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Mike Senior & Jon Whitten survey the project-studio world over a cuppa.
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Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
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 hangover, Jon tastes his own Olivier Award with Draco Malfoy, and Abel Selaocoe tastes gateway-drug salad from an everlasting queue. And in an emotional homecoming, Lydia Sherwood's backspaceless AI alerts us to The Fun Lovin' Criminal And His Two Guest Perpetrators, while MoFi apply their Instagram kitten filter to the masterpieces of Manet in an attempt to save famous Muppet musicians from the life-threatening effects of Nickelback. Sadly, though, it is here we must leave your intrepid hosts for posterity, clinging to trees with their teeth while Einaudi enriches the hack with pedals of beautifully framed formula.
You can catch Jon's ongoing endeavours all over the web via at https://linktr.ee/whittenand_ or email him direct at jonwhittenmusic@gmail.com
And you can check out what Mike's up to by heading over to https://www.cambridge-mt.com/ or email him direct on teabreak@projectstudioteabreak.com
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Sunday Oct 02, 2022
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
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, eschewing mayonnaise for overpriced one-of-one-so-far space-vinyl. So if you're not showering on a busy road under a helicopter while mowing the lawn, do join us in getting 80 percent of the way there with just two clicks. Alternatively, fix yourself a snack of buttered marshmallow and cosmic salami, and skate-mosh the night away to Ray Of Sunshine Against The Machine, Malmsteen's shawm, or Biffy Clyro's swearing by proxy. It's enough to make you want to scream for a living...
To check out Jon's latest theatre project 'Gilgamesh, Enkidu & Ishtar', head over to https://www.instagram.com/gilgamesh_theatre_/
And you can find Mike's free Cambridge-MT podcast episode at https://www.cambridge-mt.com/alaska/
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Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
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 reasons to hit the bourbon...
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Monday Aug 01, 2022
Monday Aug 01, 2022
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 getting the pseuds on board by hurling his angry, passionate talent at the microphone and rattling his big draw of nicknacks and marbles (one of his cheapest, dirtiest music-production whotsits). If you're feeling more bouffant than thou, then you'll doubtless be shredding with Yngwie Malmsteen on a 14-string guitar with an M.C. Escher headstock and the cleverness of The Ancients. Or if you've been suffering from a truly three-ghoster facepalm (perhaps because those googly eyes have been looking straight into your soul), then perhaps some Googlewhack drum enhancement might help you enjoy Game Of Shrooms or Drunk Shakespeare while you snack messily on The CPU Sizzler.
Needless to say, art critics have not been invited to weigh in on the subject.
If you'd like to sign up for Mike's Cambridge-MT mailing list for weekly resource updates, blog posts, and tutorial freebies, just head over to:
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Monday Jul 04, 2022
Monday Jul 04, 2022
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 campsite to make his guitar sound as awful as The Dukes Of Haphazard. But could anything be as awful as Diana Ross's headline lip-sync ballet at the Platinum Party At The Palace? Mike, the segue king, struggles to believe it, and is currently self-medicating with Martian breakfast, canned angelic shimmer, and glittery sprinkles on every technological unicorn.
If you'd like to listen to Mike's in-depth review of Sound Theory's Gullfoss plug-in, complete with a variety of illustrative audio examples, then check out this free-to-listen episode of the Cambridge-MT Patrons Podcast:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/cambridge-mt-27623076
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Friday Jun 03, 2022
Friday Jun 03, 2022
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, singing Kylie Minogue on a War Horse to the accompaniment of chimes that go 'thunk', or Mike dancing with his shoelace amidst a barrage of MIDI boiled eggs. Also, there's a bunch of grumbling Dads riding their pickup moped on a quest for bespoke pencil erasers, while also bringing Pringle Pringles to a shark-tamer in Mozambique. All in a day's work for anyone with a Jackson Pollock career trajectory.
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Friday May 06, 2022
Friday May 06, 2022
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; amateur organ salesman; inadvertently fraudulent (but unfireable) accountant; and inverse Lazarus, smiting the unworthy asunder. So how come his SM58 died of shame? Mike, on the other hand has been installing the latest in New Age musical-box security while extolling the virtues of choral child labour, Bela Fleck's musical chicken, and agent-swap Bumble. In Alanis Morissette's happy village, meanwhile, we witness the shocking abuse of some herringbone origami by a bunch of Tony Bennetts wielding slowly wilting flowers, and learn how best to display 15 Grammies. So leave your vintage paperweights behind, honeychild, and join us as we build a compost heap to the accompaniment of 'Leave The Montero Open'.
Those about to be drunk, we salute you!
