Captain Pikant

We've reserved a seat for you :)

Hello everyone! It's been long in the making but now it's finally done! We've been dropping hints left and right, so you probably already have guessed that our giant project during the last months ...

Status Report

We're happy to announce that after another exciting week of filming, we've completely moved on to the post-production phase of our new video :)

It's now officially the longest video we've eve...

Deluge VS Hapax VS OXI VS Play

2023/12/15: Updated with remarks on the new Squarp Hapax 2.00 and OXI One 4.0 firmware features.

Which one of these is the best?

Many of you have been asking, but there reall...

Status Update

As you can see from the picture we are not just working "hard" but "harder" on the upcoming episode ;) It's shaping up to be one of the longest we've made yet and since we don't want to make any co...

L'Trimm - Cars With The Boom (Drum Pattern No. 103)

This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "L'Trimm - Cars With The Boom". It's such a fun song and since people commented that we didn't include any Miami Bass in our 2023-10-16 12:42:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Hardrive - Deep Inside (Drum Pattern No. 102)

This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Hardrive - Deep Inside" - a classic 909 house track by Little Louie Vega.

There are a lot of remixes of this track out there - one of my...

Status Update

Hello everyone! For the past week we've been filming the first part of our new video - which we've actually been preparing for a few months now. This is going to be a big one featuring brand new tr...

Edwin Birdsong - Cola Bottle Baby (Drum Pattern No. 101)

This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Edwin Birdsong - Cola Bottle Baby". A very obscure song from 1979 with a fantastically weird instrumentation. And with absolutely no relation ...

A short history of the 808 in 16 patterns

Hello everyone! Here's our love letter to the Roland TR-808 and the songs it has been inspiring for more than four decades now. As you might have guessed from the many new and updated 808 transcrip...

Daft Punk - Technologic (Drum Pattern No. 100)

This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Daft Punk - Technologic". Who needs more than 16 steps for an entire song? Not Daft Punk, that's for sure. This is the hypnotic, repetitive 80...

Status Update

Hello everyone! We have something to celebrate :) Our 100th drum pattern transcription is coming up next week. It will also be featured in our next video which we're filming right now.

In pre...

M.I.A. - Borders (Drum Pattern No. 99)

This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "M.I.A. - Borders". I adapted the beat to the 808, where the roots of this trap-influenced beat lie. It makes good use of accents and different...

Cybotron - Clear / Missy Elliott - Lose Control (Drum Pattern No. 98)

Double feature! This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Cybotron - Clear" / "Missy Elliott - Lose Control". Both songs have the same TR-808 beat, except Cybotron layered the Claps wi...

Captain Pikant on Bad Gear

Audiopilz invited us to join the cast in his big 100K subscriber special "The Roast of Bad Gear"! He gave us free rein for this ...

Kimbra - Cameo Lover (Drum Pattern No. 97)

Update 2023/08/24: Conga correction, 8raw8 sound sample

This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Kimbra - Cameo Lover". This track is from her debut album "Vows". It al...

Drum Patterns Explained: Word Up

Cameo's "Word Up" is as 80s as it gets - gated reverb and LinnDrum included. Since we get a lot of comments asking us about sound design we decided to also take an extended look behind the scenes a...

Drexciya - Andreaen Sand Dunes (Drum Pattern No. 96)

Happy 808 day everyone! This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Drexciya - Andreaen Sand Dunes". Like most of their work, Andreaen Sand Dunes harkens back to early Electro and Detroi...

Status Update

Hello everyone! We hope you're all doing well :) Here's what's going on in Beatbunny Studio right now:

• We just finished mixing the end jam for the next video
• Starting tomorrow ...
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T La Rock & Jazzy Jay - It's Yours (Drum Pattern No. 95)

This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "T La Rock & Jazzy Jay - It's Yours". This is a classic 808 pattern from the early days of hip hop. It's not as simple as you might first t...

Yellow Magic Orchestra - 1000 Knives (Drum Pattern No. 94)

This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Yellow Magic Orchestra - 1000 Knives". This brings the total knife count for this month up to 1001 ;)

Fun fact: Yellow Magic Orchestra w...

Drum Patterns Explained: Hunter by Björk

Upon innocently revisiting the transcription of Hunter I made last year I noticed a small mistake which kicked off a series of unfortunate(?) events and lead me down a rabbit hole. Did Mark Bell re...

Status Update

As you can see from the photo our next video will bring us into the wilderness... we even went outside to forage some props :D

We're already hard at work doing post-production on the episode ...

The Knife - Heartbeats (Drum Pattern No. 93)

This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "The Knife - Heartbeats". This was the very close runner-up of 2023-07-01 07:50:09 +0000 UTC View Post

OXI One Cheat Sheet

Update 2024/06/01 (for firmware 4.3.6)

I finally found some time to update the Cheat Sheet, just in time for the brand new firmware version 4.3.6 which was released yeste...