearfully hoovering around the wet-ass elephant in the room. Jon, with his usual grammatical pedantry…
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PSTB #32: The Elvis schwa, hipster faireez, and an epicly burnt Scotch egg
Finally available in hardback, this month's festive episode promises gingerbread Foley and a Warlock's drinking anthem. Due to lack of demand for their eulogy-writing services, your intrepid Master Breakers have decamped to a Scottish space ghetto to investigate Saint Dolly, a duckfaced Norah...
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PSTB #31: Batman's barberpole, Palestrina parties, and lo-res heliox huffing
Welcome to your favourite ever PSTB episode! Jon, the accidental clothes horse, is emerging in a blizzard of metaphors from his hectic program of theatrical wrestling, all-night business drinking, and making bagpipes even more hellish. His intern Mike, broadcasting from the Millennium Falcon, has...
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PSTB #30: The Philuminati, Cadbury's gorilla, and Ozzy's anechoic bat-trap
Who better to lead you through today's post-truth apocalypse than two renowned purveyors of nonsense? Mike, that blessed innocent, has been blithely investigating the Philuminati at Milton Keynes Henge, and their shadowy links with the Cadbury gorilla's magic break. Tracing the sinister web to…
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PSTB #29: Sub-SubKick, guppy impressions, and RIPQ
In a spirit of RIPQ, this month we ask: who the hell do Mike & Jon think they are? Do they really expect us to believe they've just been swimming in cottage cheese doing guppy impressions for weeks? What about the rumours of equine stampedes, otter wave-machines, and biological lava lamps? What...
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PSTB #28: Bass fire-hose, 1.237 microBiebers, and the ideal platonic sausage
It's a flora and fauna special this month, so boil your mix-referencing kettle as PSTB's octogenarian park rangers play guitar to budgies at elevated sample rates, expose non-flamingos to Caravaggio, and politely ask small shrubs to switch off their blackberries. Mike, freshly unmasked as Martin...
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PSTB #27: Bridgeolian harpjo, carpet-underlay music, and the nuclear kerchief
Despite the cosy domestic scene here at PSTB headquarters, baking scones and sharing long involved stories about the British monarchy, there have been rumours of sedition in the ranks of #TeamNik on account of the artist formerly known as Einaudi. Nothing can keep Jon from the ongoing influencer...
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PSTB #26: Simon Cowell's shock collar, passive-aggressive guitars, and the Sarlaac drum machine
It's a worrying time for your two intrepid tea-breakers. Mike's battling his Eurovision withdrawal symptoms by composing aleatorically with a dandelion, while precariously balancing a small bowl of kibbles. John's doing battle with a Sarlaac drum machine, underscoring the Queen's life with Korn,...
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PSTB #25: Hamstering, airborne jacuzzis, and fixing Gal Gadot
It's mayhem in this month's crisis edition! Mike's singing at gerbil-threatening volumes while pioneering rehooker Maxo's 8-bit funk is exploding his brain. Jon's hamstering drum-sticks, training a rock-and-roll chicken, and spreading jam on ducks. Laura Marling's refusing to wash her baritone...
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PSTB #24: Thumpsy-thumpsy, manual Iron Man, and the end-of-X-Files face
This month we challenge all you podfasters to brave our break-neck pace, as a puddlish Jon (or is it Geraldine eating crackers?) and the hollow shell of Mike reveal good news for the serious, intellectual thumpsy-thumpsy listener -- or anyone else directing their Marmite sneer at the…
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PSTB #23: Thunderfinger Royale, sneezing gnomes, and Friday-sus-Wednesday
It's awards season this month at the NAMM show, where we're doling out those coveted PSTB gongs for Silly Name, 3D Poster, Dusty Controls, and (of course) Straight To Landfill! Veteran spam-wrangler Jon has been navigating impending Abmeldung from his throne of radical leftist literature, as well...
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PSTB #22: Luthierism, feline schadenfreude, and The Curse Of Happy Village
As we head further into the official Year Of The Echo, we capture the cinematic Zeitgeist by sneaking through doors, picking up swords, and filling our cup of feline schadenfreude to the brim with grisly apolcalyptic visions of the Uncanny Valley. Blacksmith to the stars Jon Whitten warns of the...
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PSTB #21: Chew Yourself Fit, The Joy Of Theft, and a human Frappuccino
On this month's virtual C60 we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Walkman, as well as Sony's recent assault on the retro Goldilocks Zone. Mike, our human Frappuccino, has been airbrushing his own facepalms and rejoicing in the exquisite URL innuendos of Mole Station Nursery and Pen Island. Jon...
