15 of the best untitled tracks

Track titles can be a tough nut to crack in dance music. With productions that often lack discernible vocals or clear themes to give them their name, titling your work isn’t always a straightforward decision. When you’re just looking to tear up a dancefloor — what’s in a name? Fortunately, there’s an easy get-around when you’re really stuck.

There are plenty of producers who’ve plumped for the functional, somewhat antithetical ‘Untitled’ title over the years. It can be a chore to find said tracks online, and throw an ‘Unknown Artist’ alias into the mix and you have a cocktail of mystery, obscurity, and annoyance for any crate digger, be it digital or physical. But the bear hunt adventure of traipsing through ‘Untitled’ tracks can lead you to some absolute hidden gems.

We’ve put together a list of the 15 best ‘Untitled’ tracks to have made it out of the Discogs archive and onto our USBs.

Released back in 1999, and perhaps a prototype for some of the others to follow in this list, is Grain’s ‘Untitled B1’. Grain (AKA Artwork) loops choppy vocals under a myriad of tribal-influenced drums, before stripping the groove down bare. The vocals make a return as track progresses, allowing the groove of the drums to flourish and keep your feet shuffling.

On this deep house cut, Sanjay (a portmanteau alias for Sandy and Jayson from Kings of Tomorrow) fuses thumping house kicks with short organ stabs to make this ‘90s house heater, earning a repress on Plastik People’s ‘90’s House Collection Sampler Two’ EP in 2016. Released back in 1997, this track stands the test of time, and could easily be a peak-time set highlight in 2025.

With an eerily similar opening chord progression to Joy Orbison’s post-dubstep classic ‘Hyph Mngo’, Willow’s ‘Untitled B2’ was destined for greatness upon its 2016 release. Going down a minimal route, the Manchester producer creates a dark atmosphere through distant vocal croons with the support of a gorgeous sub bass.

After its 2024 release, Leod’s ‘Untitled 04’ was among the top contenders for the song of the summer. Becoming a staple in the sets of Four Tet, Daphni, Jamie xx and Ben UFO, this cut cropped up in many a club set and SoundCloud mix, and since then, Leod has released a stellar run of minimal yet groovy tracks.

Originally released as a bonus track on Drum Club’s 1994 album ‘Drums are Dangerous’, this track was re-released in 2022 by Transmigration, the Berlin-based record label run by David Fogarty. Over 12 minutes of trance-inducing synths, call-and-response vocal chops, and guttural noises collide to make perhaps the most psychedelic track on this list.

Here’s some classic 303 acid stuff. French producer Binary Digit delivers catchy and euphoric chords that are sure to stay in your head – a certified speedy earworm.

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Semi-anonymous project DJ Hedoni$t (said to feature Lipelis and friends) is known for enjoying the “mystery” of an untitled track. With this cut released on the enigmatic London label Mysticisms, DJ Hedoni$t creates a glitchy, at times rough and groovy house track – also managing to scratch an analogue itch.

Glorious chimes contrast crunchy breaks on this Skee Mask track, a standout cut in Leon Vynehall’s ‘fabric presents’ mix. ‘Untitled 279’ isn’t the first ambiguously-named track from Skee Mask, adding to a collection of self-released projects mysteriously named ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’. This track is sure to stay with you after one listen, and if played on a good system, would no doubt rattle some eardrums.

This tech-house tune was originally featured on the behemoth compilation ‘#savefabric’, released as part of a fundraiser to save the London club after its temporarily enforced closure in 2016. Amongst 111 tracks, Berlin producer Hamid delivers a brilliant contribution that is a standout cut amongst household techno and house names such as Mathew Jonson, Rrose and Route 94.

Chicago legend Chez Damier is a legend in house music. With this track, he navigated through thumping kick drums, various vocal chops and delayed electric organs. Despite being the oldest track on this list with a 1993 release date, it could definitely get any dancefloor moving today.

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Taken from his 2020 Nous’klaer Audio EP titled ‘Horizon’, Pugilist’s ‘Untitled’ comes in at a lengthy 10 minutes. Unsurprisingly, as with many of Pugilist’s productions, this track retains an interesting flow through its slow burning, percussive elements that gradually join the textural development before a crashing crescendo of a drop halfway through the song’s runtime.

Pearson Sound might be the first person to admit he’s not always been the best with names, having started his career under the ill-suited Ramadanman alias, which he later phased out. The quality of his music speaks for itself, though, and this 2012 track is a fine example. His signature drums dance around glitchy yet soulful vocals and moans, as luscious pads lead to its peak.

‘Untitled 03’, released on Bristol label HARDLINE by Million & Job de Jong, flaunts a funky bassline and groovy drums to create the perfect canvas for a good garage adlib. The additional vinyl crackle adds an air of authenticity, nodding to the original era of unidentifiable white label untitled records.

Another one heavy on the percussion, this cut from Al Wootton — FKA Deadboy and one third of Holy Tongue — is rooted in raw techno. Further developments of this sound have come in the form of his ‘Snake Dance’ EP on UK techno label Livity Sound in 2020, which fans of this untitled track could equally enjoy.

Untitled tracks might allow an artist to fly under the radar with club edits of a favourite pop song or refresh an old disco track — or in the case of SZCH, remix a classic like 52nd Street’s ‘Tell Me (How It Feels)’. Revitalising the 1985 original into a club-ready disco house track, the Croatian producer knows how to add a bit of colour to old tracks, also producing a lovely Michael Jackson edit for the A side of this EP.

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