1200 Micrograms - Retro Set Tip Records

🎧 Subscribe: @AvalaTranstation 1200 Micrograms (sometimes credited as 1200 Mics) are a psychedelic trance act formed in Ibiza in 1999-. The members are Riktam and Bansi who are the duo also comprising ., and Raja Ram and Chicago. The band split up in late following ongoing disputes; Riktam was fed up writing all the music and splitting the money three ways, while Raja Ram and Chicago became irritated at Riktam and Bansi’s unreliability in turning up for performances. The name 1200 Micrograms comes from a reference to the amount of LSD that it would take to dose the four members of the group. A Terence McKenna quotation sampled in the track ’Salvia Dinivorum ’: “A substance so powerful that 300 micrograms is the dose. That means 1 gram will dose 7000 people“. 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 mak