King of My Castle


"King of My Castle" is a song by American electronic music producer Chris Brann under his Wamdue Project alias, with vocals by Gaelle Adisson. It was originally released in 1997 as a downtempo song, but became a worldwide club hit in 1999 when it was remixed by house producer Roy Malone and featured on the 1998 album Program Yourself. The song peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs. Outside the United States, the song topped the charts in the United Kingdom and peaked within the top ten of the charts in at least 12 other countries, including Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway.
The song's title and lyrics reference Sigmund Freud's theory of the unconscious which holds that the human ego is not free and is instead controlled by its own unconscious Id ; in Freud's own words, "das Ich ist nicht Herr im eigenen Hause". Hence, one of the song's two music videos consists of footage from the 1995 anime film Ghost in the Shell, where people with cyborg implants have their actions controlled against their will by a hacker criminal known in the film as "puppetmaster".
"King of My Castle" was re-released in 2009 but was available on YouTube from November 2008 and includes new remixes by Rowald Steyn, Mischa Daniels and Armin van Buuren.

Track listing

CD single
  1. "King of My Castle" – 3:40
  2. "King of My Castle" – 3:11
Maxi CD
  1. "King of My Castle" – 3:40
  2. "King of My Castle" – 3:11
  3. "King of My Castle" – 3:40
  4. "King of My Castle" – 4:56
  5. "King of My Castle" – 7:58
  6. "King of My Castle" – 7:31
  7. "King of My Castle" – 6:34

    Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Original version
Chart Peak
position

2009 version
Chart Peak
position

Year-end charts

Original version
Chart Position
Austria 32
Belgium 36
Belgium 14
Europe 15
France 27
Germany 10
Netherlands 21
Netherlands 24
Switzerland 37
UK Singles 28

2009 version
Chart Position
Netherlands 82

Certifications