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Raja Ram (born Ronald Rothfield, 18 December 1940) is an Australian-born musician and the owner of the United Kingdom record label Tip World. He was a founding member of the psychedelic rock band Quintessence in the late 1960s and early 1970s, playing at the first two Glastonbury Fayres in 1970 and 1971. He later found success in the psychedelic trance scene and continues to headline at large events worldwide.

Early life[edit]

Ram left Australia in the 1950s to begin the hippie trail. He returned to Australia later and studied flute at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Ram travelled to New York in 1965 to study jazz, leading to his career as a psychedelic musician. Ram retired from Quintessence in the 1970s for personal reasons and became an envelope salesman.^{[citation needed]}

Ram later returned to his music career, finding success in the emerging genre of electronic music. He was one of the first people to make what is today considered psychedelic trance.^{[citation needed]}

1200 Micrograms are one the leading Global Psy Trance acts without doubt. The combination of GMS with Raja Ram and his buddy Chicago make for action packed music. Forget Beats Per Minute with 1200 Mics, its Thrills Per Minute (145TPM). And when they take it on tour, its a headline act that delivers.hysteria. Listen to music by 1200 Micrograms on Apple Music. Find top songs and albums by 1200 Micrograms including Acid for Nothing, Lsd and more.

Career[edit]

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Raja Ram formed The Infinity Project in 1994 with Graham Wood and Ian St. Paul. The first TIP Records track was celebrated by throwing the first of the 'TIP parties.' Some of the first tracks were produced of Martin Freeland of Man With No Name fame. Richard Bloor then joined them and together they made TIP one of the best-known Goa trance labels.

Aside from The Infinity Project, Ram created Shpongle with Simon Posford and collaborated with a group of Goa musicians to make two ambient albums as The Mystery of the Yeti. He is a founder of 1200 Micrograms along with Riktam, Bansi and Chicago. He often plays the flute on both ambient and full on tracks and has played as guest flautist with Youth, Boy George and Sly & Robbie. He also has collaborated in The Zap! and Cyberbabas with Benji Vaughan.

Ram is married to Nita Devi, with whom he has a daughter named Sastra. He also has a granddaughter named Bella.

Projects[edit]

• 1200 Micrograms
• The Zap!
• Cyberbabas
• Omputer
• DMT
• Tipnotic
• Visible Sound

Discography[edit]

• Raja Ram's Stash Bag (2002)
• Raja Ram's Stash Bag Volume 2 (2003)
• Raja Ram's Stash Bag Vol. 3 – Smokers Jokers and Midnight Tokers (2004)
• Raja Ram's Stash Bag Vol. 3 – Smokers Jokers and Midnight Tokers (Unmixed Edition) (2004)
• Most Wanted Presents: Raja Ram the Godfather (2005)
• Evolution of Expanded Consciousness (2006)
• Raja Ram's Stash Bag Volume 4 (2006)
• The Anthology (2007)
• Raja Ram's Pipe Dreams (2013)
• Raja Ram's Pipe Dreams 2 (2013)
• Raja Ram's Stash Bag Volume 5 (2014)
• Raja Ram's Stash Bag Vol. 6 (2018)

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GMS (also known as the Growling Mad Scientists) were a Dutchpsychedelic trance duo which has attained significant popularity, beginning in the early 1990s. Formed by Shajahan Matkin (also known as Riktam) and Joseph Quinteros (also known as Bansi) in the city of Amsterdam, located in the west of The Netherlands, the duo has attracted a large international fanbase. GMS founded Spun Records in 1999, the first psychedelic trance label in the United States and Ibiza, Spain.^{[citation needed]}

In 2008, GMS left Spun Records to further concentrate on their own careers and had created in 2009 a new label to release all of their music from their own various bands called Starbox Music.

They have sold over 350.000 copies worldwide. Director Tony Scott used GMS tracks in his films Man on Fire, Domino and Unstoppable.

GMS won the Psy-Trance award twice (in 2001 and 2009) at the DJ Awards in Ibiza, Spain.

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Members[edit]

Riktam[edit]

Shajahan Matkin (Riktam) was born in 1976 in Amsterdam Holland. He met his co-member Bansi in a coffee shop when he was 14 years old. When he was 15 he left school and went to India where he travelled to Goa to experience his first trance parties. After returning to Amsterdam in 1995 from another trip to India, he started making music with his friend Bansi. They created a group called the Growling Mad Scientists or GMS as it became known. Now he lives in Ibiza, Spain and DJs and produces live shows around the world at various functions.

Bansi[edit]

Joseph Quinteros (Bansi) who was born in Barcelona in 1976. He played the drums for six years, starting at the age of 11. He also played bass and guitar, since his father was a musician. At 14 he met Riktam and after going to Goa together they founded GMS. He also lived in Ibiza and toured the world on a constant basis. He died on 19 June 2018 at the age of 41 from blood cancer.^[1]

Discography[edit]

Albums[edit]

Studio albums

• Chaos Laboratory (1997)
• The Growly Family (1998)
• GMS vs Systembusters (1999)
• Tri-Ball University (2000)
• The Hitz (2000)
• No Rules (2002)
• Emergency Broadcast System (2005)

Remix albums

• The Remixes (Spun, 2003)
• The Remixes Vol2 (Starbox, 2009)
• Tampered Diversity (Future Music Records, 2018)

Compilation albums

• Genetic Process (Spun, 2002)
• Genetic Process 'Part Dose' (Spun, 2002)
• Spunout (Spun, 2003)
• Pressure (Spun, 2003)
• Zero-1 (Spun, 2003)
• Hypernova (Spun, 2004)
• XXL (Spun, 2004)
• Remote Viewing (Spun, 2005)
• Zero Gravity (Spun, 2005)
• The Outer Limits (Spun, 2005)
• Spunout in Ibiza (Spun, 2007)

Recognitions[edit]

Awards[edit]

Ibiza DJ Awards

• 2001 Best International DJ Psychedelic Trance^[2]
• 2009 Best International DJ Psychedelic Trance^[3]

References[edit]

1. ^'Produtor e DJ Bansi GMS morreu após luta contra forma rara de cancro'. Noticiasaominuto.com. 19 June 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
2. ^'Ibiza DJ Awards 2001 award page'. Archived from the original on 2009-02-06.
3. ^'Ibiza DJ Awards 2009 award page'. Archived from the original on 2011-09-26.

External links[edit]

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• Growling Mad Scientists Official Site
• Growling Mad Scientists at MySpace
• Growling Mad Scientists at SoundCloud

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