Located on a side street just off bustling Flatbush Avenue, Record City (est. 2016) rests in the heart of Prospect Lefferts Gardens, the Brooklyn neighborhood that’s long been a home to NYC’s Caribbean immigrant communities. It makes complete sense then that a perusal of the shop’s racks yields one of the strongest selections of Jamaican sounds — roots reggae, rocksteady, dub, dancehall, et al. – available in New York. It also makes sense given owner Ian Clark’s pedigree as a longtime partner in revered reggae reissue label DKR (AKA Digikiller Records, AKA Deeper Knowledge Records). But as Clark will be the first to tell you, Record City isn’t a shop confined by his area of musical expertise; groove-based music generally informs the store’s stock, and you’re as likely to pull gems from the jazz, soul, funk, hip-hop, disco 12" or rock sections as you'd nab a vintage pre-release blank culled from an old soundsystem selector.
