Roland MC-101 - Cover of Heliosphan by Aphex Twin

[@robertstone8056]

some expert knob twiddling here

[@YershJRSZ]

One of the best AFX covers I've heard so far. There's something magical in this one track

[@paultdavies4418]

Wow, thank you!

[@HeraldOD]

This is probably one of the best Aphex recreations I've ever heard, nice work

[@paultdavies4418]

Thank you!

[@MrBasic]

Nice job! The 101 certainly is rad and worth of much praise.

[@gusiebussi]

It's amazing how good this version is!

[@austinhalpin5282]

I LOVE THIS

[@GuyFromNet]

I love how this one doesn't copy original, but convey familiar vibes. Kinda live version

[@iceleaps]

hey, you're here!

[@GuyFromNet]

@@iceleaps nice to meet ya

[@nalaeel219]

Sweet cover. Ty for sharing

[@BuckshotJones]

You nailed it! 💯 If you added the analog tape hiss then I wouldn’t know this wasn’t from Richard James himself. 👌

[@Chasing_Thoughts]

Great song great cover!🤟🏻

[@rayek4eq]

Pretty amazing feat

[@D-Rv8iv]

That was really good.

[@supracer2007]

Really enjoyed listening to this cover. Fantastic!!!

[@H3liosphan]

Yeah very nice. Very accurate but with a great personal spin on it.

[@tostare]

A lovely version of my favourite Aphex track. Nice work (and a nice advert for the MC101 too!).

[@jasonbesant4074]

Wow really well done cover. I love it!

[@tomfenn7149]

Very well done! I started trying to do a cover of Heliosphan on my Korg EM-1 mk1 electribe, but then the track wandered off and became something completely different! But this gives me the courage to go back and try again. I do wonder if Heliosphan was one of Richard's very early masterpieces (a masterpiece it certainly is, as too my favourite song ever by Aphex), seeing broken down it's in fact a very basic track and this would bode well back in the days when Aphex was using some crappy Yamaha 2-track sequencer? Just proves you don't need £££'s of gear to produce good music.

[@paultdavies4418]

Thank you! I love the fact that trying to replicate one song made you come up with something original - I'd be interested to hear that. And yes, I'm always fascinated when people can do a lot with a little.

[@louismerchant7725]

Absolutely gorgeous cover

[@shaft9000]

very nice, nails at least 95% this also reminds me how so much of mixing comes down to just two things: gain and reverb (x # of channels) the closed hat really misses that medium room reverb to blend and 'smear' the 32nds. however subtle, it changes the character of the whole mix.

[@alexandrospolitis80]

Bravo!!

[@Necrobot777]

Bravo!! I keep thinking about covering Low Cool from Cabaret Voltaire as a good excuse to finally import my samples from the film "My Crasy Life" into my Polyend Play and cross my fingers that Stephen Mallinder thinks I actually do it justice!

[@nicolaneeco]

very cool 🔥thanks for sharing

[@moks3274]

Love it!!!

[@kingwillie7501]

wow! this is pretty good..

[@skyleus]

Fantastic!

[@mauriciosanta8291]

Espero que AFX haya visto esto ya

[@Unifono2012]

very nice cover! I found the mc101 to be very good for getting these kind of vibes

[@paultdavies4418]

Cheers, it has its limits but it's a great but if kit.

[@NeoLudditevisons]

Spot on!

[@STMRecords1]

This is superb!

[@loomisrecords9559]

Brilliant, thank you.

[@rolandexclusive6306]

lovely

[@SmallBoxCentral]

Now this is epic

[@Master-gco46567]

Wow thanks the set)

[@shottskies]

The little powerhouse

[@nobel11]

Excellent cover!

[@paultdavies4418]

Thanks!

[@hellf.o]

Awesome! Subscribed

[@mona1035]

So good! Love it

[@fLIMERT]

cool think

[@vinz2k1983]

Ok now i need to buy it 😍

[@DiegoSimak]

Amazing

[@davidrobertson4301]

I would like to know how long it took you to set up the MC-101 in order to do this performance

[@shottskies]

Great work Paul. Great use of the 101

[@shaft9000]

I used to have the PMA-5 in the 90s, and the MC-101 reminds me very much of an evolution of that og box. I'd run patterns to the PMA-5 over MIDI from an MMT-8 and/or MacPlus running MasterTrax.

[@paultdavies4418]

Always been interested in the PMA-5.

[@jzolghadr]

Excellent

[@clucida]

I can't beleive it ! well done !

[@meesvandenberg9468]

Very well done!

[@KeithDuncanSound]

Nice

[@magnuseriksson8081]

Unreal! Best done on 101 so far. Is it all with Roland sounds that came with the 101?

[@paultdavies4418]

Thank you! All sounds are stock sounds except the snare drum which is sampled from Apache like the original.

[@soundnnvision]

Amazing!

[@SandroMassarani]

Great!!!

[@MarfilStudios]

Very nice.

[@behindyou666]

nicee

[@MaxKomori]

so where comes from the sample ? you can sample with the MC 101 ?

[@djheklio3622]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@missinforecordsltd]

what drums did u use?

[@paultdavies4418]

They're all stock MC-101 drums except the snare which is a sample from Apache. I'm afraid I can't remember exactly which kick and snare I used.

[@wafer_ex]

This sounds cleaner than the original о_о

[@paultdavies4418]

Well the original was a famously bad recording, but I think the cleanliness makes it lose something.

[@AaronHungwell]

Finally, a use for the Mc-101

[@ВадимПопов-ж5д]

Карновал в пони ясельках ^_^

[@TheSome01]

:)

[@barexampasser]

This sounds like silly goofy heliosphan

[@2222b-j3d]

fuuu perdun🙄🙄🙄🙄 fart fart😀😀😁😁😁😁😁😁🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢🤢

[@visitingstatue69]

everytime i hear this song, i hear green.. like a deep, forest green thats hollow. i also hear it with grimes' song Devon. lots of similarities

[@medardfischer]

Amazing!