The Offline is an instrumental cinematic soul project based in Hamburg, Germany. Inspired by moody soundtracks of 1960s and 1970s film composers (Francois de Roubaix, Brian Bennet, David Axelrod et al.), The Offline releases atmospheric, soulfully visual tunes with dramatic library-music-esque cinematic arrangements.

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 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. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.