Joe Theobald, aka DJ Captain Wormhole, Looks at all things vinyl 

I CAUGHT up with an old friend a few weeks ago, when I was in London to see the master of lasers in action at the Millennium Thunder Dome. 
Rob Morgan, aka Rob the Mod, was a Friday night staple for me and my Swindon people during the teens/early 20s. His Soda/Brunel/Suju sets were a weekly fixture; some time in ‘05 to ‘12ish.
We met at the Argyle in Soho and after a couple of sherbs made our way to a record store called Sounds of the Universe. After a dig through the racks we retired to the Craft Beer Co. for Belgians and chit chat.
CW: Cracking little record shop that Rob, I picked up a Willie Bobo and Mongo Santamaria LP, what did you get?
RM: Jameszoo – Fool, on Brainfeeder. It’s kinda electro-jazzy with the sounds of Batteries Not Included (the film about miniature space ships in an apartment block, Cocoon meets Short Circuit). Dennis Ayler, No Comment EP, on 22A, been meaning to pick this up for a while.
CW: Is it mainly new stuff you buy then?
RM: Yeah, mostly new stuff. A lot of collectors are chasing the same records, all grails, but I’d rather go for bands that are around now, on labels where the money is going back to the artist. Give a collector a time machine and send him back to the 60s/70s and I don’t think he’d even pick up KPM. There’s so much good music coming out now. The 22A lads for example, Reginald Omas, etc, all from Peckham, all hip-hop influenced and making Jazz.
CW: No More Heroes (Brunel) and Cassette Player (Suju) were Friday night staples for me and my mates back in the day, how did you get started?
RM: I’d come back from university, go to Walkabout and I’m 20 and I don’t wanna listen to Summer of 69. Bands like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Strokes, Interpol were big and I just blagged a night with Soda, said I’d been DJ’ing at uni. No More Heroes was for the Myspace generation. 
We had live bands like the Maccabes. The Foals were booked once but pulled out. Once I booked Jack Peñate (indie-cindy acoustica) and got offered a support act for £50 but I turned her down because I thought she was rubbish. It was Adele.
CW: What made you stop doing a night in Swindon?
RM: You can’t have old people running nights. I wanted somebody to come along, all you need to do is ask (Soda) and I never understood why I never got knocked off my perch.
CW: If There is Hell Below is your weekly podcast which has been going for six years and been featured in The Guardian, what’s it all about?
RM: It’s me and my best mate, six tracks each and we go deep, power pop, psych, funk, jazz etc. We’re up to about 270 episodes and we’ve got a cult following. We’ve interviewed bands like Whitney, The Goon Sax, The Posies, and we ask them stuff like what did their Mum and Dad used to play in the car and what’s their favourite hangover track.
<li> Rob’s day job is running recordstore.co.uk and you might catch him playing power pop or country music in L-town.