1200
Micrograms
1200 Micrograms
Origin Amsterdam, Netherlands
Genres Psychedelic trance
Electronica
Years active 1999–present
Labels TIP World
1200
Micrograms are a psychedelic trance act from Ibiza. The
members
are Riktam and Bansi, from GMS, Raja Ram and Chicago. The name 1200
Micrograms comes from a Raja Ram taking a 1200 microgram dose of LSD
while working on the groups first album. Raja Ram told his friend Paul
Taylor, "God Paul I took 1200 micrograms!" (Raja was experiencing
mental block on a specific track and took this dose of LSD in order to
finish the track). Their music is known for the heavy use of guitars
and a focus on themes related to the places where they sampled drugs.
The
idea for starting the project allegedly came to Raja Ram while he was
thinking about making an album about the drugs he was on in his
favorite places. Thus, their first, self-titled album featured 9 tracks
about Ayahuasca, Hashish, Mescaline, LSD, Marijuana, Ecstasy, Magic
Mushrooms, Salvia Divinorum and DMT. Not surprisingly, the tracks
featured many quotes from Terence McKenna and samples from movies like
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The album has been a big success, and
1200 Mics even released a Marijuana music video in 2003.
The
second album, Heroes of the Imagination, was dedicated to famous
inventors and scientists, 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 (the track also replaced the phrase "I want
my MTV" with "I want my LSD").
Discography:
1200 Micrograms (TIP World 2002)
Heroes of the Imagination (TIP World 2003)
The Time Machine (TIP World 2004)
Live in Brazil (TIP World 2005)
1200 Micrograms Remixed (TIP World 2006)
Magic Numbers (TIP World 2007)
