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Artist
Bishop & Mulholland
5+ albums
electronicadance
about
“One part electronica, one part pop soul, one part techno party; it never seems to want to touch down, keeping the listener firmly planted in mid-air.” C.E. Moore for The Christian Manifesto Growing up on Technotronic, KLF and Dance Mix '92, Bishop & Mulholland (producer and vocalist Paul Dirks) was instilled early on with a love for big and brassy synthesizer lead lines. As "Renaud", Paul released a house/trance album in 2003 titled "Waiting For The Sunshine" that featured a positive uptempo vibe and soaring synth melodies; the latter which would later underpin his work as Bishop & Mulholland. While working at iZ Technologies (maker of RADAR Hard Disk Recorders) in Vancouver, BC he began developing a new paradigm that incorporated trip-hop influences and more varied song and vocal structures. At the time, most electronic groups were using female vocalists or male rappers (Massive Attack, Portishead) and Paul envisioned handling the production side while working with a female vocalist. His name for the projected duo? Bishop & Mulholland. While working on the songs, Paul began slowly to incorporate his own vocals. Wanting to eschew the light synth-pop feel of many of his contemporaries, he found inspiration in the soul greats of the past- The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations and Otis Redding. A series of robberies at his home in East Vancouver in 2004 resulted in the loss of much of his equipment, including his first synthesizer love- a Korg Prophecy.
