Trueman (Red Crystal Dragon) was born in the city of Riga which has been based on the Baltic sea by saxon knights of Temple and always was a trading and cultural crossroads between eastern and the western Europe.

He has grown on electronic and psychedelic music of 70-80's. That fact that he was born in 1973 when german Kraftwerk have been just realised their album Radioativity and british Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon, influenced on him so much that since early years he began his own experiments with electronic music and video art using analog synthesizers and video cameras...

in early 90's he become a co-producer and one of the founder of the first electronic industrial band in Baltic and former Soviet Union, God's Delusion...he start to create experimental video art for live performances of his band...

dark wave techno industrial sound and strobing visuals full of kabalistic symbols and secret geometry figures was like a shock therapy for surprised audience and for skeptical art experts...making such unusual art experiments he tried to find out his unique individuality and way of self-expression in performances like this...

in 1994 he joined to the 3X Promo group which have been organized a first in Baltic series of Trance parties Turbulance, Dance-2-Trance, Euphoria, Hemp Attack...in 2000 he started creative colaborations with Barclay Dance Blend and with many other labels and club promoters... Trueman focused his attention mainly on a multimedia art, VJ-ing, 3d animation and video compositing...

2002 he was invited as main concept artist and creative director of V.I.Club studio which produced sport-travel-music-art shows and other content for TV channels...from all wide spectrum of directions project DVJ was especially interesting, represented artists of electronic music and vj's of different styles...he find out a good experience in creation of visual content for ambient and chillout music releases...

2005 Trueman has created a series of 3d animations for the brand new TV channel, the First Baltic music channel...also he worked on some commercials for the First Baltic Channel...

in 2006 he worked on advertising film and video playback for presentation of Chines company Unitek on the biggest in Europe international exhibition of IT technologies CeBIT 2006 in Hanover,Germany...he make this curious multimedia performance with one of the oldest german electro dj Ralf Koster a.k.a Ruftata110 · Raf Le Spoink founder of the project Musick For Our Children (MFOC) and with some others dj's from Hamburg St Pauli where he spend a good time enjoying German electronic music...after this impressing trip he continue to create a visual content for upcoming shows...

2007 spring,Easter... VJ Trueman have been invited to play his psychedelic visuals in London on Solaris club-night inspired by Trance music at 'Sound' a 3 floor club (previously 'Home' superclub), on 1 Leicester Square. It is put together by some previous producers of 'megatripolis' (club-night London circa 1993 - 1996) and various other club-nights...Trueman played his visuals on the main floor with JAMES MONRO (trance) flying in from Brazil Master P (Deep House) (housemaster) DJ T.K (House) Dave Jones (Soulful House)
http://www.myspace.com/solarisuk

the next great gig that he makes in London this year was a vjing on X-DREAM live at club Colosseum on Psy Invasion party where also played live: Compressor (UK) Dejavoo (Japan) ..Bizzare Comtact (Israel) and dj's set: Astralex (Austria)...Toxigen (Portugal) http://www.myspace.com/psyinvasion

in august Trueman participated on the ambient music and visual art festival Klusa Daba 2007 where he played visuals for unique ambient project from Sweden CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS
http://www.myspace.com/carbonbasedlifeforms

in november 2007 VJ Trueman joined DMT Divine Music Tribe and visual label EQUILOM... currently, he is working on creation of a visual content for upcoming shows....He also started to use a Pioneer DVJ-X1 and work on the developing of the future interactive multimedia art...

check out his visuals on the links below:

http://www.myspace.com/zalazar

http://www.youtube.com/ruslanzalazar

http://divinemusictribe.com

in progress:

http://equilom.com/