Way back in late 2006, two sassy ladies from the U.K., Lily Allen and Lady Sovereign, battled for buzz -- even though Sov's hardscrabble hip-hop and Allen's cheeky reggae-pop confections were stylistic opposites.Weirdly enough, both women are set to release new music this week. Snag an S-O-V MP3 called "I Got You Dancing" at her MySpace page today, and get set to grab a new Lily Allen song, "The Fear," tomorrow. (A video for the latter is already floating around; check it out after the jump.) On
Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry and synthetic to wet and gushy), rhythm tracks can be tempo-tweaked with an upward toggle to change a Timbaland beat into a Chromeo one. Add some T-Pain-esque pitch-correction vocals to your between
