I need help finding a lost classic in lossless format. I already contacted the authors behind the track with no luck.

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I'm making a custom thematic trance album collection - each album will focus on something different (Dreams, Energy, etc.). Each album will have 10 (or 20, not yet decided) tracks. I want to make this in order to truly show trance music from every angle possible and show how deep and varied the genre is. I want to include as much legendary and well-loved tracks as possible.
All of the albums combined will have roughly 200-300 tracks. Currently I'm trying to find every single track that I want to include in this collection in lossless FLAC format. So far, I managed to find every single track I wanted, even the ones that are not available anywhere on the internet. Well, except one. And that's why I need help.


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The track I'm talking about is Life on Mars (Y.O.M.C. Remix) from DJ Wag. This is by far the most popular version of Life on Mars. It has 88.000 views on YouTube on one video and on another video, it has 220.000 (the latter one is a video from 2002's Trance Energy where Blank & Jones played this track).

Yet, interestingly enough, this is the only single version of Life on Mars that isn't available anywhere in lossless format (WAV/FLAC). It's not available to buy digitally, I can't find it on any sites and I wasn't able to find it using file-sharing applications either. Just to make things clear, the Y.O.M.C. Remix is 9:36 long and it's NOT the same as the Y.O.M.C. Global Mix. The latter one has a quite distracting background noise/pulse/bass through almost its entirety and it's also a shorter track (8:20).

The normal Y.O.M.C. Remix only released on vinyl in 2001, according to Discogs.com. I contacted both authors behind the track in order to get help from them.

The first one was Martin Roth (aka Y.O.M.C.), who after a little bit of searching, said that he doesn't have the track in digital form and he confirmed that the track only released on vinyl. He also said something like "the Global Mix is fake", although I'm not sure what he meant by that.

The second person I asked was DJ Wag itself who digged up his old vinyl of the given track but I think he was confused because he sent me the Global Mix through Facebook, not the normal Y.O.M.C. Remix.

So here's the question. Is there anyone who has this track on vinyl and is willing to rip it in WAV (lossless) form?


Also, just for reference:
Original Y.O.M.C. Remix (the one I need): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfn5b_a5gLM
Original Y.O.M.C. Remix (slightly shortened by B&J for the event): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orHG0XmkL3Y
Y.O.M.C. Global Mix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL6qGZdJNkU
2001 vinyl release with the original Y.O.M.C. mix on it: https://www.discogs.com/DJ-Wag-Life-On-Mars/release/20322
2001 promotional vinyl with Y.O.M.C. mix on it: https://www.discogs.com/DJ-Wag-Life-On-Mars/release/2382169
 

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