How do you know you've made it in the world of dance music? When you're releasing singles and remixes on labels such as Large Music, NRK, and Urban Torque? When you see your name appear on a roster of artists alongside Kerri Chandler, Ian Pooley, DJ Sneak and Funk D'Void? When you've released 100 tracks in 4 years to critical acclaim, built a worldwide fanbase and won the support of DJs including Danny Howells and Tom Middleton? However you look at it, Scope (Ric McClelland) is making a big noise and the unanymous decision is that it sounds good. Who better, then, to shine the spotlight on for the first in Urban Torque's "Focus On" series?

The follow up to his superb 'Studio Sessions', 'Focus On: Urban Torque Scope' is the cream of Scope's work so far for Urban Torque.

Hailing from Belfast, Northern Ireland, he describes himself as "all about house music" and it comes across. The tracks feel perfectly balanced. A piano riff here, a sprinkling of vocals there. And whilst largely instrumental, there is one word that continually springs to mind; a word that seems to crop up in print wherever Scope is mentioned and that word is: quality.