9 Geeky Musicians You’ve Never Heard Of

6. The Musical Ghost

When we consider the history of updating music genres with modern taste and technology, Electro-swing is a curious outlier.

Taking swing tracks from the '20s and '30s, with their overengineered big-band style, and giving them the base and pace of modern electric is a bold move, as unexpectedly effective as it is difficult to pull-off.

The Musical Ghost understands this, and it certainly hasn't stopped them. Their work is based around covers of games and shows, with everything from golden age Disney to Cuphead and even the Gravity Falls opening theme. Their channel is a wealth of delightfully unexpected geeky music.

A few meme-songs even rear their heads, with their cover of We Are Number One being undeniably good, no matter how much I'd like to say otherwise.

Anyone who didn't quite get all the spookiness out of their bones this Halloween would also appreciate their Halloween mixes. In particular their cover of Spooky Scary Skeletons which, despite being a meme revived from the dark age of audio-visual technology, has been made into a solid and memorable track paired with some frankly impressive visual work.

Contributor

My passion for all things Sci Fi goes back to my earliest days, when old VHS copies of Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet gripped my tiny mind with their big, noisy vehicles and terrifying puppets. I'd like to say my taste got more refined over the years, but between the Warhammer, Space Dandy and niche Star Wars EU books, perhaps it just got broader. I've enjoyed games of all calibre since I figured out that dice weren't just for eating, and have written prose ever since I was left unsupervised with some crayons next to a white wall. I got away with it by calling it "schoolwork" for as long as I could, and university helped me keep the charade going a while longer. Since my work began to get published, it's made all those long hours repainting the walls seem worth it.