The Offline is the multi-instrumentalist and producer Felix Müller’s deep dive into the world of library music, surf and soft psychedelia. The project was born as a soundtrack to the analogue images he captured along France’s Atlantic coastline. Pictures from the water, the beaches and the waves grew into their own hip-hop-leaning, cinematic musical universe.
On his second album La grande évasion (DeepMatter Records, 2025), Müller moves through dusty boom-bap drums, laid-back surf aesthetics and endlessly soft grooves rooted in library music and American West Coast rock. Lead single “Boulevard National” channels the streets of Marseilles through Anatolian psychedelia and West Coast surf. “Nikonos V” – named after the underwater camera he always brings to the sea – moves in the same waters as Khruangbin and Tommy Guerrero. On “Le Trip”, saxophonist Kimo Eiserbeck joins for a blend that draws from boom-bap, Japanese jazz-funk and BADBADNOTGOOD.
The album has been warmly received on BBC Radio 6 (Huey Morgan and Deb Grant) and praised by Jazz FM, NTS and Somewhere Soul. At Fasching, his band brings beach atmosphere and analogue warmth – a sound shaped by sun-kissed West Coast rock and Anatolian 70s riffs.
