Photograph of the original BreakOut article from 2011.[1]
6 Rough-Mixes / 3 Mixes is a demo by Rammstein. It was released in 1995.
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This demo tape was sent out by Motor Music to promote the upcoming release of the debut album Herzeleid.
The tape was first shown publicly in the German music magazine BreakOut.
The first six tracks are rough mixes, the last three tracks are mixes.
After the article became more known among fans, fakes of the tape quickly surfaced on eBay.[2]
The rough mixes sound muffled on this tape: they lack most of their treble, and the left and right tracks are misaligned by about 0.2 ms (a tape-head alignment error). Detail above about 12 kHz cannot be recovered.
Laichzeit plays about 2 % faster than the rest of the tape, so it was probably dubbed separately. Corrected, it matches the album version.
Fleisch plays one semitone higher and about 6 % faster than the album version, at 140 bpm. This is not a dubbing error: the demos and all known live versions are in the same higher key, and the album version runs at exactly a semitone below 140 bpm. The album version was therefore most likely slowed down by a semitone after this rough mix. At the tape's own speed, the song has a length of 3:23.
