The Offline drops first single of 2023, 'Le Club'

The first single since his 2022 debut EP ‘En Clair-Obscur’, The Offline continues his fusion of jazz, funk, surf and soul on ‘Le Club’, an ode to a famous surf spot along the shores of the French Atlantic.

The new track connects seamlessly to the sonics of his first project and continues his journey into an analogue feel reminiscent of old funk and jazz albums you’d find sampled in hip-hop. A soulfully visual tune with dramatic, cinematic arrangements, it also pays homage to the moody soundtracks of 1960s and 1970s film composers such as Francois de Roubaix, Brian Bennet and David Axelrod.

The Offline came to life, when composer and photographer Felix Müller travelled the Atlantic coastline in the south of France with his analogue camera, capturing the beach life on film. After coming back to Hamburg, he started writing songs to match the sonic counterpart to the analogue visuals and soon recognized that he needed to build a group of musicians. With Carl-Michael “Grabi” Grabinger on drums, Sebastian Schütze on bass and the brass section with Hans-Christian Stephan and Kimo Eiserbeck, he found highly skilled instrumentalists to help the tracks come to life.