Welcome to the musical home of Ian J Cole
Composer, Musician, Producer and Sound Designer
currently producing ambient electroacoustic music
and running Sinners Music Records
Hosting the monthly Audiophile Radio Show
on all good podcast streaming platforms
Ian is a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians
and
The Guild of Northern Media Composers
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December 2025
Ian spent Christmas in London with family having a lovely time although he did take his latest musical purchase with him, the latest Akai MPC Live 3 groove box which Ian spent some of his time learning over Christmas.
November 2025
Ian went back to his home town of York to review the ASFF film festival, Jason couldn't go so Ian roped in his old friend Steve to help, you can watch all of the videos here.Ian gave a talk for Sound Scotland on the subject of 'Navigating the Online Digital World for Composers & Artists' on the 20th and Look, Stranger! performed for the first time at the Wells EMOM playing three songs including this Talk Talk song.
October 2025
Sinners Music Records released Alignment by The Azimuth Tilt on the 1st Oct. Ian formed a new band Look, Stranger! with singer Louise. The reason the band is called Look,Stranger! is a reference to W H Auden who is from Ian's home town of York and surprise surprise Louise is also from York. Their 1st Gig will be on the 28th Nov at the Wells EMOM.nt intact
September 2025
Ian visited Machina Bristronica again on the 27th & 28th of the month, you can find out what he thought here. He also worked on the debut album of The Azimuth Tilt, which is due for release on the 1st October, Ian produced a couple of videos for Tilt Those Quite Evenings and The Exquisite Space.
August 2025
The month was dominated by Ian & Janes visit and reviews of Edinburgh Fringe Festival, all the videos can be watch here.
July 2025
Ian visited Gearfest in London on the 19th as well as releasing his album 96th Day of the Year.
June 2025
Three editions of Ian & Jason's new podcast Sinners Review landed and can be watched here
May 2025
The early part of the month was spent preparing for the EMOM festival in Leeds on the 17th Ian performed two sets with Jason Cooke as the Wave Prophets, you can watch the performances here. Ian also launched a new website called Sinners Review for all of the reviews, radio shows and Ian & Jasons new Sinners Review Podcast can live, click here to check it out.
April 2025
Ian performed at the Bristol EMOM on the 8th March and spent some of the month in London where he went to a very ropey performance by William Basinski you can check out the video here.
March 2025
The month started with Ian releasing his album In Spite of Everything on the 7th March and on the 22nd he visited the London Synth & Pedal show, you can watch a video of the event here. On the 27th Ian performed at the Bournemouth EMOM which was nearly a disaster, find out what happened here.
February 2025
On 1st Feb Ian headlined at Breezeblock Beats in Frome, you can catch a snippet of the night here. Sinners Music Records also released the Ramshackle album on the 7th Feb and An Endless Sky album on the 28th Feb, Ian and Jason Cooke had a songwriting and production session at Jason's Studio in Bruton. Ian also played the Wells EMOM on the 28th Feb.
January 2025
The month was spent working on the An Endless Sky album for Sinners Music Records, the album is due for release on the 28th February and is an album of short stories with music and sound design by Ian. Ian also prepared for his performance at Breezeblock Beats in Frome on the 1st Feb
December 2024
On 1st December Sinners Music Records released two albums, the debut Christmas album by The Wave Prophets called Frosty and a free to download Seven Deadly Sinners Vol 2. Ian also started work on An Endless Sky an album of strange and Beautiful Words & Music due for release next year.
November 2024
1st November Ian & Sinners Music released mho's 2nd album, you can listen to static display here.
On the 5th Ian went back up to York to review the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, you can watch the reviews here. Ian also released The Fraser Syndrome on all download and streaming sites and there is a fantastic review that you can read here.
October 2024
At the beginning of the month Ian spent a weekend back in Sheffield at Synthfest, you can see the video results here in part 1 & part 2. He also went to Machina Bristronica the following weekend in Bristol and was less than impressed, you can watch his review here. On the 18th Ian played the 2nd Wells Electronic Open Mic Night, you can watch his performance here. The rest of the month was taken up with Mastering and then promoting the next mho album which is due for release on the 1st November, Ian also found time to schedule his streaming solo release of The Fraser Syndrome for the 15th November.
