Rajaram
Rajaram or Raja Ram (Telugu: రాజారాం) is one of the Indian names:
- Rajaram Chhatrapati, ruled 1689–1700
- Rajaram II of Satara, putative grandson of Rajaram Chhatrapati, ruled 1749−1777
- Rajaram I, a Raja of Kolhapur 1866−1870
- Rajaram II, Maharaja of Kolhapur 1922−1940
Raja Ram (musician)
Raja Ram (born Ronald Rothfield, 18 December 1941) is an Australian-born musician and the owner of the United Kingdom record label Tip World. 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. He was a founding member of the psychedelic rock band, Quintessence, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, playing at the first two Glastonbury Festivals (then 'fayres') in 1970 and 1971.
Shortly after, Ram retired for personal reasons and became an envelope salesman. In the 1980s, he returned to his music career being interested in the emerging genre of electronic music. He was one of the first people to make what is today considered psychedelic trance.
Raja Ram formed TIP Records in 1994 with Graham Wood and Ian St. Paul. Richard Bloor/Rikki Rokkit then joined them and together they made TIP one of most well-known goa trance labels. After the label folded in 1998 Ram then founded Tip World in 1999 with Richard Bloor/Rikki Rokkit.
