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March 31, 2023
Thank You Jillem !
Hello music blogworld,
Today is a sad day for all who used to visit
the great music blog of our dear colleague Jillem.
Zippyshare is closing down after today and all of
Jillem’s hard work from over the years will be lost.
Sadly we can’t leave any comments at Holland Tunnel Dive
for I am sure his mailbox would explode with Thank You’s.
So, to create a portal, you can leave your comments here for
the occasion. I’d say check the Ziipyshare files once more
and assure you’ve got everything you want. I sure hope
you’ll find some way to get back Jillem,
thanks a million for what you did .. !
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Thank you Jillem, we will miss all the fantastic things you have exposed us to, but it would be selfish to be upset! We will remember all your services everytime we listen to something great you exposed us to :) Much love!
Yes, very bad news from HTD. Since years he was a great dealer in reggae (mostly) and African music. Very good complement to your own work, Moos. I’m so sad but can’t really understand the issue : is he bored with it or just doesn’t want to pursue this work out of zippy share ? Nevertheless great thanks for the work you done Jillem, I have a bunch of music in my computer that I owe to you.
Christophe
An idea ? is it possible Moos that you offer an opportunity to Jillem to put his music on your site ? Am I stupid ? By the way I was wondering if it’s an idea to share your site for more type of music. For example I’m a big fan of jazz, blues music and I have accumulate bunch of music since years before the Web and on the Web. I sure can offer that to many people (specially music out of copyright of course, or difficult to find).
Thanks,
Christophe
Hi Jillem, thank you for about ten thousand items I am going through, Enjoying the whole wide world and hundred years of music.
I am still in denial, tomorrow someone says Ha Ha 1 april……
Oh what a strange and wonderful ride it has been.
A very sad day for any music enthusiast! HTD helped me to discover a lot great music, thx a lot for your work Jillem! I hope you find a way to continue your blog!
Big up from Cologne/Germany
Guido
Amazing and diligent work, Sir. Noticed, appreciated. I’d like to think moving forward without Zippy will be a bump in the road, rather than an ending. What ever is next for you, I hope it’s fun and rewarding. Many thanks!
I just want to thank Jillem for all the great great music over the years. Ive followed his several personas over a long period of time and seen him as a font of fantastic musci. I cannot thank him enough for taking me by the hand and leading me into thickets of wonderous music, and being totally happy to get lost, come across a campfire fiddlefest, a smokey dubathon, carnivals of latinery, caravans of arabesques, and the whole giddiness of music music music.
Happy as a splash to take the road less travelled.
Jillem, you are a marvel. Your blog has been an education and a mainstay in my life. Your excellence with the Jamaican music will never be forgotten. Indeed, it will be bubbling out of my speakers for decades to come.
Jah Guide!
Thomas
Santa Fe, NM
So sad to hear about the closing and unfortunately I arrived late. Couldn’t download any good old salsa music from the collection. Anyone has a copy for sharing?
Moos, hello. Have you see this? John
https://archive.org/details/jillem-full-archive
That is amazing,
thanks John.
thankyou to Jillem and thankyou to whoever sent this to archive.org
Awesome! Thanks for sharing this 😎
I scoured Jillem’s Zippy site and managed to grab 50+ files that seemed like my kinds of things before the shut down. However, without Jillem’s excellent curation it was a frantic ‘shot in the dark’ experience. With this Archive site, I can be a little bit more targeted and do it on my time.
… and this? Thanks Jillem & Moos
https://archive.org/details/jillem-full-archive_2
… and many of his articles have been archived by the Internet Time Machine
https://web.archive.org/web/*/%20hollandtunneldive.blogspot.com*
Jillem was/is great! Holland Tunnel Dive was a wonderful drive. Took me everywhere.
Another magnificent treasure gone. Thanks Jillem for all your work and great taste! And thanks Moos for continuing what you do!!!
I saw this news on his site recently and it’s really sad. Thank you Moos for giving us an opportunity to thank him, as it is not possible to do so directly.
I hope Jillem is reading this, so I can express my sincere gratitude: I have discovered so much amazing music through your posts over the years. It’s cost me a small fortune in records I’ve ended up buying having sampled them through you originally!
Thank you again so much and I really really hope you will rise once more from the ashes! Keep us informed!
Thank you Jillem.
Please know that I am deeply grateful for the work you have done over the years. I know much more because of you. My mind, body and soul have been moved by your work at HTD. I am definitely a better person because of the music you have shared.
The world will go on, but I will miss you.
I wish you fair winds and following seas! 🙏 🙏 🙏
Music blogs as a source of education.
I’m disabled and housebound but the world comes to me . I’m lucky enough to live in a multicultural neighbourhood comprising of all religion colours and class and I supply them with music. People have busy lives and although they have streaming apps eat many of the albums I play are not available else where. This is because they are mostly from Holland Tunnel Dive and Global Groovers. Whenever I play an album I research the history of the band, history of the country, the style of music and maps. Everyone joins in with this. I can not emphasise the joy and education this has given me and my friends. Also their children many of which are musicians and their friends who are buying the Vinyl reissues of this great music. Sometimes the music their grandparents listened to in some far off corner of the world.
Thanks to Jillem and Moos for making the world a better place.
