1200 Micrograms

1200 Micrograms (sometimes credited as 1200 Mics or 1300 Mics) is a psychedelic trance act from Ibiza. The members are Riktam, Bansi 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 drugss.

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 and 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.

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