Treasure Fingers is a sole man act from Atlanta, Georgia. Down between all the rappers and hip hop artists, one of the most exciting individuals in Electronic Dance music has emerged. Ashley Jones, as his mother named him, is a DJ/Producer who has been making rounds in the international club scene and turning out plenty of studio work for a long time, but he has found new light as Treasure Fingers. So much so that he has been asked to remix plenty of work by other artists. So keep a look out for those. Last year, his debut track, “Cross The Dancefloor”, was heard everywhere and remixed by more people than you can imagine.
.Treasure Fingers – Cross The Dancefloor
“Cross The Dancefloor” is a soft styled, bouncy electro jam with vocals laced through a vocoder. It’s unabashedly catchy with a multitude of influences, from Italo disco, to electro house, to the subtleties of rock. In its vocal simplicity, it is only tinged with back and forth boy-girl vocals that say, with a sly innocence “Let me see you move it, shake it cross the dancefloor,” and “Hey boy watch me move it, shake it cross the dancefloor.”
.Chromeo Remix
Chromeo, the wonder boys of electro-tinged disco. They bring their immense signature sound to this track. Dave-1 nicely adds a spoken intro to the song that relates to the title of the track, but builds a story before the original kicks in. Chromeo leaves most of the song untouched, particularly in keeping the mid tempo pace. They throw in funky synths, that makes this a little more dancey in a groovy sort of way. The duo also layer on soft disco beats, only a whisp, and slight drum breaks via cow bell sounding drums.
.Lifelike Remix
Lifelike makes “Cross The Dancefloor” a much more powerful track. It’s heavier, due to the thick drum beats, frequently more cut up, principally the vocals in the beginning, which I particularly like. Though slightly faster, it doesn’t deviate too far from the roots of the original. Featured nicely in the middle is a piece where Lifelike removes all music, save for splashes of an 80s synth cymbal, and the boy-girl vocals play back and forth, all cut up and syncopated, before everything jumps back in again. The main riff to this song is a piano-esque tune that bounces nicely throughout. If I were throwing a party, this is the remix I would play.
.Alex Metric Remix
This is a very cool, sleek and futuristically styled mix. The vocoder laced words are replaced by aggressive, full on robotic vocals. It sounds exactly what the robots in Terminator would sound like if they were forcing human prisoners to dance. Metric’s mix deviates menacingly from the original, adding his own funk filled, slapping bass lines, distorted and cut up synths, all feverishly fast paced.
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