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Friday Apr 01, 2022
Friday Apr 01, 2022
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 him, scribbling a 10-year callback on manuscript at 3am and shouting 'Number!' at other podcasters in a hell of his own making. Nevertheless, he's found time to brush aside Will Smith's slap (despite living under a Rock) and consider this year's Oscar-nominated songs. We hear about Billie Eilish trying not to suck. Van Morrison's car-horn brass and BV shred-concealment. A drone-dodging Reba McEntire losing her precariously balanced hat. And Beyonce leaving her ornamental trombonists unpainted for want of a euphoniumist's chair. In other news, we channel George Massenburg through the Tamagotchi recorder to capture the finest one-dimensional voltage wobbles, and (once we've recovered from our pre-shawm flinch) hear a swanee saxophonist making bubblegum instrumentalists sound like skill minnows. All in all, it's an intense emotional struggle with a fretless foghorn on a slightly elevated sofa.
To hear Jon's latest single 'Lie To Me', head over to https://linktr.ee/whittenand_
And you can find Mike's super-grammatical tuning video at https://www.patreon.com/posts/61727565
Thanks to Benn Jordan and Daniel Vaczi for allowing me to use the glissotar demonstration featured in this episode. Check out Benn's youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCshObcm-nLhbu8MY50EZ5Ng and Daniel's incredible performances with the Glissonic Trio at https://danielvaczi.bandcamp.com
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Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
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 no Kind Of Bloop, though -- for that you'd need a screamo ceilidh caller in a Hert locker.) Mike, Ninja Of Kilobits, is helping out too, setting aside his political ambitions to wield Chekhov's gun against the anti-Donda, while Lin Manuel The Frog adds maximum authenticity by chipmunking his own brainwaves. There are other low-hanging vegetables as well, including a 30-second Dark Side Of The Moon from the Device Orchestra and our desert-island luxury of celestial toast. If that's not poetic justice, then try whipping someone with a bamboo wing -- and if they feel blue, remind them that Animal is red. See how we waft it back and forth!
Check out Jon's very own music project "Whitten And" on Instagram and TikTok!
https://www.instagram.com/whittenand_/
https://www.tiktok.com/@whittenand_/
...and you can also get tickets to his show The Wicker Husband at Newbury's Watermill Theatre here:
https://www.watermill.org.uk/wicker_husband
Fancy more of our nonsense? Then please support the podcast at https://www.patreon.com/projectstudioteabreak and check out the merch store at https://www.projectstudioteabreak.com/merch
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Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
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 resist the rise of The Abbanator. Anderson Paak's been feeding salt-and-vinegar crisps to Bruno Mars from Lady Gaga's poisoned chalice, although Jon Batiste decided to stick with his gourmet salad. Alicia Keys and Brandi Carlile are displaying zero-content conviction for Lil Nas X, as he backs a losing horse down Old Town Road. Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran & David Guetta compare stolen harmonies with the bare-faced cheek of Eilish fatigue. And, at his subversively religious home-arranger keyboard, the Right Honorable Justice Bieber is playing Swiftie's ode to toenail-clipping, while WYSIWYG Doja joins the unfairly non-new Finneas to watch Kid Laroi stirring HER's glossy snow globe with his wooden spoon.
Check out Jon's very own music project "Whitten And" on Instagram and TikTok!
https://www.instagram.com/whittenand_/
https://www.tiktok.com/@whittenand_/
...and you can also get tickets to his show The Wicker Husband at Newbury's Watermill Theatre here:
https://www.watermill.org.uk/wicker_husband
Fancy more of our nonsense? Then please support the podcast at https://www.patreon.com/projectstudioteabreak and check out the merch store at https://www.projectstudioteabreak.com/merch
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Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
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, and Shatner Claus's Gilbert & Sullivan chillout. There's plenty of action fodder too, with Bruce Willis, Mr T, and Vin Diesel all throwing digeridoo shade. Not to be outdone, Jon's been soft-shoe tap-dancing with a pedometer, as well as playing the moray-eel trombone with hundreds of snorkelling mimes. Mike, on the other hand, has endured a tantric single that's left him screaming piano-recording examples in his sleep. Let's hope that he still makes the proto-Twitter Scroll of Honour before he falls on his own wine-pistol...
Fancy more of our nonsense? Then please support the podcast at https://www.patreon.com/projectstudioteabreak and check out the merch store at https://www.projectstudioteabreak.com/merch
For more episodes, as well as links relating to each one (via our zero-spam but 100-percent-idiocy mailing list), check out https://www.projectstudioteabreak.com. Or get in touch by email at teabreak@projectstudioteabreak.com.
Check out Jon's very own music project "Whitten And" on Instagram and TikTok!
https://www.instagram.com/whittenand_/
https://www.tiktok.com/@whittenand_/
...and you can also still (only just!) get tickets to his show at The Royal Opera House with Little Bulb Theatre (called 'Wolf, Witch, Giant, Fairy') here:
https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/wolf-witch-giant-fairy-by-little-bulb-details
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
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 Balinese angel-cat tea into the hummingbird feeder. It's a musical extravaganza too, as we sing along to 'It's Only A Pumpkin-Spice Subwoofer Moon', 'Twangles The Christmas Squid', and other meditation-metal classics, while swigging our infrabeers for the sake of Auld Lang Syne (and, by extension, Atlantis). Santa's been good to us this year, with news of jellyfish street art (with shading) and cat-related support dogs, as well as the most ripened of Christmas quizzes. In short, the paw of destiny has once more shattered the bounds of time, despite a bad case of sleighbellitis.
