Reggae & World Music Vinyl Records

This page is for the collector who follows rhythm across continents: the reggae devotee working through every Tuff Gong pressing, the world-music digger hunting kora recordings and Anatolian psych on wax, and everyone in between who knows that a great groove has no single address.

The collection runs to 185 titles. Among them: Bob Marley and the Wailers' Roots Rock Reggae: Live At The Hammersmith Odeon on 180-gram vinyl 2xLP from Tuff Gong; the Tuff Gong Jamaica pressings of Marley's Exodus, Kaya, and Legend; and his live set simply titled Live!, also on Tuff Gong. Buena Vista Social Club's 30th Anniversary arrives as a Pearl-colored 2xLP on World Circuit. Altin Gün's Garip is pressed on Blue Splatter vinyl via ATO Records. Hermanos Gutierrez appear twice, with Ojos Del Condor and El Bueno Y El Malo, both on Easy Eye Sound. Mickey Hart's In The Groove brings the rhythm-science side of this world into the mix, and Toumani Diabate's Kaira on Chrysalis represents the kora tradition at its most essential. Asake's Money lands on Gold-colored vinyl from Giran Republic, and the Elovaters' double LP Shark Belly Motel rounds out the contemporary reggae end of the shelf.

Why buy from Relix

Relix has covered the intersection of roots music, improvisation, and global rhythm since 1974. That perspective shapes what ends up in this store. The Relix Sessions series has put artists from across the jam and roots world on tape, and the same editorial instinct guides the records we stock: pressings that matter, labels that care about sound, and releases that reward close listening. We are not a general marketplace running an algorithm. We are a magazine that has spent five decades paying attention to where the music goes.

Every record in this collection is new and sealed. Titles listed with a street date are pre-orders; they ship when the label releases them, not before. Vinyl orders go out in protective packaging built for LPs, so the record arrives the way it left the pressing plant.

Browse related shelves to keep digging: live performances have their own home in Live Vinyl Albums and Records, color variants and limited pressings are gathered in Colored Vinyl Records and Limited Variants, and the broader reggae catalog including CDs lives in Reggae Vinyl and CDs. If your taste runs toward the jamband side of the roots world, Jam Band Vinyl Records is worth a look as well.