In his song ‘Atoms for Peace’, Thom Yorke sang, “No more talk about the old days, it’s time for something great.” Here at MJR, we plan on taking those lyrics to heart… right after this post that is.

This was a renaissance year for us. As you probably already know, after not posting a new episode since November 2006, most people had assumed that MJR was as dead as the cassette tape. But 2008 proved we were not only alive, but setting up for an even more productive future.

Continuing the four episode-per-year ratio we had in ‘05 and ‘06, this past year really saw us step up our production value. At least we thought so— especially since we were still working with the same computers and software we used for Episode 1.

Of course, that won’t be the case for 2009. We’ve not only made our first financial contribution to MJR this past month in adding a MIDI controller to our arsenal, but should also be updating both of our computers very soon. For us, this is pretty exciting as we’ll finally be able to truly control the creation and editing process for all of our compositions without too many limitations.

Thus, 2009 is looking like a potentially phenomenal year for MJR. Why is that? Because we have set the ultimate goal for ourselves that by the end of 2009, we will put together our first album of “mostly” original material. This will be in contrast to the podcasts, which should become even more sample based than before.

And that’s the summary of ‘08 and the forecast for ‘09. As always, thanks for listening and we hope to have some fun stuff for you starting in January. Cheers.