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The Story Begins.
Sunrise over a classic neon bridge, hopeful and bright, leading into a future that still feels worth reaching.
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THE VIOLET GHOST
The Violet Ghost
Haunted synthwave, darksynth, and neon-soaked love letters to the '80s.
The Violet Ghost is a Minnesota-based synthwave / darksynth project that blends retro horror, cyberpunk romance, cinematic pop, and real-time visual technology.
We make music for haunted arcades, midnight drives, chrome skylines, vampire proms, and 80s movies that never existed - but should have.
HAUNTED ARCADESMIDNIGHT DRIVESCHROME SKYLINES
MUSIC
Music
Latest Single:
- Shape Shifter - spotify
Latest Album:
DETAILS TBA
Next shows:
- Zora Darling 2026
- Crypticon 2026
For booking, custom events, or soundtrack work: WORK WITH US
WORK WITH US
WORK WITH US
Custom soundtracks. Live synthwave spectacles. Real-time VFX. One-of-none neon fantasies.
The Violet Ghost creates custom music, cinematic event performances, and experimental tech-driven visuals for events, games, films, brands, and strange beautiful ideas that need their own soundtrack.
- Need a private synthwave spectacle?
- A custom soundtrack?
- A live show with original visuals?
- A real-time VFX system for a stage, screen, installation, or launch?
Tell us what you are building.
NOT A BAND. A WHOLE DAMN MOVIE.
The Violet Ghost creates custom synthwave spectacles for people who want their event to feel like a scene nobody forgets.
Most events are planned down to the napkin.
The florals. the food. The lighting. The seating chart. The table numbers. Every detail is debated, revised, and obsessed over.
But ask anyone about the last wedding, gala, launch party, or private event they attended.
They probably do not remember the appetizers.
They probably do not remember the exact shade of the linens.
They probably do not remember what color the flowers were.
They remember how it felt.
YOUR RETRO-FUTURISTIC FEVER DREAM
A one-of-none synthwave performance world for unforgettable set-piece moments.
Every neon dream begins with a private concept call. You bring the occasion. We build the world around it.
Maybe you want full gritty 1980's midnight-movie energy, leather jackets and sunglasses included.
Maybe you want chrome, lasers, smoke, and cyberpunk dystopia.
Maybe you want a glamorous neon underworld, a romantic vampire prom, a haunted arcade, a futuristic corporate rebellion, or something that feels like a scene from a movie that never existed.
If it lives somewhere between synthwave, darkwave, cinematic pop, retro horror, cyberpunk, glam, neon noir, and electric fantasy - we can build it.
And if your event needs something outside our lane, we will tell you directly - and point you toward a better fit wherever we can.
YOUR CUSTOM SOUNDTRACK
Once the creative direction is locked, The Violet Ghost composes the emotional arc of the event.
This includes:
- the sound
- the staging
- the visual language
- the performance moments
- the costumes
- how the room should feel at every major beat
Then, we compose original music around that world.
Not a playlist.
Not a generic set.
Not AI slop punched in by someone who couldn't hold a tune to save their life.
A custom soundtrack designed for your exact moment.
The result: a one-of-none experience your guests cannot compare to anything else - because it was not pulled from a catalog.
It was made for you.
- Your entrance
- Your reveal
- Your afterparty
- Your legend
Your night.
YOUR EVENT, WHITE GLOVE
A month before your event, you receive the locked experience plan.
This includes what happens, when it happens, what the performance moments are, when the music begins, how the energy builds, and what the audience will feel at each stage.
After approval, The Violet Ghost coordinates with the relevant production and event teams for load-in, load-out, technicals, timing, and execution.
You do not have to become a stage manager.
You show up to the world we built.
And your guests step into something they will never forget.
THE ULTIMATE NEON DREAM INCLUDES
- A private creative concept call.
- Custom event worldbuilding and performance direction.
- Original music composed by hand for the event.
- A cinematic synthwave performance designed around the emotional arc of your night.
- Costume, staging, and aesthetic direction.
- Coordination with your planner, venue, production team / event staff.
- A locked, no-stress show schedule before the event.
- A one-of-none experience that does not exist anywhere else.
INVESTMENT
The Ultimate Neon Dream package begins at $100,000 depending on scope, location, and final production scale.
This is not for clients who just want "a band" or "some music".
This is for clients who want more than entertainment.
It is for weddings, private events, corporate launches, luxury parties, and high-impact experiences where the performance is not an accessory.
It is the centerpiece.
To begin, request a private concept call.
OTHER WAYS TO WORK WITH THE VIOLET GHOST
Custom Event Performance
For clients who want the Violet Ghost world and live performance without a fully custom original soundtrack.
This can include curated set design, adapted music, covers, themed performance direction, and a custom event experience at a smaller scale.
Custom events begin at $10,000+.
Original Soundtrack Licensing
For games, films, trailers, campaigns, immersive experiences, and other media projects that need original Violet Ghost music.
Full custom licenses begin at $50,000+, depending on scope, usage, exclusivity, deliverables, and rights.
Inquire for details.
Traditional Booking
For standard live performances, venue appearances, festivals, private parties, and smaller-scale gigs.
For traditional booking, reach out with the event date, location, budget, audience size, and technical requirements.
REQUEST A PRIVATE CONCEPT CALL
Tell us what you are building.
Tell us the world you want your guests to enter.
The Violet Ghost will tell you what is possible.
Then we make the night unforgettable.
LP 001 MELANCHOLIC APPARITIONS
Eleven haunted dioramas.
A scrollable album map opens around the cabinet: each song becomes a 3D point of interest, each marker hovers above its scene, and the camera flies the route like a haunted synthwave ride.
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Always and Forever.
A quiet forest path bends into an infinity loop where two polygon wolves chase each other through soft neon.
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Sex in The 80s.
A single arcade cabinet opens into a disco floor, its screen holding a slow rotating mirrorball.
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Synth Station One.
A polygon console rests beneath a retro TV in a sparse living room while a boot logo warms up the room.
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Neon Apocalypse.
Blight stands in a scorched clearing, arms raised, pulling a meteor toward distant mushroom clouds.
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Vlad the Impaler.
A dark castle looms on a hill while the gate path pulses like a runway dance floor.
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Feeling Again.
Sunset returns to the castle, quieter now, with a secret room revealing an ancient truth.
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Necromancer.
The castle lifts into a void, mutating into a darker synthwave horror relic wrapped in runes.
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The Shoulder of Orion.
Constellations hang over nebula haze while ghost sprites drift between gold and cyan star lines.
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When Souls Collide.
Two suns lock into each other's orbit, collide, and pulse gently inside a bent gravity well.
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The Story Never Ends.
Behind the castle, a graveyard opens into a neon disco floor where the final ghosts keep dancing.
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