{"title":"The Offline","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Offline is the moniker of Hamburg-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, and photographer Felix Müller. The project came to life when Müller travelled the Atlantic coastline in southern France with his camera, capturing beach life on film. After returning to Hamburg, he started writing songs as the sonic counterpart to the visuals. His expansive, cinematic sound blends library music, jazz-funk, psychedelic influences, soul, surf, hip-hop, and lo-fi beats. He channels the influence of 1960s and 70s film composers including François de Roubaix, Brian Bennett, and David Axelrod. His music has been compared to Surprise Chef, Robohands, and Khruangbin. He works with regular collaborators including drummer Chris Hill, bassist Sebastian Schütze, keyboardist Felix Behrendt, trumpeter Hans-Christian Stephan, and saxophonist Kimo Eiserbeck.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-offline-la-grande-evasion-2025-deepmatter-records-vinyl-lp","title":"The Offline - La Grande Évasion (2025 DeepMatter Records Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Offline - \u003cem\u003eLa Grande Évasion\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 2025 DeepMatter Records (DM025)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Offline is Felix Müller, a Hamburg-based multi-instrumentalist and producer whose reference points run from 1960s French film soundtracks through 70s American jazz-funk and the library music that hip-hop producers spent decades sampling. \u003cem\u003eLa Grande Évasion\u003c\/em\u003e — The Great Escape — is his second full-length album for DeepMatter Records, and started as something else: initially a concept album about a spaceship in deep space. Müller scrapped that framing but kept the underlying idea of departure and discovery, rerouting it into something more grounded in place, memory and photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album runs sixteen tracks across two sides. The opening suite covers arrival and movement through landscape — \"La Belle en Lumière,\" \"Dans les Grands Espaces,\" \"De Paris à l'Amazonie.\" Side B shifts toward the oceanic: \"Les Oiseaux de Mer,\" \"La Vie à Bord,\" \"Les Îles,\" the closing \"Nikonos V,\" named for the Nikon underwater camera series used by divers and ocean photographers. \"Le Trip\" (B4) features Kimo Eiserbeck, who also plays all the horn parts across the album — flute, tenor, alto and baritone. Hans-Christian Stephan arranged the brass and plays trumpet and flugelhorn. Felix Behrendt plays Rhodes, piano and organ. Müller engineered and mixed at Le Grand Schrank; Kai Beisner mastered at Louis Limbo Lounge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DeepMatter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43425795047483,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/a2999141463_10.jpg?v=1776334209"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/the-offline.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}