Bodyjack Live Sets & Radio Shows

Bodyjack is back on Threads with a 2-hour assault on the senses. Loads of exclusives, new music, tracks from the vaults plus some unreleased cuts from the man himself...

Knox & Hawkins - 12th Planet (Extended Mix)
Maurizio - T.T.-F.F
Acid Jesus - Radium
ItaloJohnson - 14B2
Bodyjack - Break It Down
Talismann - Mars Wars
Bodyjack - Untitled Sketch (Unreleased)
Mark Broom - Funked Up
Robert Hood - The Feel
Steve Bicknell - Why? For Whom (B1)
Bodyjack - Blaster (Unreleased)
Jackmate - Dehydrated
Never Mind - White Form (Bodyjack Edit)
Chris Finke - Hello Please
Bizarre Inc - X-Static
Bodyjack - Everybody (Unreleased)
Ekman - Fuck Your Rock and Jack Your Funk
Phonopsia - Nuba Tuba
Matthew Dear - Anger Management
TNT - Analogue Acid Project #2 (B2)
Apogee - Inside Above
Knox & Hawkins - I Don't Want To
Neil Landstrumm - She-Ra Extra Speaker Pop
Low End Activist - Get Dark (Instrumental)
Anodyne - Lockdown 3.2X
Polyop - Do I Really Give a Fuck, I'm Just a Square Wave
Radioactive Man - Unsaid
Ferri Borbás - Rex Club
London Modular Alliance - Head of the Keeper
Haze - Shock Leader (Unreleased)
Maelstrom - Maalish
Burrito Boys - C*ntis
The Hacker - The Rave Scenario
Underground Resistance - Acid Fog (The Mystery)
Chaos AD - Mind War Electro

Bodyjack - Threads Radio (March 2021)

Here's my first full-length DJ mix as Bodyjack that I got asked to put together for the crew at URB.com  I wanted to give a taste of what i'm about and had fun putting it together. Here's what URB had to say about it:

"This week’s podcast is from the badman side of one Chris Finke, under the guise of Bodyjack. If you’ve heard the name before, it’s surely because of the noise this UK producer’s been making fairly recently on Rinse FM and BBC Radio 1 (courtesy of Pete Tong and B Traits). You’ve also probably heard his tunes out in the dance worldwide, making waves with his own label (titled Bodyjack, duh) and his forthcoming release on Hypercolour (“Feel Real Good”). And while Finke has had his hand in production for some time now, Bodyjack presents a take on the producer that takes elements of his gruffness and smashes into an amalgamation of garage, house, and soul, with a big splash of jack. You know you want to dance already, and you haven’t heard the mix yet. Well, here’s the mix along with the tracklist; happy jackin’."

