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Unreferenced|date=September 2009Infobox musical artist| name = 1200 Micrograms| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Ibiza , Spain | genre = Psytrance (Full On style) Electronica | years_active = 1999–present| label = TIP World | associated_acts = C.R.M.B., Electric Scientists, G.M.S. , Growling Machines, Growling Mad Synchro, Growling Moon Spirits, Growlmonizer, Harmonix, Inner Reflextions, Meathead Productions, Shpongle , Soundaholix, Sound Farmers, Spacedrifters, Systembusters, Twisted Allstars, Zorba, Quintessence (English band)|Quintessence , The Mystery of the Yeti , The Infinity Project | website = http://www.spunrecords.org www.spunrecords.org| current_members = Riktam Matkin Bansi Quinteros Raja Ram (musician)|Raja Ram Chicago (Trance artist)|Chicago | past_members = 1200 Micrograms (also known as 1200 Mics , or 1300 Mics ) is a psychedelic trance act from Ibiza . The members are Riktam and Bansi from GMS (music group)|GMS , Raja Ram (musician)|Raja Ram and Chicago (Trance artist)|Chicago . Raja Ram is Australian, but has lived in London for over 30 years. Bansi and Riktam are Dutch, Chicago is American, and the 3 live on Ibiza (island)|Ibiza Island, Spain . The name 1200 Micrograms comes from Raja Ram taking 1200 micrograms of LSD while working on the group's first album. Raja Ram told his friend Paul Taylor, "God Paul I took 1200 micrograms!" Citation needed|date=July 2010 Their 1st album is its use of themes related to mind/consciousness-expansion.
The idea for starting the project allegedly came to Raja Ram (musician)|Raja Ram while he was hallucinating in his hammock in Brazil. Thus, their first, self-titled album featured 9 tracks about Ayahuasca , Dimethyltryptamine|DMT , Mescaline , LSD , cannabis (drug)|Marijuana , Hashish , Ecstasy (drug)|Ecstasy , Psilocybin mushrooms|Magic Mushrooms and Salvia Divinorum . The tracks featured many quotes from Terence McKenna and samples from movies such as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Matrix .
The second album, Heroes of the Imagination , was dedicated to famous inventor s and scientist s who dramatically contributed to, or changed, the course of history, including Leonardo da Vinci , Galileo Galilei , Michael Faraday , Albert Einstein , Charles Babbage , Albert Hofmann , Francis Crick , James D. Watson , and Tim Berners-Lee . This album also contains the 2003 party hit, Acid for Nothing ; a trance remix of Dire Straits ' Money for Nothing (song)|Money for Nothing which samples lines from the movie Waking Life (the track also replaced the phrase "I want my MTV " with "I want my LSD ").
The 3rd album was called The Time Machine (1200 Mics album)|The Time Machine . Its songs were influenced by famous places and times in the past -- Big Bang|The Creation of the Universe , Stonehenge , Ancient India and Ancient Egypt|Egypt and Ancient Greece|Greece .
Discography
1200 Micrograms (album)|1200 Micrograms (TIP World 2002)
Heroes of the Imagination (TIP World 2003)
The Time Machine (1200 Mics album)|The Time Machine (TIP World 2004)
Live in Brazil (1200 Micrograms album)|Live in Brazil (TIP World 2005)
1200 Micrograms Remixed (TIP World 2006)
Magic Numbers (album)|Magic Numbers (TIP World 2007)
Gramology (EP) (TIP World 2010)
See also
Raja Ram (musician)|Raja Ram
Shpongle
GMS (music group)
Chicago (trance artist)
External links
MySpace|1200micsmusic
Category:Goa trance musical groups Category:Psychedelic trance musical groups
