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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.