1200 Micrograms
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-->1200 Micrograms (sometimes credited as 1200 Mics or 1300 Mics) is a psychedelic trance act from Ibiza. The members are Riktam and Banzi, from G.M.S., Raja Ram and Chicago. The name 1200 Micrograms comes from a Terence McKenna quote "A substance so powerful that 300 micrograms is the dose. That means 1 gram will dose 7000 people." This same sample is used in the track "Salvia Divinorium" on the 1200 Micrograms album. Their music is known for the heavy use of guitars and a focus on themes related to drugs.
The idea for starting the project allegedly came to Raja Ram while he was thinking about making an album about his favorite drugs. 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").
Although immensely popular on the scene, 1200 Mics received a few negative reviews because their albums felt rushed and sounded too much like eurodance.
Releases
- 1200 Micrograms (TIP World 2002)
- Heroes of the Imagination (TIP World 2003)
- The Time Machine (TIP World 2004)
- Live in Brazil (TIP World 2005)
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