September2024
On the 6th September Ian & Sinners Music released two EMOM York XVII Electronic Open Mic Night compilation albums Side 1 & Side 2.
August 2024
The first part of the month was taken up with filming & reviewing shows at Edinburgh Fringe, Ian & Jane managed to review over 45 shows in 12 days you can view their reviews here. He also managed to have 5.1 million views on his TikTok channel thoughout the month.
July 2024
On the 5th July Ian performed at the Wells Electronic Open Mic Night, you can watch part of his performance here. He also went to GearFest on the 13th July in London to meet up with synth friends and on the 31st July headed up to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe which was a very long 9 hour journey involving 15 different modes of transport, although he did manage to work on some drum loops on his Teenage Engineering OPZ synthesiser.
June 2024
Ian started puting the finishing touches to the next Sinners Music Records release which will be the Nerve Senta album from 1981 this has been a two year project to make this long lost record available again, the release is scheduled for July 26th.
May 2024
On the 7th May Ian and Jane's House contents arrived and Ian had to rush to have the studio up and working so he could finish the dance project started back in February, this work was completed on the 17th May
April 2024
Ian enjoyed his 5 weeks living in london but on the 18th April he and Jane packed their car and drove to their new house in Frome Somerset, Ian documented this in Leaving Yorkshire Part 3, although Ian & Jane's belonging wouldn't arrive for another 3 weeks. Sinners Music Records and all music production stopped for April except the Audiophile Radio Show and Ian's weekly guest appearance on the Synth Geekery Youtube Show which continued.
March 2024
On the 5th March Ian was invited to sing in rehearsal with the reformed Eat the Peach, it was a splendid reunion. The next night 6th March Ian played the York XIII Electronic Open Mic Night, the performances were recorded for a future Sinners Music Records Release, you can listen to Ian's performance here. All of Ian & Jane's belongings were going into storage for 3 months until their new house in Somerset was ready this work was undertaken on the 7th & 8th March with Ian & Jane Leaving East Yorkshire on the 11th and moving in with Family in London for 5 weeks, Ian filmed the process which you can watch here: Leaving Yorkshire Part 1 & Part 2.
February 2024
The Completion date for the sale of Ian's house was agreed to be the 11th March so Ian & Jane started packing everything up, Ian also started working on music for a Dance Project that was to be completed remotely by May although the first two sessions were recorded on the 12th and 14th of February.
January 2024
Ian's house had been sold back in November but the buyer had insisted that the studio should have a new supended floor and fire door and frame, you can watch the details here, so most of the month was taken up with having this work done, Ian cleared the studio put everything into storage so that the sale could go ahead.
December 2023
Sinners Music release the 2nd album by American artist Tony Imperatice Time on the 15th December and Ian also created a free Xmas gift Sinners Music Records compilation album 'Seven Deadly Sinners Vol 1' before heading off to London for a Christmas break, Ian was a guest on the GEOSynths on New Years Eve, you can watch it here.
November 2023
On the 1st November Ian played the Hull Electronic Open Mic Night, he played an improvised set that was beset by technical issues. He also released an early bandcamp only version of the album The Fraser Syndrome with the full release planned for 2024. He also played the York Electronic Open Mic Night on the 15th Nov, you can view the performance here.
October 2023
Sinners Music Records released Gates by Ranzee on the 6th October and on the 7th of Oct Ian spent a great day in Sheffield at Synthfest meeting with old friends and trying out new synthesiser gear, he filmed the day which you can watch here. He and Jane also found time to look at houses in Frome, Somerset.
September 2023
Ian worked on a couple of releases for Sinners Music, the first was an album by American artist Tony Imperatrice with his album Segments was released on the 30th September, Ian also prepared the release of Gates by Australian electronic artist Ranzee which is due out in October.