http://www.urb.com/2013/09/12/bodyjack-exclusive-mix/

Tracklist

01. Intro – “First Impressions Of Bodyjack”
02. Bodyjack – I Wanna Be – Bodyjack 
03. Todd Terry – Jungle Hot (Alternative Mix)
04. Secret Weapon!
05. Mateo & Matos – Release The Rhythm (George T Mix) – Glasgow Underground
06. Dusty – Rise For Love – AUS
07. Bodyjack Meets A Totally Enormous Extinct Lion Called Gerd That Eats Everything
08. Springboard – Make Some Noise – RJM
09. A Guy Called Gerald – Blow Your House Down (Chris Finke Remix) – Split Music
10. Pangaea – Mission Creep – Hadal
11. Plasticman – The Search – ARMY
12. Ghostek – No Way Out – Subsquared
13. Guised – From The Gutter – Unreleased
14. Secret Weapon!
15. G.O.D. – Unlimited (Todd Terry Dub / Bodyjack Reshuffle) – G.O.D
16. KMA Productions – Cape Fear (Bodyjack Reshuffle) – Urban Beat
17. Jameson – Slow Jam – Lifestyle Records
18. Zomby – It’s Time – 4AD
19. Cloud 9 – Bugged – White Label
20. Bodyjack – The Widowmaker – Hypercolour
21. Bleaching Agent – Akplenc – Unreleased
22. Renato Cohen vs Bodyjack – Suddenly Funky – Unreleased
23. Bodyjack – Feel Real Good – Hypercolour
24. Disco Nihilist – Midnight To St. John – DBA Dubs
25. Plasticman – The Rush – ARMY
26. DJ Deeon (Cant Remember What It’s Called!)
27. DJ Deeon (Can’t Remember What Its Called!)
28. Paul Johnson – I Want U To Ride me – Dance Mania
29. Bodyjack – Bodyjack – Bodyjack
30. Traxmen / Paul Johnson – Playing With A Rubberband – Dance Mania
31. Truncate – Modify – Truncate
32. Gingy – Bordello – Turbo
33. Parris Mitchell – Climb The Walls – Dance Mania
34. Julien H Mulder – Dold Maskin – Midnight Shift
35. Aden – Luft – Ultramajic
36. Julien H Mulder – Midnight Shift
37. Posthuman – Helioshock – RSK
38. Adam Marshall – Heavy Metals – New Kanada

Bodyjack - URB Podcast September 2013

I made my Bodyjack debut at the sold out High Definition Warehouse Festival last week, closing out the Pulse Radio stage. Here's my set minus the last 30 mins which for some reason didn't record...

Big shout to the High Definition crew who really pulled out the stops with the production and sound in there (great to see a UK dance music festival going that extra mile!), and also James and the Pulse crew for having me along. 

Hope you like this one - it's pretty full on and goes all over the place. Let me know what you think!

Bodyjack Live @ High Definition Festival, 2nd November 2013

This is the mix I did last year for Mixmag's podcast series. Not much to say about this other than it's full of bangers ;) I dropped some bits of mine that ended up appearing on BodyTrax Vol 2, plus loads of other edits and "stuff". 

Bodyjack - Mixmag Podcast [March 2014]

This is the mix I did for @DJMag as a follow up to my interview with them in the May magazine. More fun and games on this, inc. an early version of "Get Raw" which eventually came out on the Throwdown EP this year.

Bodyjack - DJ Mag Podcast [June 2014]

With over ten years of touring, DJing and producing under his belt already, it’s a pretty safe bet that if you’re into techno music you’ll already know a little about the man behind Bodyjack, Chris Finke. Having recently retired from his government name in music, his Bodyjack alias’ main focus seems to simply be living up to its name with Finke writing and releasing physical and irrepressibly catchy music under the moniker on labels like Hypercolour, Unknown To The Unknown and his own self-titled imprint. As a resident at Birmingham’s Atomic Jam and a UK DMC finalist Finke’s already got a brimming history, but it’s very much the future he was concerned with when we caught up with him earlier today to discuss his music, the Chicago indebted mixtape he made us and his upcoming appearance in the Dance Mania hosted Room Two on Friday 20th March.

Interview With Bodyjack: http://www.fabriclondon.com/blog/view/catching-up-with-bodyjack-his-dance-mania-inspired-mix

Tracklist:

Bodyjack - Bodyjack
+ Paul Johnson - Let Me See You Butterfly
Paul Johnson - I'm A Freak
Dj Deeon ???
Drew Sky's Freakshow - Freaky 2nite (Drew's Mix)
DJ Deeon - Ride This M.F.
Bodyjack - BodyTrax 2
+ The Traxxmen - In Yo Mouf (Oral Sex Mix)
Gant Man - Acid Party (Bodyjack Edit)
DJ Deeon - Work This D!ck
Paul Johnson - Speech Impediment
Paul Johnson - Take A Licking (And Keep On Ticking)
Traxmen - Playing With A Rubberband
Bodyjack - BodyTrax 3
Bodyjack - Brock Out
Paul Johnson - I Want You To Ride Me
DJ Funk - I'm So Hi
DJ Funk - Pump It (Techno Mix)
The PJ Project - Nice N Fast
Tyree Cooper - TXC
Bodyjack - Shake That Ass (Vocal Mix)
The PJ Project - Weak

