Record Stores / Egypt

Record Stores in Cairo, Egypt

11 record stores — last verified July 2026.

• Flex Music

  Open Hours not listed

  Maadi records-and-CDs shop trading since 1999, mainly for serious collectors — first and early pressings including The Beatles and Pink Floyd among stock running up to the early 1980s, plus vintage guitars.

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• Mazzika Zaman

  Open Hours not listed

  Zamalek record shop in the Masri Towers building on Bahgat Ali St, with ~15,000 rotating records spanning Arabic, jazz, blues and world music, plus vintage gramophones and amplifiers. Often called Cairo's oldest surviving record store.

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• Records Gallery Egypt - New Cairo

  Open Hours not listed

  New Cairo villa location of Records Gallery Egypt, packed with Arabic and international vinyl, record players/gramophones and vintage movie posters and magazines; recent Instagram posts describe it as the brand's new headquarters.

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• Records Gallery Egypt - Zamalek

  Open Hours not listed

  Zamalek/Nile Corniche branch of Records Gallery Egypt on the Ahl Masr walkway, with a large Arabic and Middle Eastern vinyl collection; shares a shopfront brand and phone line with the chain's New Cairo villa location.

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• Retrograde Records

  Open Hours not listed

  Zamalek boutique run by Clint/Clinton, an American expat art teacher, mixing original fine art, refurbished vintage stereo equipment, books and a large selection of new and used vinyl records.

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• Sakanat Studio

  Open Hours not listed

  Egypt's first electronic-music vinyl store, opened late 2017 inside Bardo Clubhouse in Maadi by DJs Mazen Aroussi and Karim El Sherbini. Buy, sell and swap house, techno, disco and minimal vinyl, plus vinyl-DJing lessons and studio sessions.

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• Seldom Records

  Open Hours not listed

  Downtown Cairo record shop in Qasr El Nil, with an active Discogs marketplace storefront (seldomrecords) and Instagram account for its vinyl stock.

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• Sherry's Vinyl - Maadi

  Open 1:30pm–8:30pm today

  Maadi branch of Sherry's Vinyl (Tawfeeq Tower, 29 Mostafa Kamel St), Cairo's veteran crate-diggers' haven since 2007, stocking used vinyl from budget bins to rare Arabic and Western finds.

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• Sherry's Vinyl - Zamalek

  Open 12:30pm–9pm today

  Zamalek branch of Sherry's Vinyl, a crate-diggers' haven since 2007 on Abu Al Feda St, with an impressive Arabic collection of 45s and LPs alongside jazz, rock and classical, plus antiques and vintage collectibles.

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• Sono Cairo (Sawt al-Qahira)

  Open Hours not listed

  State-owned label founded 1958 by composer Mohamed Fawzy; stopped pressing records in the 1980s but its Downtown Cairo office still sells off decades of unsold Egyptian and Western vinyl stock from rooms throughout the building.

  3 sources

• Yellow Tape Records & Culture

  Open Hours not listed

  Maadi record shop and music hub built around contemporary dance-music vinyl (house, techno, breakbeat, downtempo), running vinyl and digital DJ-mixing courses and wellness classes by appointment.

  3 sources