August 2023
On the 2nd of August Ian & Jane went up to the Edinburgh Fringe festival as reviewers
and produed over 50 Youtube reviews over the month, you can watch their reviews here.
July 2023
On the 7th July Sinners Music Records released Reunited by Andy & Grace, you can listen to it at Sinners Music Records. Ian & Jane have decided to sell their house & studio in East Yorkshire and look for a property in the South West of England and spent some time looking at houses in Wiltshire & Somerset.Ian also visited Gearfest in London on the 15th July
June 2023
Ian spent most of June working on the debut album by electronic duo Andy and Grace, their album Reunited will be out next month on Sinners Music Records.He also played Wonkystuff in York supporting Liminal Haze
May 2023
On the 1st May Sinners Music Records released A Thorassic Lark EP, Ian had digitised and mastered the recording from cassette. A movie of the original recording process was also premiered on Ian's Youtube channel, you can watch it here. Ian also mastered and released for Sinners Music Records the debut album by electronic artist mho, you can hear the album blueprint here. On the 18th of May Ian was invited to perform The Fraser Syndrome live at The Whitby Electronic Music Club, you can watch the full concert here
April 2023
Ian spent most of the month working on the next Sinners Music records release by remastering a cassette EP by the 1990s band Eat the Peach, the 4 track EP is due for release on the 1st May. Ian also prepared a 30 minute video for a forthcoming concert, you can watch it here.
March 2023
The first video from The Fraser Syndrome album premiered on Youtube on the 2nd March, you can watch it here.
Ian performed a last minute set at the EMOM York XIV night on the 1st March, Ian produced a video to go with his performance of Fused Eyelids, you can watch it here.
February 2023
Ian started working on a new album project with David Martin and continued to work on mixing the forthcoming Fraser Syndrome album which will be out in towards the end of 2023.He also worked on The Stray Field album release for Sinners Music - available here.
January 2023
On the 12th of the month Ian was invited to attend the Creating a Sustainable Future for Social Media Content Creation in the UK at the Univeristy of Hudderfield. Ian worked most of January on the Malcolm Oxborrow album release for Sinners Music Records - available here.
Ian spent Christmas in London with family having a lovely time although he did take his latest musical purchase with him, the latest Akai MPC Live 3 groove box which Ian spent some of his time learning over Christmas.
November 2025
Ian went back to his home town of York to review the ASFF film festival, Jason couldn't go so Ian roped in his old friend Steve to help, you can watch all of the videos here.Ian gave a talk for Sound Scotland on the subject of 'Navigating the Online Digital World for Composers & Artists' on the 20th and Look, Stranger! performed for the first time at the Wells EMOM playing three songs including this Talk Talk song.
October 2025
Sinners Music Records released Alignment by The Azimuth Tilt on the 1st Oct. Ian formed a new band Look, Stranger! with singer Louise. The reason the band is called Look,Stranger! is a reference to W H Auden who is from Ian's home town of York and surprise surprise Louise is also from York. Their 1st Gig will be on the 28th Nov at the Wells EMOM.nt intact
September 2025
Ian visited Machina Bristronica again on the 27th & 28th of the month, you can find out what he thought here. He also worked on the debut album of The Azimuth Tilt, which is due for release on the 1st October, Ian produced a couple of videos for Tilt Those Quite Evenings and The Exquisite Space.
August 2025
The month was dominated by Ian & Janes visit and reviews of Edinburgh Fringe Festival, all the videos can be watch here.
July 2025
Ian visited Gearfest in London on the 19th as well as releasing his album 96th Day of the Year.
June 2025
Three editions of Ian & Jason's new podcast Sinners Review landed and can be watched here
May 2025
The early part of the month was spent preparing for the EMOM festival in Leeds on the 17th Ian performed two sets with Jason Cooke as the Wave Prophets, you can watch the performances here. Ian also launched a new website called Sinners Review for all of the reviews, radio shows and Ian & Jasons new Sinners Review Podcast can live, click here to check it out.
