The infectious Illegal dominated the pop landscape last year, and PinkPantheress was open about how its central Underworld sample was integral to its making. Let’s take it apart and rebuild it ourselves…

“I don’t even know what the genre is. It’s just me and A G Cook and Finn Keane, doing our thing"

We get creative with an effects chain inspired by Jon Hopkins, and a heavy dose of felt piano

Cribbing from a Bollywood film soundtrack and the chords of Bond maestro John Barry, Toxic's extraordinary sound led it to become one of Britney’s biggest hits

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Snow Patrol's 2006 monster became one of the biggest radio songs of all time, but why did it work so well?

No more staring at a blank screen or endlessly auditioning loops. Here’s how to make that track idea a final, finished reality

A few years ago, if someone told me that award-winning photographs could be captured on a device sitting in your pocket, I probably would’ve smiled and changed the subject. Today? Not a chance. After spending time studying the winning images from the 35AWARDS Mobile Photography category, one thing became crystal clear: mobile photography is no […]

Get the technical know-how required to make great remixes with these essential techniques

Every great street photograph starts with a simple question: what happens when light meets shadow? I’ve spent countless hours studying the work of master street photographers, and one thing keeps showing up again and again. It’s not the camera. It’s not the lens. It’s not even the location. It’s the way these photographers use light […]

Street photography has never been more popular. With over 134 million #streetphotography posts on Instagram and an explosion of dedicated collectives …

We take a deeper look at the theory underpinning Ryuichi Sakamoto’s gorgeous, award-winning theme from the movie that gave him his acting and scoring debut

Learn to play acoustic and electric guitar in record time with our guide to easy-to-read notation

Small details often go unnoticed. However, in macro photography for beginners, those details become the subject. Tiny textures, patterns, and shapes suddenly feel larger than life. You don’t need complicated gear to start. Instead, you need curiosity and attention to detail. What Is Macro Photography? Macro photography for beginners focuses on capturing subjects at a very close distance. As a…

"I don't think I've ever told Paul that. He's probably gonna say ‘I should have gotten royalties’”

“I started taking piano lessons when I was six years old. I think my mum wanted to learn when she was little but never had the chance, so she kind of …

Can it compete with Randy Newman and Sarah McLachlan's gut-wrenching effort from Toy Story 2, though?

There are lots of ways to adjust the view of objects in the preview window but a simple one, that is often overlooked, is the Clipping View tool. We’ve just made a simple object, a fusion of two cylinders and a cube on the part workbench, to explore the clipping view functions. Note that the […]

Parsing raw wikitext into a clean text corpus is notoriously hard. Databricks engineers used Wikimedia Enterprise's Structured Contents endpoints and Apache Spark to convert millions of Wikipedia articles to Markdown at scale, skipping the regex-heavy parsing layer entirely.

There’s something wildly powerful about black and white portraiture. Strip away the noise of color, and suddenly every wrinkle, shadow, stare, and tiny human emotion hits differently. A soulful black-and-white portrait doesn’t just show a face; it tells a story. It feels poetic, raw, cinematic, and deeply personal all at once. That’s why some of […]

Shot on mobile: The vivo X300 FE Field Test Photographers once hesitated to use smartphones for gallery work, but that boundary has vanished. Mobile technology now allows us to capture print-ready frames without hauling heavy gear up mountains or through cities. To see how far mobile gear has come, we handed the new vivo X300 FE and its 200mm Telephoto Extender to a few 500px creators, asking…

"They don’t have to worry about the song," he argues

Setting out her stall as one of the greatest artists of the 2020s, Olivia Dean’s 2023 breakthrough cribbed from the past to evoke the euphoria of falling in love

There’s something wildly addictive about cinematic street photography. One frame, one frozen second, and suddenly the city feels like a scene ripped straight out of a noir film or an indie masterpiece. The glow of neon signs bouncing off wet pavements, strangers framed inside café windows, tired commuters staring through metro glass, silhouettes crossing golden […]

Since version 1.0 FreeCAD has had the Measure tool, a persistent tool available across all workbenches. Let’s take a quick look through it in use using version 1.1.1. We’ve got a project that is a small flat part with fillets in the corners and a collection of holes and slots, but you can play with […]

The reason Gorillaz biggest track lingers in the mind longer than others is down to its tightly-constructed arrangement

Creating your own handmade postcard artworks is always exciting, because you can make absolutely anything on your surface. But this might...

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We analyse the un-escapable groove of Feels - which knowingly doffed its cap at Earth, Wind & Fire

Street photography isn’t just about people, it’s about light. And more importantly, it’s about what happens when light meets shadow. That split second where a subject walks into a beam of sunlight while everything else fades into darkness? That’s the shot. That’s the magic. The streets are basically a live stage, constantly shifting with changing […]

Bird photography hits different. It’s fast, unpredictable, and honestly a little addictive once you get into it. One second, the scene is calm, next thing you know, a bird launches into flight, wings slicing through the air, and you’ve got a split second to nail the shot. That’s the thrill right there. But here’s the […]