Groovetech and DJMR

I've been looking for a song called "Skydive" by Freefall on and off since late 1999. The only online record store (I'm talkin' vinyl 12") that I knew of back then was Satellite Records. They didn't have it, so I figured it was out of print and promptly forgot about trying to find it.

But I never forgot the song.

So a couple months ago I searched again and found a music mail order portal which lead me to an online record store in the UK that stocked it. "Skydive" had since been re-released on Renaissance! Order it from the UK? Did I really want it that badly? Naw...

A couple nights ago I was on Satellite Records checking out their Real Audio clips and just for kicks I searched for "Skydive" and there it was. But before I could order it, my machine crashed. I called it a night and decided to place my order the next day.

Of course, the next day the song doesn't show up in the database. Sold out?

Now, I MUST HAVE THIS SONG! And while I'm at it I might as well order some others as well...

So I scour the net and find two other cool mail order record stores. Groovetech is a nice looking (record cover thumbnails!), slow loading site that seems to be out of stock for most of the singles that I wanted. But, it has a track breakdown of each item and it's got streaming video of DJ sets so you can see how they work (DJ Dan). I ordered the bulk of my vinyl from DJMR, which seemed to have a couple more of the older favs. Keep open both sites (and Satellite too, might as well) and cross-reference the Real Audio to sample the most of each track...

Oh, and "Skydive" is available as a CD single from Amazon now.