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Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy
Dying Is The Internet
Dekmantel
- Cat No: DKMNTL-UFO20
- updated:2026-07-14
"Dying Is The Internet," a powerful collaboration between Paris-based leftfield dance maverick Simo Cell and Egyptian singer/trumpeter Abdullah Miniawy — a sequel of sorts to 2020's "Kill Me Or Negotiate." A new release in Dekmantel's UFO series. Sharp-edged bass music that tackles contemporary themes like club culture and digital fatigue from an experimental angle.
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An ambitious work that throws down a challenge to our domesticated attention spans, pointing out that the internet has "mutated from a place to share ideas into a place to survive within a digital business ecosystem." In resistance, the record is built to let nuance and ideas surface gradually over time. Abdullah Miniawy moves freely in and out of Auto-Tune, his Arabic-inflected poetry dismantling and reassembling the relationship between beat and vocal. Simo Cell, with further refined voice design and compositional precision, keeps the floor functionality firmly intact while crafting inventive, heavy dance music poised between sophistication and deviation. There are plenty of memorable hooks throughout, too: the lo-fi submersion of "Reels in 360," the minimal trumpet slipped into "Travelling In BCC," and the relentless handclap drive of "Living Emojis." Lord Spikeheart, vocalist of Kenyan extreme duo Duma, guests on the opening track. Stunning stuff. (Original Japanese text by Adachi)