LP – Black Vinyl.Don Philippe announces new instrumental album Velvet Breaks – out October 10th on Sonar Kollektiv Lo-fi textures meet emotional depth across a meditative, analog- inspired journey.Sonar Kollektiv proudly announces the new album by lo-fi veteran Don Philippe.Titled Velvet Breaks, the fully instrumental record drops October 10th, 2025 on vinyl and digital formats.With its textured production, broken rhythms, and a distinctly analog warmth, Velvet Breaks is a slow-burning, introspective work – a meditation on fragility, erosion, and beauty in decay.Don Philippe, real name Philippe A.Kayser, brings decades of musical experience to the project.A professional drummer in the 1980s and later active as a pianist and guitarist, Kayser has worked since the 1990s as a composer and producer from his own studio.He is also a co-founder of the legendary German hip-hop group Freundeskreis, a pioneering act that helped define the sound and culture of German rap.Since 2015, Don Philippe has focused on instrumental hip-hop, releasing over ten solo albums across various independent labels and building a global fanbase on streaming platforms.His music bridges the soulful subtleties of jazz with the grit of classic boom- bap, always delivered with a delicate, cinematic touch.On Velvet Breaks, that mastery is on full display.From the crackle of dusty drum loops to the hazy elegance of Rhodes melodies and tape-saturated fragments, the album builds a fragile world where silence and space are just as important as sound.The track titles read like a poetic deconstruction — “fibers displaced,” “torn,” “a rupture, ” “entanglement” — tracing a conceptual journey from tension to release.The album unfolds like a narrative, with each track title suggesting a step in a process of unraveling: “fibers displaced,” “edges,” “a rupture,” “tension,” “entanglement” – culminating in the title track, “velvet is broken.”There is no need for words here.The beats speak for themselves, telling a story in fragments, textures, and ghostly grooves.
