As @mmmmalibu, the French DJ and producer Barbara Braccini writes diaristic ambient music with a distinct sense of melancholy. As dj lostboi, she’s more playful, repurposing pop anthems into ethereal epics. 

Alongside a blissful Recognise mix evoking the vibe of “long summer nights”, she chats to Heléna Stanton about these projects, field recordings, the influence of vaporwave, film scores and trance on her sound, and her monthly NTS show, United In Flames

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-malibu-dj-lostboi-united-in-flames-ambient-interview

Recognise: Malibu

Malibu is a French electronic musician whose work sails between ambient and ethereal music.
Forever inspired by soft reverbed vocals and melodious chord progressions, Malibu’s music is an immersive nostalgic journey in a sea of synthetic strings and choirs. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/malibu/episodes/malibu-13th-february-2025

United In Flames w/ Malibu 130225

This mix is the sound of hearts unraveling. Yawning Portal (@yawningportal) is an opening to other worlds: a transmutation, a prayer.

They wake with the taste of static on their tongue, echoes decay: the thread thins…there was never a first note. The atmosphere is serene and distant, with light piercing through swirling mist. Water flows gracefully through the crevices, reflecting shimmering silhouettes — a quiet beauty, gentle and warm, like the shape of love.

Hailing from London, this duo excels at capturing the intricate textures of sound, moving seamlessly between delicate field recordings and refined sampling. They released their debut EP Heart and Earth in 2020 via PLZ Make it Ruins and have since released singles via Odyxxey, Slagwerk, Club Paradiso & 29 Speedway and YEAR0001’s RIFT compilation. They scored Lydia Ourahmane’s immersive installation Survival in the Afterlife at Portikus, Frankfurt alongside an hourlong digital release Notice the Direction of Fires and collaborated with Ourahmane again to score the film Tassili; the film has since been presented at museums and institutions internationally. Since 2020 they have hosted under sleepy moon, a monthly show on NTS radio.

Tracklist:
Eriks Esenvalds - Stars
Purelink - Untitled
Merely - Tangerine Skies (Cotton Mouth Mix)
chantssss - Lose My
Brigitte Lesne: Discantus - Anon: Ite Iam Sine Tristica (Trope D'Ite Missa Est, Codex Engelberg)
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts II
Echinacea - Finding Home, Through the Storm - Emily Glass x Guild of Lore (A Path Emerges)
innerinnerlife, Amelie Siba - Riegrovy sady
sofa - try hard 
Evia - Slumber
Peter Rehberg - Boxes & Angels
Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold: Scene 1: Vorspiel
Yawning Portal - ?
Detente - From the moon (ocean version)

PURE Guest.077 Yawning Portal

Here’s Ingrate with an hour of forward-thinking house music, drawing inspiration from the mid to late 2000s.

https://www.instagram.com/1ngr4t3/

Ingrate @ Drift Radio 27-02-25

Malibu is a French electronic musician whose work sails between ambient and ethereal music.
Forever inspired by soft reverbed vocals and melodious chord progressions, Malibu’s music is an immersive nostalgic journey in a sea of synthetic strings and choirs. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/malibu/episodes/malibu-13th-march-2025

United in Flames with Casey MQ & Malibu 130325

@merely is a Swedish singer and producer known for her versatile, emotionally rich sound. She seamlessly blends crystalline vocals with ethereal instrumentals, creating a style that falls somewhere between ambient trance and chamber pop—evoking a vast, tranquil atmosphere reminiscent of the misty Nordic coastline. Her lyrics resonate deeply, stirring misty eyes and clear hearts, and guiding listeners down dreamy, flirtatious paths into worlds they long to enter.

Her latest project, Essential Mixtape, a collaboration with French ambient artist Malibu, was released on YEAR0001 in November 2024, drawing listeners into even deeper meditative realms.

PURE Guest.080 merely

Malibu is a French electronic musician whose work sails between ambient and ethereal music.
Forever inspired by soft reverbed vocals and melodious chord progressions, Malibu’s music is an immersive nostalgic journey in a sea of synthetic strings and choirs. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/malibu/episodes/malibu-10th-april-2025

United In Flames w/ Lena South & Malibu 170425

photo by ben sanders

tracklist:

lie about us - dj jayhood
bmw - bad boy chiller crew
she wanna fuck - depressed teenager
keypressed - kaval
bieber born slippy & trembling - aspa
peppermint - kaval
rise up - yves larock
direct drums all the time - akash
here i am (kaskade remix) - david morales
maybe nevermind - regularfantasy
bbbhhh - dubbel dutch
let u leave (kg remix) - kota banks
paga a bebida da bela - djbboy
money baby - k camp
morphing into brighter - anz
hyph mngo edit -babyface
xy - feng
war hound - kwes e
you got me - dj paypal
hustlin dj tool - raw takes
omg - kush jones & swisha
embraza - vhoor

RISH Pai Dui Set 2025

Malibu is a French electronic musician whose work sails between ambient and ethereal music.
Forever inspired by soft reverbed vocals and melodious chord progressions, Malibu’s music is an immersive nostalgic journey in a sea of synthetic strings and choirs. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/malibu/episodes/malibu-8th-may-2025

United In Flames w/ Oklou & Malibu 080525

I’m in the dream tonight (all night)
Get up and fly tonight

I’m in a dream tonight (I roll over and over and on)

Got me to sleep tonight

Tonight
What’s holding me back?
This early in the morning (holding me back)
Early in the day
It’s holding me back


Don’t wanna fight it (early in the morning)
You would like to know

Don’t wanna fight it (early in the morning)
Early in the morning
(Early in the morning)


I’m in the dream tonight (all night)
Get up and fly tonight

I’m in a dream tonight (I roll over and over and on)

Got me to sleep tonight

Don’t wanna fight it early in the morning
You would like to know

Don’t wanna fight it early in the morning
Early in the morning
(Early in the morning)

Wouldn’t you like to know
I’m in a dream tonight

Don’t wanna fight it early in the morning (wouldn’t you like to know)
Early in the morning (I’m in a dream tonight)


Don’t wanna fight it early in the morning (wouldn’t you like to know)
Early in the morning (I’m in a dream tonight)

Don’t wanna fight it early in the morning (wouldn’t you like to know)
Early in the morning (I’m in a dream tonight)
You would like to know

Goodmorning april

This is a piece that I created with Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches.

https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures

It is a few years old now and getting a nice bloom. Narration: There is one stalker no one can avoid confronting, eventually. Are there minor ones, too, verging on the edge of physicality?

Lyrics copyright jo richter:

you don't see me walk the streets
in my infrared spray-tan
my ultraviolet hairdo
I was standing next to you
when you cracked that joke
about a one-eyed parakeet
with a lisp

you never knew I even existed
with my infrasound voice
and my bat-sonic footfall
I was approaching rapidly
when that car of yours
screeched to a halt
at the edge of the cliff
in the Carparthian mountains
that summer

you never gave in to the wind
I raised to blow you off-course
the pebbles thrown at your window
all that rigmarole ruckus
I raised to make you believe
in that which is me
like poltergeist ashes
blown to your doorstep

The Stalker - A collaboration with Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches

https://www.nts.live
https://www.instagram.com/nts_radio/

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