Bodyjack Vs Chicago Mix For Fabric [March 2015]

It was a huge honour to be asked to play alongside 2 of my musical influences (Tyree Cooper & Parris Mitchell) and representing the legendary Dance Mania Records label in the @Mixmag Lab. I wanted to do something a bit different to what they were doing but still keeping that raw Dance Mania energy! Here's the the video of the whole session as it was broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt6b5kyXT4w

Bodyjack @ Dance Mania Mixmag Lab [March 2015]

Tracklist and full article: www.factmag.com/2015/06/08/fact-mix-499-bodyjack/

We’re one mix away from 500 – and it’s time to jack.

Chris Finke has been an important part of the UK techno scene since the early 2000s, releasing music from Mark Broom, DJ Urban, Victor Simonelli and more on his Flux Recordings label and co-running London’s Split raves with Ben Sims (as well as the Split Radio Show). As a producer, he’s steadily released singles and EPs of his own music, mostly on Flux but with diversions to labels like Mote-Evolver and Hidden Recordings. In short, he knows how to make people sweat.

In 2013, he dropped the Finke name to focus on a pair of aliases: Bodyjack and He/aT. As He/at, he’s self-released ripping techno records while also holding down a residency at crucial UK techno night Atomic Jam, but it’s been his Bodyjack work that has been most rewarding. As well as setting up a small ring of Bodyjack-related labels, he’s released music on Hypercolour, Unknown to the Unknown, Leftroom and Ultramajic – all labels that share Bodyjack’s love of house and techno music that’s educated and authoritative but totally unpretentious.

That’s also the case with his FACT mix. It draws from the gods (Johnson, Deeon, Tyrell, Falcon and, at one point, Jeremy Sylvester and Mike Millrain’s G.O.D. alias – see what we did there) and the best of the current crop (Peverelist, Kowton, DJ Haus), and is very clearly the work of someone who’s bought dance records for years, but it’s never less than a shitload of fun, with martial snares, organ riffs and instructions to work it all over the place. Bodyjack’s latest release, the self-released Throwdown EP, is out now.

TRACKLIST & FEATURE

Bodyjack - FACT Mix [June 2015]

Here's a 2 hour show I just did for Rinse FM....all sorts of stuff on here including exclusive edits and demos from myself and some of my favourite producers right now...

Bodyjack Show - Rinse FM [Sept 2015]

I've been meaning to do a series of mixes like this for ages. I toyed with the idea of doing them by year/genre etc but it's been done, so I'm just going in randomly. I wont be playing the "obvious" big tracks and will be focussing on mainly 1991 and 1992, certainly for the first few ones, taking in Belgium, Holland etc alongside the UK. Oh on a serious note...no "happy hardcore".

Bodyjack - Music For Raves (Chapter 1)

This is a live recording of my support set for Leftfield on their "Leftism 22" tour at the Manchester o2 Apollo. It was the second show of the weekend and the set I felt I really got to grips with, so I was happy that it also worked when I played it back. It's not a peak time set by any means, and its one of the rare times I got the chance to play a load of my favourite electronic records together in a huge venue for a really receptive crowd. So if you were there, thanks for listening and I hope I opened that very special night up in a respectable fashion! I cant post the tracklist here because it will get taken down, but head over to my Facebook page as I will post it there...