April 2025
Ian performed at the Bristol EMOM on the 8th March and spent some of the month in London where he went to a very ropey performance by William Basinski you can check out the video here.
March 2025
The month started with Ian releasing his album In Spite of Everything on the 7th March and on the 22nd he visited the London Synth & Pedal show, you can watch a video of the event here. On the 27th Ian performed at the Bournemouth EMOM which was nearly a disaster, find out what happened here.
February 2025
On 1st Feb Ian headlined at Breezeblock Beats in Frome, you can catch a snippet of the night here. Sinners Music Records also released the Ramshackle album on the 7th Feb and An Endless Sky album on the 28th Feb, Ian and Jason Cooke had a songwriting and production session at Jason's Studio in Bruton. Ian also played the Wells EMOM on the 28th Feb.
January 2025
The month was spent working on the An Endless Sky album for Sinners Music Records, the album is due for release on the 28th February and is an album of short stories with music and sound design by Ian. Ian also prepared for his performance at Breezeblock Beats in Frome on the 1st Feb
December 2024
On 1st December Sinners Music Records released two albums, the debut Christmas album by The Wave Prophets called Frosty and a free to download Seven Deadly Sinners Vol 2. Ian also started work on An Endless Sky an album of strange and Beautiful Words & Music due for release next year.
November 2024
1st November Ian & Sinners Music released mho's 2nd album, you can listen to static display here.
On the 5th Ian went back up to York to review the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, you can watch the reviews here. Ian also released The Fraser Syndrome on all download and streaming sites and there is a fantastic review that you can read here.
October 2024
At the beginning of the month Ian spent a weekend back in Sheffield at Synthfest, you can see the video results here in part 1 & part 2. He also went to Machina Bristronica the following weekend in Bristol and was less than impressed, you can watch his review here. On the 18th Ian played the 2nd Wells Electronic Open Mic Night, you can watch his performance here. The rest of the month was taken up with Mastering and then promoting the next mho album which is due for release on the 1st November, Ian also found time to schedule his streaming solo release of The Fraser Syndrome for the 15th November.
September2024
On the 6th September Ian & Sinners Music released two EMOM York XVII Electronic Open Mic Night compilation albums Side 1 & Side 2.
August 2024
The first part of the month was taken up with filming & reviewing shows at Edinburgh Fringe, Ian & Jane managed to review over 45 shows in 12 days you can view their reviews here. He also managed to have 5.1 million views on his TikTok channel thoughout the month.
July 2024
On the 5th July Ian performed at the Wells Electronic Open Mic Night, you can watch part of his performance here. He also went to GearFest on the 13th July in London to meet up with synth friends and on the 31st July headed up to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe which was a very long 9 hour journey involving 15 different modes of transport, although he did manage to work on some drum loops on his Teenage Engineering OPZ synthesiser.
June 2024
Ian started puting the finishing touches to the next Sinners Music Records release which will be the Nerve Senta album from 1981 this has been a two year project to make this long lost record available again, the release is scheduled for July 26th.
May 2024
On the 7th May Ian and Jane's House contents arrived and Ian had to rush to have the studio up and working so he could finish the dance project started back in February, this work was completed on the 17th May
April 2024
Ian enjoyed his 5 weeks living in london but on the 18th April he and Jane packed their car and drove to their new house in Frome Somerset, Ian documented this in Leaving Yorkshire Part 3, although Ian & Jane's belonging wouldn't arrive for another 3 weeks. Sinners Music Records and all music production stopped for April except the Audiophile Radio Show and Ian's weekly guest appearance on the Synth Geekery Youtube Show which continued.
March 2024
On the 5th March Ian was invited to sing in rehearsal with the reformed Eat the Peach, it was a splendid reunion. The next night 6th March Ian played the York XIII Electronic Open Mic Night, the performances were recorded for a future Sinners Music Records Release, you can listen to Ian's performance here. All of Ian & Jane's belongings were going into storage for 3 months until their new house in Somerset was ready this work was undertaken on the 7th & 8th March with Ian & Jane Leaving East Yorkshire on the 11th and moving in with Family in London for 5 weeks, Ian filmed the process which you can watch here: Leaving Yorkshire Part 1 & Part 2.
