Deaf Shop is one of the rooms that made Chiang Mai’s vinyl scene feel less theoretical. It is small, cozy, and direct: a listening bar and record shop in the old town, built around the simple idea that people should gather around records and actually listen.
Mixmag described it as Chiang Mai’s first vinyl listening bar, owned by Mum and Oomboi Lauw, a former Red Light Radio resident who also runs Liquorish Records. The collection is deliberately restless. Soul, jazz, reggae, funk, hip-hop, psychedelic rock, ambient, dub, EBM, techno, jungle, house, Gqom, footwork: the point is not purity. The point is movement without losing the room.
Time Out captures the weekly rhythm well. Thursday leans conversational, with hip-hop, funk, indie and punk in reach. Friday and Saturday can push toward bigger beats and dancing. Sunday afternoons slow down into afro-jazz, reggae, and a softer pace. The sound-system details are not public, so the listing does not guess. What matters here is clearer: Deaf Shop gives Chiang Mai a music-first room where the records are not decoration and the social contract is simple enough. Hear more. Say less.