user18081971

In 2014, Richard D. James, aka Aphex Twin, started uploading hundreds of unreleased tracks to a SoundCloud account called user18081971. This site let listeners vote on them as a community.

The original site ran 2015–2019. This is the frozen archive of that campaign, plus a fresh ballot reopened with later user18081971 SoundCloud uploads added.

268 tracks · 123,779 historical vote actions · top track: 28 organ.

Voting is open again

A 2026 ballot is running at https://vote.user18081971.com/: monthly top 30, plus "loved" and "can't get into", covering the original voting catalogue and later user18081971 SoundCloud uploads. The relaunch chapter covers the vote reopening.

Where to start

• Vote, listen & playlists play all 300+ sc tracks and create your own playlists to share.
• Frozen final results, the top 30 the original campaign settled on.
• Explore over time, the four interactive views.
• Read the lore, what happened, with context.
• About this archive, colophon, takedown policy, analytics notice.