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PSTB #20: Bublé's Irish Cream, sleighbell taxes, and The Sucker Punch Of Derision
In this special festive edition, we settle down with a sackful of Maltesers, a bottle of Bublé's Irish Cream, and an emergency spatula to survey the best and worst of Christmas singlage. In-house feline support specialist Mike reveals that all Mariah Carey wants for Christmas is Jah, and also…
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PSTB #19: Snug-verbing, virtuoso electricity, and The Four-letter Count
Bellingstropp-Smythe & Sons proudly present this month's Oolong Hour, replete with snug-verbing, potty-mouthed sponsors, sensual mastication, and goodly chunks of papier-mâché. John (aka The Salieri Of Puppets) betrays his 18- and 25-year-old selves by using the creepily long arms of the fishy...
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PSTB #18: Madonna fixations, Scaramanga's axe, and unrappabilityto
The Master Breakers return refreshed and alert from their summer travels with fresh crisp-packet metaphors and an unhealthy Madonna fixation. Jon's been gate-crashing perfume adverts at The Royal Opera House with his close personal friend Salvador Dali, as well as pioneering the concept of...
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PSTB #17: Audio bacon, Spot The Toast, and chatting with Miss T
It's a holiday facepalm special this month, with Mike destroying his means of production and co-hosting with a sock puppet. Meanwhile, Jon has tracked down the elusive Miss T for an in-depth discussion of gravy. There's a challenge for all you Foley connoisseurs too: our first ever 'Spot The…
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PSTB #16: Reverse hallelujahs, stereo hoovering, and a bag of smashed crabs
This month it's a Superbooth special, with intense dubstep typing, motivational sawtooth waves, and a bag of smashed crabs that's blown the lid off Indiegogo. In other news, the Dark Prince Of Crochet (aka Jon) has been shouting into a recycle bin, building up his resistance to haggis, and...
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PSTB #15: Hobbit feet, old submarine bits, and tonsorial option-paralysis
It's no holds barred this month as Leo Tolstoy and Jean-Jacques Nattiez square up in a musical version of Celebrity Deathmatch. Meanwhile, your intrepid Master Breakers consider displaying their Hobbit feet in glorious HD and commiserate over shared tonsorial option-paralysis. Mike's career as a...
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PSTB #14: Heavy-metal kittens, karmic pest control, and musical guacamole
Armed with their best picardy thirds, the guys start up their viral factory once again with heavy-metal kitten videos and Chewbacca singing Nessun Dorma. There's exciting news too of dubstep's karmic pest-control properties, 19th-century composers' beards, and Mike's first world-record attempt.…
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PSTB #13: Oxtail filtering, harmonikazoos, and the 'f*** you' delay
Heading into festival season, your intrepid crowdsurfers park their inflatable car so that Jon can wreak quiz-based revenge and explain the origin of the 'f*** you' delay. Speaking of Bangface, Mike treats his co-host to a Grommit-grade tale of thoroughly British Palmfacing, and extols the…
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PSTB #12: Count Duckula, gourmet risotto, and bunraku puppet twerking
Defying ancient Mayan prophecies of the apocalypse, your intrepid Master Breakers explain how to raise 40 grand in three quarters of an hour, while making 40 percent of a joke about The Danish String Quartet. Google's prog-rock Bach emulator is tested to destruction, with plenty of gory details...
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PSTB #11: Syllabist poetry, John Cage's evil twin, and The 100k Per Foot Rule
For this month's episode your intrepid Project Studio procrastinators cut like a knife through their favourite lyrical cliches, plan a Syllabist poetry slam, and resist the urge to shout 'Hey' while drinking moonshine under a harvest moon. Errol the Chipmunk is sorely provoked by discussions of...
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PSTB #10: Pigmy elephants, flamboyant boxer shorts, and the Marquis's crystal sword
This month, Mike succumbs to Brexit-fever and receives entirely unnecessary divine assistance in looking foolish. Meanwhile, Jon skips through fields of daisies with his new robot roadie, stuffs his shoes with his own flamboyant boxer shorts, and explains how to score top marks in Ambient...
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Mike Senior & Jon Whitten set the project-studio world to rights over a steaming cuppa. Get in touch or support the podcast's biscuit fund via projectstudioteabreak.com.
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Mike Senior & Jon Whitten set the project-studio world to rights over a steaming cuppa. Get in touch or support the podcast's biscuit fund via projectstudioteabreak.com.
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