Record stores in Medan

Vinyl hunting in Medan, North Sumatra? There are 1 record shops mapped here. Just the one mapped record shop in Medan — dig deep, and ask the staff what's new in the bins. 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 Medan (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is Sibal Music. If a record shop's missing from Medan's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Medan record lineup

1 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Medan

None of the 1 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Record shops keep fairly standard retail hours; daytime visits are a safe bet.

Record digging tips for Medan

How the regulars work Medan's bins:

• Check the dead wax at Sibal Music. The runout groove holds matrix numbers that identify pressings. Collectors live by these; a quick phone search settles it.
• Inspect the seams. Split seams and ring wear tell you how a record lived. Light wear is fine; trashed sleeves drag the value.
• Hit the new-arrivals bin first. That's where fresh stock lands before anyone else sees it. The good stuff rarely survives the week.
• Handle records properly in the shop. By the edges, never the grooves. Shops notice, and so do the records.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Medan — 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 Medan can take a while to appear. The 1 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

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 1 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.