Turns out the Konami Code was a dance move just waiting to happen all along. Tristan Grant, AKA Wolf Castle bridges the gap between video games, quarantine, and dance crazes your grandma was into with his new single, “Cha Cha.”
The two-time ECMA-nominated Mi’kmaq rapper from Pabineau First Nation, New Brunswick has turned out a stay-at-home anthem, crafted specially for a little chair-dancing while you level up over quarantine.
Wolf Castle, like many musicians over the last few months, has found himself experiencing bouts of creativity during his downtime. He says “Cha Cha” was the result of trying to stay productive while working from home and balancing the work/life ratio. Specifically, he says he managed by “spending a week sleeping until noon, playing video games all night and watching an endless stream of movies and television.”
“It was the last song I made for the new EP, Gold Rush. I was having one of those days in the middle of April where I wasn’t being productive at all, just lazing around the house, watching old Nickelodeon cartoons and playing GameCube – basically re-living my childhood,” says Wolf Castle about his new song.
“It was midnight or something when I was cycling through beats and this one came on that just grabbed my attention immediately. Suddenly I’m writing this song kind of stream-of-consciousness about what I was up to that week and how quarantine is making all of us re-assess things. Out of those factors, ‘Cha Cha’ was born. I wrote it in an hour, recorded it the next morning and boom – I had a new song for the project.”
“Cha Cha” is the first single to be released from Wolf Castle’s upcoming 6-track EP, titled Gold Rush. The album is expected to be released on July 10, 2020.