[untitled]: A Home for the Music Before the Release

There’s a strange gap in the way we make and consume music.

On one side, you have the DAW — where a song is created, recorded and developed. On the other, you have Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming platforms, where the finished product lives.

But what happens in between?

That’s the space [untitled] was built for.

Founded by childhood friends Dan Lilienthal and José Chayet, [untitled] is designed as a private home for work-in-progress music: a place where artists can store, listen to, organize and share the music that hasn't made it to the world yet.

In an interview with Big Ass Kids, the founders discuss the rise of the DIY artist and the changing way musicians create, manage and release their work. Their conversation provides some useful context for understanding the thinking behind [untitled] and why a platform built around unreleased music makes sense today.

[untitled] Co-founders Dan Lilienthal & José Chayet

Read the full interview with [untitled] co-founders Dan Lilienthal and José Chayet: “On the Rise of the DIY Artist” — Big Ass Kids

For independent artists especially, that space can be incredibly useful.

Instead of having demos scattered across Voice Memos, Dropbox, WhatsApp and random folders, [untitled] gives the creative process somewhere to live. Artists can keep different versions of songs together, share them privately with collaborators and continue developing projects without treating every file like a finished release.

And that's really the appeal.

[untitled] isn't trying to replace your DAW or become another streaming service. It's focused on the part of an artist's journey that usually gets overlooked: the unfinished music.

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For artists increasingly doing everything themselves, having a dedicated space to organize and share that work can make the creative process a lot less chaotic.

Sometimes the most important part of a record isn't the final version.

It's everything that happened before it.