My preview of Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy’s album Dying Is The Internet, released 12 March 2026 as part of Dekmantel’s UFO series.
Dying Is the Internet is the second collaborative release from two prodigious talents shaping experimental club culture in Europe. Released as part of the Dutch festival Dekmantel’s UFO series, that showcases “ranky darkwave funk and industrial textures, jagged body music”, it is a considerable evolution of Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy’s 2020 release Kill Me Or Negotiate (Brothers From Different Mothers).
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In the press kit Cell discloses that “dying is the internet” is a mantra about “how the internet lost its soul” as it became “less about sharing ideas and more about surviving in a digital business ecosystem.” While Miniawy describes the album as “a playful prophecy about the triggers of a new global revolution.” While I do not understand Miniawy’s Arabic lyrics, I gather it touches on themes of digital fatigue and dissolution with club culture and brings to my mind notions of doomscrolling, short attention spans and information overwhelm.
Read at Cyclic Defrost.