February 2024
The Completion date for the sale of Ian's house was agreed to be the 11th March so Ian & Jane started packing everything up, Ian also started working on music for a Dance Project that was to be completed remotely by May although the first two sessions were recorded on the 12th and 14th of February.
January 2024
Ian's house had been sold back in November but the buyer had insisted that the studio should have a new supended floor and fire door and frame, you can watch the details here, so most of the month was taken up with having this work done, Ian cleared the studio put everything into storage so that the sale could go ahead.
December 2023
Sinners Music release the 2nd album by American artist Tony Imperatice Time on the 15th December and Ian also created a free Xmas gift Sinners Music Records compilation album 'Seven Deadly Sinners Vol 1' before heading off to London for a Christmas break, Ian was a guest on the GEOSynths on New Years Eve, you can watch it here.
November 2023
On the 1st November Ian played the Hull Electronic Open Mic Night, he played an improvised set that was beset by technical issues. He also released an early bandcamp only version of the album The Fraser Syndrome with the full release planned for 2024. He also played the York Electronic Open Mic Night on the 15th Nov, you can view the performance here.
October 2023
Sinners Music Records released Gates by Ranzee on the 6th October and on the 7th of Oct Ian spent a great day in Sheffield at Synthfest meeting with old friends and trying out new synthesiser gear, he filmed the day which you can watch here. He and Jane also found time to look at houses in Frome, Somerset.
September 2023
Ian worked on a couple of releases for Sinners Music, the first was an album by American artist Tony Imperatrice with his album Segments was released on the 30th September, Ian also prepared the release of Gates by Australian electronic artist Ranzee which is due out in October.
August 2023
On the 2nd of August Ian & Jane went up to the Edinburgh Fringe festival as reviewers
and produed over 50 Youtube reviews over the month, you can watch their reviews here.
July 2023
On the 7th July Sinners Music Records released Reunited by Andy & Grace, you can listen to it at Sinners Music Records. Ian & Jane have decided to sell their house & studio in East Yorkshire and look for a property in the South West of England and spent some time looking at houses in Wiltshire & Somerset.Ian also visited Gearfest in London on the 15th July
June 2023
Ian spent most of June working on the debut album by electronic duo Andy and Grace, their album Reunited will be out next month on Sinners Music Records.He also played Wonkystuff in York supporting Liminal Haze
May 2023
On the 1st May Sinners Music Records released A Thorassic Lark EP, Ian had digitised and mastered the recording from cassette. A movie of the original recording process was also premiered on Ian's Youtube channel, you can watch it here. Ian also mastered and released for Sinners Music Records the debut album by electronic artist mho, you can hear the album blueprint here. On the 18th of May Ian was invited to perform The Fraser Syndrome live at The Whitby Electronic Music Club, you can watch the full concert here
April 2023
Ian spent most of the month working on the next Sinners Music records release by remastering a cassette EP by the 1990s band Eat the Peach, the 4 track EP is due for release on the 1st May. Ian also prepared a 30 minute video for a forthcoming concert, you can watch it here.
March 2023
The first video from The Fraser Syndrome album premiered on Youtube on the 2nd March, you can watch it here.
Ian performed a last minute set at the EMOM York XIV night on the 1st March, Ian produced a video to go with his performance of Fused Eyelids, you can watch it here.
February 2023
Ian started working on a new album project with David Martin and continued to work on mixing the forthcoming Fraser Syndrome album which will be out in towards the end of 2023.He also worked on The Stray Field album release for Sinners Music - available here.
January 2023
On the 12th of the month Ian was invited to attend the Creating a Sustainable Future for Social Media Content Creation in the UK at the Univeristy of Hudderfield. Ian worked most of January on the Malcolm Oxborrow album release for Sinners Music Records - available here.
