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Defected Records’ ‘Moments In Music’ Returns for Season 2 With Monki in the Host Seat
House music’s stories deserve more than track IDs. Defected Records brought back its “Moments In Music” podcast for a second season on October 27, with DJ, producer and broadcaster Monki — a Defected resident — hosting eight new episodes running Tuesdays through December 15.
The season opens with BLOND:ISH in the guest chair, and the lineup that follows reads like a cross-section of modern dance music: Ewan McVicar, Jaguar, Salome Le Chat, Smokin Jo, Denis Sulta, Oden & Fatzo and Poppy Baskcomb. Each episode digs into the moments that shaped its guest — the records, rooms and turning points behind the careers.
Season two has big shoes to fill. The first run of “Moments In Music” featured MK, Purple Disco Machine, Rudimental, Carl Craig, Sam Divine, Skream, Roger Sanchez, Joseph Capriati and Josh Baker, establishing the series as one of the few long-form interview shows dedicated entirely to dance music culture — and one produced by a label that has been at the center of that culture for more than two decades.
The new season is available in audio and video across major podcast platforms, with Monki — who has lived the DJ life from radio to the Defected residency — guiding conversations that go well beyond the booth.
That last point is the show’s reason to exist. Electronic music has never lacked mixes, charts or festival coverage, but long-form conversation with the people who built the culture remains rare — especially from a host who still plays the rooms her guests are describing. Season two doubles down on that formula, pairing scene veterans like Smokin Jo with the new generation of headliners, one honest moment at a time.
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Billy Porter Opens a Faith-and-Identity Conversation Series as First Guest of ‘This Is Our Story’
A new monthly conversation series is making room for the stories people are rarely asked to tell in full. “This Is Our Story,” hosted by Seth Pinnock — founder of the UK charity Symphony Co. — launched October 20 from Symphony Co. and In Details Studios, exploring culture, faith, sexuality, identity and the life-shaping stories in between.
The inaugural guest sets the tone: Billy Porter, the Emmy, Grammy and three-time Tony Award winner, sits down with Pinnock for an open conversation about growing up in the Pentecostal church, enduring bullying, and the long road through faith, healing and forgiveness.
Porter’s reflections anchor the episode. “Forgiveness is for me,” he says in the conversation. “It’s not forgive and forget. It’s forgive and move forward.” It is the kind of unguarded exchange the series is built to hold — personal history examined without spectacle, by a host whose own work through Symphony Co. centers community and young people’s stories.
As a monthly series, “This Is Our Story” is positioned as a slow conversation in a fast medium: one guest, one story, and the space to tell it properly. With Porter as its first voice, it opens with a story that moves from the church pews of Pittsburgh to the highest stages in entertainment — and finds healing, not bitterness, at the center of it.
That is precisely the ground Pinnock wants the series to hold. The conversations are structured around the moments that shape a life rather than the highlights that sell one, and Porter’s episode — part testimony, part masterclass in survival — gives the young series an unmistakable statement of intent from its very first installment.
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