Review: Don Philippe - velvet breaks (Sonar Kollektiv)

Lo-fi vet, Don Philippe takes a smooth look at beast with a full album on Sonar Kollektiv as 'velvet breaks'.

All as you'd imagine, analog beats defined by multi-instrumentalist/producer and hip-hop pioneer in Germany, Don Phillippe (aka Philippe A. Kayser) and as a mate of Max Herre (as in Web Web x Max Herre - see review HERE) there's a big touch of jazz with cinematic soul, boom-bap and OST all weaved in tie the Rhodes keys and drum loops.

This is for the serious diggers and if you're a fan of the Blackpool Wurlitzer Organ sound, go straight to 'torn' and jazzy bass, 'exposed'.   

But all the 16 tracks on this album are fantastic 'postcards' of sound that would challenge Dilla, Madlib et al. 

BUY LINK: https://sonarkollektiv.lnk.to/velvet-breaks

Artist: Don Philippe

Title: velvet breaks

Release date: 10th October, 2025

Label : Sonar Kollektiv

Catalog Number : SK540LP

Format: Vinyl LP / Digital / Bandcamp