Bodyjack @ Leftfield "Leftism 22" Tour, Manchester Apollo [May 2017]

Here's the first of my monthly shows on Radar Radio. Load of upfront promos, hidden gems , plus some lighthearted chat and slight of hand card tricks from me...Full track list is up here: https://goo.gl/DiTa5R

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Bodyjack Show @ Radar Radio January 2018

All sorts of stuff this month from new and unreleased tracks to some killer older stuff!! Thanks to everyone for the music!!
Full track list is up here: https://goo.gl/yCtx74

Bodyjack Show @ Radar Radio February 2018

Here's my Radar Radio show for March! Slightly housier overall this month, but all sorts of fun promos, lost gems, plus some edits of mine i've only played in the clubs...
https://goo.gl/tsFkG8

Bodyjack Show @ Radar Radio March 2018

A special show this month - the first part is new music and the last 90 mins is a recording of my support show for Leftfield on their "Leftism" tour from 2017, and has a load of my favourite electronic tracks in from all angles. Tracklist :https://goo.gl/jgWZsD

Bodyjack Show @ Radar Radio April 2018

I'm really pleased to be back on the radio with a monthly show (every 3rd Saturday of the month), and my guest for the first one is "the UK's finest" Mark Broom (@beardman) who drops a special "bleeps & bass" mix! Lots of old techno records in my mix, plus a couple of exclusives and some "informative" chat along the way....

Bodyjack Show w/Mark Broom - Threads June 2020

Back for my 2nd show on Threads Radio with my special guest @dance_system in the mix. Loads of fresh beats, rare gems & edits from us both at TOTALLY opposite ends of the spectrum, plus some “informative chat” along the way...

Bodyjack Show w/Dance System - Threads August 2020

Bodyjack returns to Threads with guest @Truncate on the guest mix at midnight! This month, the UK badman is going out on a limb as he serves up a special selection of pure rhythm & drum tracks for 90 mins, before LA's favourite son Truncate closes out the show with a tear-up mega mix of some of his favourites. This is not to be missed  ⚔️

Bodyjack "Rhythm Tracks" Mix Tracklist: 
Benjamin Lew & Steven Brown - Dans Les Jardins
Kim Bilir - Clubtracks #3
Little Louie Vega presents The Missile (Kendog Beats)
Pantytec - A Glimpse
Abuser - 001 (B3)
Dolo Percussion	Dolo 5
Kim Bilir - Clubtracks #5 
Todd Terry Project - Da Bango (Beats)
Trackman - Wickety Wack
Ricardo Villalobos - Spritzcussion (RV GM Sample Mix)
Adam - Wild Beast
Phase - Katino II
User - 02 (A1)
User - 02 (A2)
Earth People - Dance (Beats Mix)
Tikkle - Bubbles 
Dose Of Paradise - People (Beats)
Bodyjack - Bodydrums #1
Baby Pop - Battle Drums
DJ Funk - Knock Knock
Thomas Bangalter - Spinal Beats
Robbie Rivera - Feel This
Santos Rodriguez - Road To Rio (B1)
Bodyjack - The Streisand Effect
Jeff Mills - Masterplan
PTA - INK (Beatapella)
Happa - Beat Of The Drum
Deadbeat - Berghain Drum Jack (2015 Edit)
Birdland - Can You Dance To My Edit (Chris Finke Dub)
Mijail, Victor Vera - Jungler
Kaotic Chemistry - Drumtrip
Electronome - Untitled
MMM aka Erik & Fiedel - Grungig 
Victor Simonelli - Latin Impressions
E-Klektik - Macarana Madness

Bodyjack w/ Truncate "Rhythm Tracks Special" Threads Radio (Aug 20)

Bodyjack returns to Threads for another special showcase: this time it's one of his specialist subjects 91-93 Rave!. A proper throwdown taking in everything from Belgian techno to UK rave, through to early jungle and darkside. He's digging deep into the vaults for this one, so get locked and loaded!

Bodyjack "Rave Special" Threads Radio (Nov 20)

Bodyjack pulls off a Christmas Cracker of a solo show this month: a 2 hour Detroit techno special featuring stellar tracks from Underground Resistance, Robert Hood, Jeff Mills, Kenny Larkin, Carl Craig, The Martian/Red Planet, Drexciya and E Dancer alongside a whole host of lesser known gems and rarities. Essential listening for the Festive Season!

