Boot Camp For the People (Duck Down/Priority/Virgin)

Though the album insert portrays Buckshot as a "Last Supper" Jesus amongst his Boot Camp disciples, the hollow production on For the People never approaches anything quite that holy. In his entrepreneurial determination, Buckshot has bogged himself down with launching Duck Down records and Boot Camp Wear while allowing novice producers to disappoint the very fans the album is dedicated to. All we ever wanted was the Cocoa Brovaz, Heltah Skeltah, Starang and Buck getting busy over Beat Minerz beats. Too much to ask? 7/10 (Manchilde)

Various Roger Sanchez: United DJs of America 8 (United DJs of America/Cargo)

UDofA go through the requisite "big" compilation motions: get a gold-card DJ to blend it, sign over some Cajmere tunes, disallow any fancy mixes and get a Mixmag journo to write leaflet crap about the evolution of dance music. In all, a great way to make this all-killer no-filler track listing (from Djaimin's panting "yeah-i-yeah-i-yeah" breakdowns on "Hindu Lover" to Braxton Holme's nuevo voguing anthem "The Revival") ferociously bland. This is Sanchez on auto-pilot. 7/10 (Mireille Silcott)

T-Model Ford Pee-Wee Get My Gun (Fat Possum/Epitaph)

After spending so many nights in jail that he can't even count 'em, Mississippi madman T-Model Ford finally got around to making this whomp-stompin' jukejoint debut at the age of 75. With drummer Spam kicking a boxtop beat as pure as the local hooch and raw blues ditties about crazy girlfriends and cold-blooded murder, by the time T-Model launches into "I'm Insane," you know this man lives by his word. 9/10 (Lorrie Edmonds)

Various Havana FM: Oscar G in 'da Mix (Kumba/Twisted/MCA)

Cheers, hats off and massive yippees to Oscar G! After the commercial terror of his Funky Green Dogs forays of '96, Murk's boy gives us Kumba records and a spate of new -ounding deep vocals. Most of Kumba's catalogue is mixed into this CD, along with live shout-outs from the artists over tracks. Check E-N's characteristic spooky horns, Roy Davis Jr.'s burble-core on "I'm tha DJ" and G's ingenious full-tonsil productions featuring the blustering Marck Michel (say hi to the new Michael Watford). 8/10 (Mireille Silcott) more discs...