Record stores in Dar es Salaam

Vinyl hunting in Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam? There are 85 record shops mapped here. That's 85 record shops mapped around Dar es Salaam. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Dar es Salaam (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Maua Music Centre and Fetty Big Star, plus Baby Munar. If a record shop's missing from Dar es Salaam's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

New Posta Transport Stand (34878579406) — Photograph by David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

The Dar es Salaam record lineup

85 mapped within about 40 km — showing 60:

Maua Music Centre

Record store

Maua Music Centre — Record store.

Fetty Big Star

Record store

Fetty Big Star is Record store.

Baby Munar

Record store

Baby Munar — Record store. Also worth knowing about Baby Munar: the map lists its hours as sunrise-sunset.

Hours: sunrise-sunset

Benito

Record store

Benito is Record store. Benito also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as sunrise-sunset.

Hours: sunrise-sunset

Dar Es Salaam (34878397645) — Photo: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Muddy

Record store

Muddy — Record store. Also worth knowing about Muddy: the map lists its hours as sunrise-sunset.

Hours: sunrise-sunset

Multi Agro Company

Record store

Multi Agro Company is Record store. Multi Agro Company also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as sunrise-sunset.

Hours: sunrise-sunset

Nasra Video

Record store

Nasra Video — Record store. Also worth knowing about Nasra Video: the map lists its hours as sunrise-sunset.

Hours: sunrise-sunset

Shwari

Record store

Shwari is Record store. Shwari also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as sunrise-sunset.

Hours: sunrise-sunset

Fastest Growing City (34753410651) — Photograph by David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

Grand Mapambazuko

Record store

Grand Mapambazuko is Record store.

Kapico cd/video

Record store

Kapico cd/video is Record store.

Manjau General Supplies

Record store

Manjau General Supplies — Record store.

Msama Promotion Music

Record store

Msama Promotion Music — Record store.

Dar Es Salaam Sunset (35202759600) — Photo: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Video & Cd Shop

Record store

Video & Cd Shop — Record store.

Steps Entertainment Ltd

Record store

Steps Entertainment Ltd — Record store.

Mungu Mwenye Nguvu

Record store

Mungu Mwenye Nguvu is Record store.

Sms Music Sound

Record store

Sms Music Sound — Record store.

Shaa Professional Car Sound

Record store

Shaa Professional Car Sound is Record store.

Ikmar Library

Record store

Ikmar Library is Record store.

Hassan Lumumba Production

Record store

Hassan Lumumba Production — Record store.

Shaff Sound

Record store

Shaff Sound is Record store.

Sound Electronic

Record store

Sound Electronic is Record store.

Lusambi

Record store

Lusambi is Record store.

Loga Loga Library

Record store

Loga Loga Library is Record store.

Young Don Records

Record store

Young Don Records — Record store.

Library

Record store

Library is Record store.

Dolphin digital production

Record store

Dolphin digital production is Record store.

Jinx Library

Record store

Jinx Library is Record store.

Mr It Libraly

Record store

Mr It Libraly is Record store.

Aseva Music Library

Record store

Aseva Music Library is Record store.

Mr. It Library

Record store

Mr. It Library is Record store.

Musa Library

Record store

Musa Library is Record store.

Makaveli

Record store

Makaveli is Record store.

J Library

Record store

J Library — Record store.

Tastement Video Library

Record store

Tastement Video Library — Record store.

MM Music

Record store

MM Music is Record store.

Dick Car Music System

Record store

Dick Car Music System is Record store.

Super Car Audio

Record store

Super Car Audio — Record store.

Triangle Center

Record store

Triangle Center is Record store.

Sanga Sound Engineers

Record store

Sanga Sound Engineers is Record store.

NJ Records

Record store

NJ Records is Record store.

Bob Video Library

Record store

Bob Video Library — Record store.

Baba Wawili Shop

Record store

Baba Wawili Shop is Record store.

Iddy Alenja

Record store

Iddy Alenja is Record store.

JK Bombastic Sound and Music Promotion

Record store

JK Bombastic Sound and Music Promotion — Record store.

New Kigudalo

Record store

New Kigudalo — Record store.

Hanss Video Library

Record store

Hanss Video Library — Record store.

Bm Sound

Record store

Bm Sound is Record store.

Bombastic Sound

Record store

Bombastic Sound — Record store.

Lumonge Library& Video Production

Record store

Lumonge Library& Video Production — Record store.

Wema Library

Record store

Wema Library is Record store.

Kitaa Chaka

Record store

Kitaa Chaka — Record store.

Roberty

Record store

Roberty — Record store.

Video library princess Quatar

Record store

Video library princess Quatar is Record store.

Matupa Car Music System

Record store

Matupa Car Music System — Record store.

MC Tulizo Entertainment

Record store

MC Tulizo Entertainment — Record store.

Team Pesa Music

Record store

Team Pesa Music is Record store.

Arsenal

Record store

Arsenal — Record store.

T.A. Library

Record store

T.A. Library is Record store.

Mjeshi

Record store

Mjeshi — Record store.

Mnyalo Photo

Record store

Mnyalo Photo is Record store.

What the map tells us about record stores in Dar es Salaam

6 of the 85 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

The Dar es Salaam record crawl

Making a day of it in Dar es Salaam? Work this order: Maua Music Centre, Fetty Big Star, Baby Munar, Benito, Muddy, Multi Agro Company, Nasra Video, and Shwari. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 77 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Dar es Salaam

How the regulars work Dar es Salaam's bins:

Check the dead wax at Maua Music Centre. The runout groove holds matrix numbers that identify pressings. Collectors live by these; a quick phone search settles it.
Hit the new-arrivals bin first at Fetty Big Star. That's where fresh stock lands before anyone else sees it. The good stuff rarely survives the week.
Inspect the seams. Split seams and ring wear tell you how a record lived. Light wear is fine; trashed sleeves drag the value.
Buy the weird stuff. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Dar es Salaam — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Dar es Salaam can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 85 that's closed, or a great record store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 85 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.

Record store listings for Dar es Salaam: 85 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.