In 2019, French ambient composer and vocalist Malibu released her haunting One Life EP, which was inspired by the vastness of the nature and the ocean, her dreams as well as films and novels such as Jane Campion‘s The Piano and Jonathan Livingston‘s Seagull. Initially, the EP was commissioned by Julianna Barwick for the Joyful Noise label.

Today, Malibu is sharing a remix EP of One Life and the project has gone full circle as Julianna Barwick has reworked the opening track “Nana (Like a star made for you)”. One Life : four remixes also features renditions from John Beltran, Kelly Moran and Evian Christ, who turns the title track into a breathtaking, trance-leaning finale.

Like every year, our lists don’t have the pretention to be objective, or exhaustive. We only list the favourite releases of our staff. Also, we probably forgot some very cool stuff and we’re sorry about that. Before unveiling our favourite albums and tracks of 2019, here are the 20 EPs and mixtapes that made our year, as well as a Spotify playlist to (re)discover all these projects.

20. Liss – “Second”

19. Ana Roxanne – “~~~”

18. Chela – “Delivery”

17. Kilo Kish – “REDUX”

16. Andy Stott – “It Should Be Us”

15. Malibu – “One life”

14. Cherushii & Maria Minerva – “Cherushii & Maria Minerva”

13. Hana Vu – “Nicole Kidman / Anne Hathaway”

12. Toro y Moi – “Soul Trash”

11. Christelle Bofale – “Swim Team”

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10. Jackie Mendoza – “LuvHz”

9. Kate Bollinger – “I Don’t Wanna Lose”

8. Kate Teague – “Kate Teague”

7. Magdalena Bay – “mini mix vol. 1”

6. NOIA – “CRISÀLIDA”

5. MUNYA – “Blue Pine”

4. Saeyers – “Saeyers EP”

3. Sandy – “Traces”

2. Dear Japan – “Hollow Hearted Hands”

1. Charlotte Adigéry – “Zandoli”