Sure, Spotify can recommend you a new song within seconds, but there’s still something satisfying about flipping through rows of records until an album cover catches your eye.
Collectors now have another vinyl record store to go crate-digging at: Lifted Trax, a new specialist record store tucked away on the 3rd floor of a shophouse along Lorong Telok, located within the Boat Quay District. Inspired by record shops in Tokyo, Osaka, New York, and London, the store has a curated collection of secondhand vinyl and new releases spanning everything from dance and electronic music to jazz, soul, and disco.
Stepping into Lifted Trax, you will find plenty of natural light streaming in through its generous windows, illuminating warm wood accents and cosy decor that give the space an intimate feel.
Most importantly, there’s plenty to dig through.
Lifted Trax’s secondhand collection isn’t limited to just 1 genre. You’ll find dance and electronic, ambient and new age, reggae and dancehall, jazz, soul, disco, and rare groove, among others. So, even if you walk in with a particular album in mind, you might just leave with something you wouldn’t have thought to search for in the first place.
There’s a bit of local music history hiding within these crates too. Some of the secondhand records come from the collections of older DJs in Singapore, before eventually finding their way into the hands of a new generation of listeners.
Image credit: Hizuan Zailani
Store founder Jordan Glick says that’s one of his favourite parts of running the shop – records that might have filled Singapore’s dancefloors 20 or 30 years ago get to live on as part of the city’s music scene today.
Not everything there is pre-loved either. Lifted Trax also has a new-release wall, with a particular focus on artists and labels from around Asia.
You’ll find niche independent dance releases from North America and Europe too, including music that Singapore collectors might previously have had to order from overseas or hunt down while travelling.
In other words, Lifted Trax is the sort of place where going in without a shopping list can be half the fun. If your playlists regularly send you down obscure musical rabbit holes, you could easily end up discovering your next favourite artist here.
Image credit: Hizuan Zailani
You don’t necessarily have to leave with a vinyl record either. Lifted Trax also stocks vinyl care products and turntable accessories, handy if your existing collection could use some upkeep. There are also lifestyle items such as incense and zines scattered among the music-related goods.
And if you can’t make it down physically, you can shop on the Lifted Trax website, which offers shipping throughout Asia. That includes both its new and secondhand records.
For those who simply want to listen to music in a record shop, there are also Listening Stations around the shop for you to enjoy the music from various vinyls.
Singapore-based DJ, producer, and label head Jordan Glick, who releases music as Dexter Colt and runs record labels Darker Than Wax and Super Enjoy, is the man behind Lifted Trax.
The Canadian-born founder has lived in Singapore for 20 years, but the idea for Lifted Trax took shape during a trip to Japan in May 2025. In between gigs, Jordan spent his free time digging through specialist record stores in Osaka, Nara, and Tokyo.
It was spending hours in those stores and speaking to the people behind them that made him realise how important record shops could be as gathering spaces for their respective music communities.
That same idea is being brought to Lifted Trax. Beyond selling vinyl, there are plans for in-store events, club nights around Singapore, and in-house record labels. He hopes the shop will eventually become somewhere music lovers can meet others with similar interests, exchange ideas, and make connections within Singapore’s local music scene.
Whether you’ve already built up shelves of vinyl at home or are only beginning your collection, Lifted Trax gives music lovers another place to discover something beyond their usual playlists.
Plus, being hidden in a shophouse makes stumbling upon your next favourite record feel that little bit more like finding a hidden gem.
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Cover image adapted from: Hizuan Zailani
There are Listening Stations for you to listen to music in-store.
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