{"id":1427,"date":"2025-10-29T22:17:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:38:51","slug":"now-thats-what-i-call-stuarts-favourite-music-94-mark-shreeve-storm-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/uncategorized\/now-thats-what-i-call-stuarts-favourite-music-94-mark-shreeve-storm-column\/","title":{"rendered":"Now That\u2019s What I Call Stuart\u2019s Favourite Music 94 \u2013 \u00a0Mark Shreeve \u2013 Storm Column"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"782\" height=\"904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1428\" style=\"width:234px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-5.png 782w, https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-5-260x300.png 260w, https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-5-768x888.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a gem of a track from Great Yarmouth\u2019s very own electronic and synth legend, Mark Shreeve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark who, you ask? Don\u2019t worry \u2014 you\u2019re not alone! I hadn\u2019t heard of him either until I stumbled across \u201cStorm Column\u201d about sixteen years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fun fact: Shreeve actually co-wrote Samantha Fox\u2019s 1980s hit \u201cTouch Me (I Want Your Body)\u201d, and even worked alongside Christopher Franke from Tangerine Dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStorm Column\u201d comes from his 1985 album Legion, which I only discovered by accident while watching a random YouTube video that happened to use the track in the background. Sadly, the album didn\u2019t make much of a splash when it was released \u2014 but that\u2019s a real shame, because it\u2019s packed with some fantastic tracks that any fan of classic electronic instrumental music will absolutely love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tragically, Mark passed away in 2022 at just 65. But his legacy \u2014 and his incredible talent of using analogue synths and sequencers \u2014 continues to inspire anyone who appreciates the magic of electronic music, myself included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8S_Q463V2ZI?si=cE6iIzw3f1vC3ZGD\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a gem of a track from Great Yarmouth\u2019s very own electronic and synth legend, Mark &hellip; <a title=\"Now That\u2019s What I Call Stuart\u2019s Favourite Music 94 \u2013 \u00a0Mark Shreeve \u2013 Storm Column\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/uncategorized\/now-thats-what-i-call-stuarts-favourite-music-94-mark-shreeve-storm-column\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now That\u2019s What I Call Stuart\u2019s Favourite Music 94 \u2013 \u00a0Mark Shreeve \u2013 Storm Column<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1431,1375,1365,1429,1428,1346,1430,1354],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1431","tag-electronic","tag-favourite","tag-legion","tag-mark-shreeve","tag-music","tag-storm-column","tag-synth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}