Record stores in Paramaribo

Paramaribo, Paramaribo District has 3 record stores on the map. That's 3 record shops mapped around Paramaribo. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Bring a want-list, but leave room for the find you didn't know you needed.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Paramaribo (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Tjan Hing Music and Cheung's Music, plus Oelas Pokoe. If a record shop's missing from Paramaribo's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Paramaribo record lineup

3 in Paramaribo, plus 1 more around Paramaribo below:

What the map tells us about record stores in Paramaribo

None of the 3 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.

The Paramaribo record crawl

Making a day of it in Paramaribo? Work this order: Tjan Hing Music, Cheung's Music on 72 Zwartenhovenbrugstraat, and Oelas Pokoe on A.L. Waaldijkstraat. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Record digging tips for Paramaribo

Digging in Paramaribo? A few habits pay off:

• Check the bargain wall rhythm at Tjan Hing Music. Shops restock the cheap sections on cycles. Ask when — that's when the fresh bargains land.
• Ask the staff what's new at Cheung's Music. Shop staff know what's just come in and what's about to. One question can save an hour of digging.
• Note the shop's specialties. Every shop leans somewhere — soul, punk, jazz, classical. Find the lean that matches yours, then dig the others anyway.
• Check the dead wax. The runout groove holds matrix numbers that identify pressings. Collectors live by these; a quick phone search settles it.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Paramaribo — 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 Paramaribo can take a while to appear. The 3 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 3 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.

Worth the trip: more record stores around Paramaribo

1 more within about 40 km of Paramaribo, nearest first: