The Runes Project is a continuation of what began as a high school garage band called "Runesword" back in the 1980's. David Gines and Eric Sisler had big dreams in the day, but skills and equipment didn't quite match the dreams. As is sometimes the case, the two friends got caught up in life, taking different paths and eventually lost track of each other.

Fast forward 30 years and the two old friends found each other on Facebook after both had been successful tech nerds and each had maintained their love for music.  Dave continued playing in various bands over the years but Eric had only recently picked it back up after playing in a few bands in the late 80's. They decided, "Oh, what the hell!" and began writing and recording together again. Influences are an eclectic blend of 70's classic rock (Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rush) to 60's and 70's singer-songwriter (Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Don McLean, John Denver), to 80's Alternative (The Cure, Billy Bragg, U2, and others) and everything in between.  We hope you have as much fun listening as we have writing and recording, although we doubt it. :-)

Dennis the menace is born at Roermond 1980 (Netherlands) He started spinning records in 1994 at the age of 14. At a young age (10/12) he started playing drums so his feeling for rhythm was already fine. In the late 80's, early 90's he became obsessed by hip hop and became fascinated and curious by the dj skilss and wanted to find out how the Dj's mix,juggle and scratch the records into a straight mix. In the early 90's he became in touch with house music threw his brother. They trying to figure out due live cassette tapes from houseparty's from Parkzicht etc how the Dj's mix the records synchronous into each other. At that time they started to travel all across the country to the big recordstores and started to collecting oldschool and hardcore records. Because of his drumming background he become quickly a good beatmatching, scratching Dj, In 1995 the first live performance was a fact. At that same time he was also practicing his hip hop Dj skills and soon he would started to grown as a hip hop Dj also. In 1992 he met his mate and rapper Twan. Together they started a dutch hip hop duo and performed threw years as a warmup act for bands as Relax & Specially blended and the Osdorp Posse. At that same time he was also playing at Hardcore/Oldschool party's every weekend and became an respected local dj in the south of The Netherlands. He played at party's as Raving Nightmare, Harmony of Hardcore, Pandemonium,  Atomico and clubs at that time (Carte Blanche, Peppermill, etc) His mixingstyle is a combination of Oldschool,Hardcore,Breakbeats,Hardstyle,Jumpstyle,Retro,Early Rave. He's always trying to put a bit of his hip hop roots in the housemusic sound and so he became a talented, technical Dj with his own style! He was inspired by Hardcore dj's as Dj Darkraver, Dj Vince, Dj Panic, Dj Gizmo, Dj Rob, Dj Paul and Hip Hop Dj's as Jazzy Jeff, Mix Master Mike, Dj Premier, Q Bert.

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