The title—a pun mixing the German noun Rauschgift ("narcotics") with the verb lauschen ("to listen, to eavesdrop")—was inspired by a scene in the film Breakfast at Tiffanys. The German-language dub of the film, in which
I. Y. Yunioshi mispronounces the word Rauschgift, was sampled on the album's first track.
The title—a pun mixing the German noun Rauschgift ("narcotics") with the verb lauschen ("to listen, to eavesdrop")—was inspired by a scene in the film Breakfast at Tiffanys. The German-language dub of the film, in which
I. Y. Yunioshi mispronounces the word Rauschgift, was sampled on the album's first track.