For all things Rebecca Angel-related, head over to her website at:
https://rebeccaangel.com/
Check out Jon's very own music project "Whitten And" on Instagram and TikTok!
https://www.instagram.com/whittenand_/
https://www.tiktok.com/@whittenand_/
...and you can also get tickets to his show at The Royal Opera House with Little Bulb Theatre (called 'Wolf, Witch, Giant, Fairy') here:
https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/wolf-witch-giant-fairy-by-little-bulb-details
Fancy more of our nonsense? Then please support the podcast at https://www.patreon.com/projectstudioteabreak and check out the merch store at https://www.projectstudioteabreak.com/merch
For more episodes, as well as links relating to each one (via our zero-spam but 100-percent-idiocy mailing list), check out https://www.projectstudioteabreak.com. Or get in touch by email at teabreak@projectstudioteabreak.com.
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Friday Nov 19, 2021
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 dulcimer playing that only our very own Jon could have shaken a stick at. So what are you waiting for?! Tarry no longer, but head over without delay to the following link and treat your grateful ears to a listen!
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
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...
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
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 accounts to stay up to date with the launch. There's steak and potatoes (a capella) to be had. And some Flamenco wrestling too, as you'd expect...
You can find all the links here!
https://bit.ly/whittenand
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Monday Nov 01, 2021
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 heatsink-related injuries, which have left him dreaming of magic gofers and a self-emptying plastic volcano. (Serves him right for bringing a rifle mic to an karmic blunderbuss party.) In the wings, The Empress purses her lips like the diva she is, before moving the Archdeacon to tears with Chaucerian English. So pull up a candelabra, pour yourself a refreshing glass of sauerkraut juice, and relax to the sound of grimier-than-thou Luchadors, a purring cheetah, and Morris Minors masquerading as Corvettes.
Check out Jon's very own music project "Whitten And" on Instagram and TikTok!
https://www.instagram.com/whittenand_/
https://www.tiktok.com/@whittenand_/
...and you can also get tickets to his show at The Royal Opera House with Little Bulb Theatre (called 'Wolf, Witch, Giant, Fairy') here:
https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/wolf-witch-giant-fairy-by-little-bulb-details
Fancy more of our nonsense? Then please support the podcast at https://www.patreon.com/projectstudioteabreak and check out the merch store at https://www.projectstudioteabreak.com/merch
For more episodes, as well as links relating to each one (via our zero-spam but 100-percent-idiocy mailing list), check out https://www.projectstudioteabreak.com. Or get in touch by email at teabreak@projectstudioteabreak.com.
Saturday Oct 02, 2021
Saturday Oct 02, 2021
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 still been chasing headphone-clad cows with his Super Soaker and creating the most offensive video he's seen all year. Meanwhile, Mike has been finger-tutting in the original Javanese, and having the time of his life with happy-clappy backing vocals and a librarian nose-flautist. There's plenty of exciting news to share too, featuring Nirvana's grown-up baby, Switzerland's erstwhile Granstein, and the astounding freeloading of Bing Kerching. But now that RebeccaAngel.net has answered our prayers, will RebeccaAngel.com? Find out in the latest instalment of 'The Quirkening'...
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Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
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 single organ he's been relying on for employment, but (to give discredit where's discredit's due) you have to admire his kitten-perspective cooking blog's Spidey Sense. There's plenty to learn this episode too. How to pull more emotion out of a lampshade. How to get 90% worse at eating silent toasted pitta. How to make lollipops look like trees. And how to reach Zen convergence between calming highlighters and a paradoxically expensive ukulele. Plus, don't miss a guest appearance by the very unhippy Mr & Mrs Clipboard, reminding us all to check the big text again.
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Thursday Aug 05, 2021
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
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 impromptu outreach. Mike valiantly resists innuendo to report on chocolate acrobatics, whole-body shivers, and a floppy screw, as well as bringing us another banger from Presto Public Relations. (It's about tone and beauty. And Clarkson overwhelm. And an Abbey Road cliché like no other.) That's not all, though, because there's also the tremendous craft of White Woman's Instagram, a pair of 60s space aliens, and some surefire noob tests. So remember: if life gives you lemons, then claim you were going for lemons in the first place!
You can catch the latest show Jon's been working on (called 'Candide, or Optimism At All Costs') at Cambridge's Robinson Theatre until Saturday September 7th:
https://www.babolintheatre.com/candide.html
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Sunday Aug 01, 2021
Sunday Aug 01, 2021
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...
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