Love from the UK.
Merci Beaucoup pour tout !
Music Lover !
Holland Tunnel Dive was an amazing place to learn about music from everywhere, from anytime less known in Europe. Seemingly also a shared love for the alternative music from the time when we grew up. A huge amount also and I regularly wondered how Jillem did it. It was a great journey. Sorry to see it go, even with the music still available. Thanks a lot ! Enjoy the music.
Many thanks for all!!!
Thank You For A Unique Experience In That Dive.
Music Should Go On Forever..
Give thanks Jillem.
Play on MR Music play on. World of Music from East West North South.
PEACE
Michael Lion
Juillem thanks for everything, but please start a new blog, it’s not just about saving the work done.
Life is every day, and we need to keep visiting Jillem to make sure the world can be otherwise.
It was certainly a great ride. His output was overwhelming. I could never keep up with it. I’m sure I lost a lot of gems. So all I can do is be grateful. I hope Jillem uses his extra time on something just as great. If I can sugest something, maybe he could keep the blog up because it’s such a unique reference for great music. Even if one can’t download the music it’s such a nice collection of records it can be used as a source of information and album covers. Many thanks.
Moos, both you and Jillem have been knocked down before. I hope Jillem gets back up. That was an amazing site. Such amazing service connecting music from across the globe.I am so grateful for all of the hard work you put in to this page. I’m glad you kept getting back up again. Get it and spread it. indeed.
jillem you changed my life
and kept me going
thanks
roberth
Really an astonishing legacy. Moos opened the way but Jillem “more than did his part ; )” Between the two of you music for the rest of our lives and I’m grateful. I’m sad he dropped the blog, even with no files it was so information rich.
thank you both for turning us on to such incredible music.
More than the files it’s the stories behind the music that were (are!) a precious asset of Jillem’s blog! I empathize with Jillem for missing a lot of the work done in uploading and keeping the files, but please don’t erase the blog, files or not files! It is such a precious source!!!!! Your work is and shall not be unthanked for!!!!!
4nar
I could never fully express my gratitude, Jillem. It has been my pleasure to amplify your generosity by making so much of what you have shared accessible to listeners around the world via my radio show. Can’t wait to see where you pop up next.
Thank you Jillem for the exposure to such wonderful music
Thank you, Jill, and thank you, Moos! My most excellent guides and teachers. I am a lifelong explorer of music, but my world was much more narrow before I found you both. I am proud to pass on and share your knowledge, insights, and hard work. Thank you so much!
for all those shares
i listen with open ears more n more
without HTD i would not be so open and open to learn and listen…
to all those artist that you shared sounds of thanks you
it was a really incredible repository to dive deep into and bath in frequencies of varied wonder
thanks again
gracias por todo estimado y fino amigo Jillem !
Moos : lo spirito continua !
we love you , Dutch Pirates :)
Thank’s for all Jillem.
Marc from Madagascar
Didn’t notice this until today. I can easily understand Jillem’s frustration, but I do wish the blog itself wasn’t erased (but happy to see the files are up on Internet Archive). The informative texts were as valuable as the actual shares. Anyway, I didn’t come here to complain, but to say thank you! Thanks for the always interesting and often wonderful discoveries I stumbled over whenever I paid Holland Tunnel Dive a visit. Incredible work! I never even understood how it was humanly possible.
100% agree, I’m sad to see the blog go because the photos and infos were so amazing and detailed not just for music files. THANK YOU JILLEM your blog truly changed my life, my interest in global and vintage music just kept expanding reading your blog each week.
Big gratitude! Thank you.
Jillem you were the light in the long tunnel of world music.
Thank you is not enough for all the records you have provided us with.
I am truly grateful to you.
Thank you very much jillem, I followed you for a while even before HTD, commenting when possible, even if I think I missed the real beginning.
Thank you very much jillem, I followed you for a while even before HTD, commenting when possible, even if I think I missed the real beginning.
Grazie mille jillem, ti ho seguito per un po’ anche prima di HTD, commentando quando possibile, anche se penso di essermi perso il vero inizio.
Thank you so much jillem, I followed you for a while even before HTD, commenting when possible, even though I think I missed the real beginning.
Grazie mille jillem, ti ho seguito per un po’ anche prima di HTD, commentando quando possibile, anche se penso di essermi perso il vero inizio.
I wish you the best and I hope you will reappear sooner or later in the folds of the web.
Your blog has been a constant source of inspiration.
Thanks to you too Moos, for giving us the opportunity to thank him and of course for the music you introduced me to.
Peace and Love
I follow all the comments to salute all the work done here and there since many years (around 20). Jillem I hope you’ll come back to enlight our days and bring knowledge to us.
Moos, Jillem, and all the unknown music lovers : we still need you !
Dear Jillen, 1000 thanks for your wonderful blog and the many great articles! Too bad, I will realy miss it. All good wishes to you!
Merci Jillem pour la masse considérable de bonne musique amassée pendant tout ce temps, et surtout pour l’avoir partagée avec passion et pédagogie. Il manque quelquechose sur le web maintenant.
how i can download it? the link doesn’t workl
try again Alex, the link works just fine ..
The internet archive links just got taken down, i was looking at it the other night but didn’t get try to download until now, does anyone have a backup?