1200 micrograms
| 1200 micrograms | |
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.jpg) Raja Ram & Chicago at the 2006 Earthcore Festival |
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| General information | |
| origin | Spain |
| founding | 1999 |
| Current occupation | |
| Shajahan Matkin | |
| Joe Quinteros | |
| Raja Ram | |
| Chicago | |
1200 Micrograms (also: 1200 Mics ) are a psytrance group from Ibiza. Members are the Growling Mad Scientists Shajahan Matkin and Josef Quinteros, Raja Ram and Chicago .
history
Raja Ram came up with the idea for the project during a drug trip in Brazil.
The first single of the project 1200 Mics / The Warp was released in 1999 on the TIP.World label. The project's self-titled debut album followed in 2002, also on TIP.World. The music pieces were named after the hallucinogens Ayahuasca , DMT , Mescaline , LSD , Marijuana , Hashish , Ecstasy , Magic Mushrooms and Salvia divinorum . They contained numerous quotes from the ethnobotanist Terence McKenna as well as samples from films such as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Matrix .
The second album, Heroes of the Imagination, was dedicated to scientists such as Leonardo da Vinci , Galileo Galilei , Michael Faraday , Albert Einstein , Charles Babbage , Albert Hofmann , Francis Crick , James D. Watson and Tim Berners-Lee . It contained the hit Acid for Nothing , which was a trance version of Dire Straits Money for Nothing .
The third album The Time Machine was released in 2004. This was followed by a live and a remix album, before a new studio album with Magic Numbers was released in 2007 .
In November 2016 the EP Ritualism was released .
Discography (selection)
Albums
- 2002: 1200 micrograms (TIP.World)
- 2003: Heroes Of The Imagination (TIP.World)
- 2004: The Time Machine (TIP.World)
- 2005: Live In Brazil (TIP.World)
- 2006: Remixes (TIP.World)
- 2007: Magic Numbers (TIP.World)
- 2010: Gramology (TIP.World)
- 2012: 96% (EP) (TIP World)
- 2013: A Trip Inside The Outside (EP) (TIP World)
- 2013: 1200 Mic’s (TIP World)
EPs
- 2016: Ritualism EP (TIP World)
Web links
- 1200 micrograms at tiprecords.com
- 1200 micrograms at Myspace
- 1200 Micrograms at Discogs (English)