SRIRAJAH ROCKERS
9/7/69 22:00
The first thing you hear are the shakers. Wavy, sporadic, and peppered across the mix. Slowly, the drum pattern begins to pick up, and the electric guitar follows suit: clean, funky upstrokes, that signature reggae push against the offbeat. The voice on the track delivers lyrics that are spiritual and botanically-inspired: no poison, only natural medicine, no chemicals, taking care of each other with clear and clean hearts. The song is called Organix, and within a few bars it tells you most of what you need to know about the Srirajah Rockers.
“ไม่มีพิษ ไม่มีพิษ ไม่มีพิษ พิษร้าย” - the refrain from Organix
The band formed in a town along Thailand’s eastern coastline called Sriracha in 2003. The original members include Win Chujitarom, Tanakarn Mokkhasmita, Kasama Leetrakul, Nra Janepraphaphan, and Chanat Isarangkul Na Ayuthaya. All five of them got caught in the same universe of roots reggae, and found that it resonated with the culture they had grown up in. They named themselves after the town, and took "Rockers" from a 1978 Jamaican film. Over the next two decades, the Srirajah Rockers quietly became one of Thailand's most serious acts, becoming not only genre-defining sensations, but appealing to an international crowd.
Organix, a record which came out in 2016, was their first studio album. The record draws a line between Buddhist philosophy, Rastafarian tradition, and the place cannabis has held in Thai folk culture for centuries. It was never novelty-driven. It was just the truth of where they came from and their day to day philosophies. This lyrical truth delivered by Win provides the foundation of their tracks, which they can build beautiful sonic landscapes.
Their 2024 album Enduro carries the same conviction, looser and more lived-in. They've been touring Japan and Taiwan behind it — building a following among listeners who don't speak a word of Thai and don't need to. The fact is, reggae is a feeling. That feeling transcends traditional means of communication like language. It is an inner shared bliss, the collective head bob to the loose drum and guitar rhythm — the feeling of being held in a crowd focused on one singular thing. This is a feeling roots music has always been able to build, and what makes Srirajah Rockers something beyond a local band: the embodiment of Thai culture and reggae culture in the same breath.
Most recently, they played Bar 335 in Thonglor in May 2026, the poster reading simply: Destroy Babylon.
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