1200 Micrograms

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, Raja Ram and Chicago.Raja Ram is Australian, but has lived in London for over 30 years. Bansi and Riktam are Dutch, and Chicago is American, and the 3 live on Ibiza island, Spain. The name 1200 Micrograms comes from Raja Ram taking an accumulation of 1200 micrograms of LSD during the week while working on the groups first album. Raja Ram told his friend Paul Taylor, "God Paul I took 1200 micrograms!" Their music is known for the heavy use of guitars, and the first album focussed on themes related to mind/consciousness-expansion, and the various drugs which open the door to exploring new dimensions beyond normal consciousness.

The idea for starting the project allegedly came to Raja Ram while he was in his hammock in Brazil, on a magic drop, thinking about making an album about the mind-opening drugs he and the band feel can be important tools for personal growth. Thus, their first, self-titled album featured 9 tracks about Ayahuasca and DMT, Mescaline, LSD, Marijuana and Hashish, Ecstasy, Magic Mushrooms, Salvia Divinorum. 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. "Mescaline", to this day, is perhaps their biggest hit of all, the most requested by fans around the world.

The second album, Heroes of the Imagination, was dedicated to famous inventors and scientists who dramatically contributed to, or changed,our lives, including Leonardo Da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Charles Babbage, Albert Hofmann, Francis Crick, James D. Watson, and Tim Berners-Lee. Includes Electricity, Computers, the Internet, and the Discovery of LSD. 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").

The 3rd album was called The Time Machine...where the band travelled back in the machine to famous places and times in the past - - The Creation of the Universe, Stonehenge, Ancient India and Egypt and Greece, even into the future with another big hit Rock Into The Future, featuring powerful guitars. They were then able to weave in Arabic, Indian, Celtic, and Greek (from Zorba) music with their full-power trance.

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