This week in the studio, I put together the second of two recent bootlegs for my forthcoming sets (in particular the huge 80,000 capacity Monster Massive event I'm playing on Saturday in Los Angeles). It's a trancey version of Radioactive by Kings of Leon. As a DJ, it's very important to have your own exclusive versions of tracks, and I've been making my own unauthorised remixes of big tunes for my sets for the last few years. Some of them are mash-ups, but the majority are set to brand new music. It was a very fiddly exercise, as (unlike most dance music) the BPM of the K.O.L. original wavers all over the place, making it a complicated exercise to lay over a new musical backdrop.

Gig-wise, after this Friday's BBC Radio 1 show I return to my residency at the Gallery @ the Ministry of Sound in London. I've not played for a couple of months, and there's something particularly special about spinning in your hometown (and not merely because I have an unusually easy journey back home afterwards...). I'm very excited, and equally stoked about flying to LA the following morning for Monster Massive, which is a huge part of the annual dance music calendar on the US West Coast.

If you missed the show last week then there's still time to listen on the iPlayer. Sweden's up & comer Marcus Schossow did the DJ Relay (ahead of his debut on the Essential Mix last Friday). And I had Richard Durand on the phone being interviewed by one of my listeners, Luke; In case you've not heard the show recently, I've started letting you guys interview the DJs En Route on the show, instead of me. Talking of which, if there's a DJ you'd really like to interview on my show in the coming weeks - someone you're off to see at a club or someone you're really loving at the moment - then drop me an email and tell me who & I might get you on the phone: judge.jules@bbc.co.uk

Speak to you again soon! Jules.