Bodyjack's "Christmas In Detroit"  - Threads Radio (Dec 20)

Over the last few years, Bodyjack (aka Chris Finke) has been confidently carving a path very much his own through the stormy and unpredictable waters of electronic music, and refreshingly doing it on his terms. 

From the outset, his early productions on Hypercolour UTTU and Ultramajic showed incredible depth and dance floor sensibilities, frequently mastering that difficult line between genres that producers seek, but often fall short of (and often sounding contrived when trying). His vinyl-only label series “Bodytrax” (which he proudly runs with the Clone.nl crew in Holland) is an ongoing outlet for these productions; one that ebbs and flows through his passion for creating what he feels like organically and not what’s being hyped at the time. Drawing on his years of experience as a DJ and not being one to settle simply for “getting the job done”, his output is renowned for being incredibly effective and standing out in the sets of DJs the world over, with his music consistently featured on Radio 1 shows and essential mixes. In 2016, he dropped his critically “Cobra Effect EP” on DEXT which was championed by the likes of Black Madonna and Jackmaster, which led to an invitation by legendary pioneers Leftfield to remix "Song Of Life" on their historic 22 Year Anniversary re-release of “Leftism” in 2017. He also explored collaborations including “Hotshot” with long-time supporter Paul Woolford aka Special Request, and his new “Duel Series” which kicked off in late 2019 with Berlin legend Fiedel.

On the performance side, his early days saw him as a DMC DJ Championship competitor, and then cutting his teeth worldwide as a techno DJ (including a residency at the UK's largest and most respected parties “Atomic Jam” in Birmingham). His lifelong obsession with seeking out and collecting music has also paid off in spades in the form of his vast record collection, which he explores with mixes and shows he has produced for the likes of Radio 1, FACT, Mixmag, DJ Mag, and Rinse FM. Armed with these experiences and credentials, he is known as a technically skilled and incredibly intuitive DJ, taking risks where they count and never playing the same set twice. Tapping into his love affair with music and working the floor, he prides himself in being able to play pretty much anywhere, be it techno, electro & EBM in the main rooms of Berghain or Fabric, jacking Chicago and acid house alongside the originators in the “Dancemania Mixmag Lab”, or electronica & beyond supporting Leftfield on their Leftism 22 UK arena UK arena tour in 2017. 


Bodyjack Links
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/bodyjack 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thisisbodyjack
Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrisfinke
Instagram: http://instagram.com/chrisfinke
Bookings: simon@thefinaagency.com 

Bodyjack Discography
Fiedel & Bodyjack – Duel Series I [BodyTrax]
Bodyjack – Twice Bitten EP [BodyTrax]
Bodyjack - Nataraja EP - [DEXT]
Bodyjack & Special Request – Hotshot [DEXT]
Bodyjack  - Cobra Effect EP [DEXT]
Bodyjack – I’m Here All Week EP [BodyTrax]
Bodyjack – BodyTrax Vol. 3 [BodyTrax]
Bodyjack v Soundbwoy Killah EP [Bodyjack]
Bodyjack – BodyTrax Vol. 2 [BodyTrax]
Bodyjack – Brock Out EP [UTTU]
Bodyjack – BodyTrax Vol. 1 [BodyTrax]
Bodyjack - Bodyjack EP [Bodyjack]
Bodyjack – Feel Real Good [Hypercolour]

Remixes
Leftfield – Song Of Life (Bodyjack Remix) [Leftism 22] - Sony
Chambray – Untitled (Bodyjack Remix) – Ultramajic 
Oli Furness – Crash Gordon (Bodyjack Remix) – Music Is Love
Dubspeeka – Floorshow (Bodyjack's DEXT VIP) – DEXT
Montel – Gotta Be Down (Bodyjack Remix) – ALiVE 

Bookings: simon@thefinaagency.com
Other enqs: lisa@thenightisyoung.net