Ash Ra Tempel - s/t

Hey, did you know that Krautrock is considered a sub-genre of Progressive rock by almost everyone in the known universe? 'Cause I may have been the only person immersed in the music who bobbed around in eye-popping stupidity with the languid notion that krautrock was apparently the product of NOTHING. How did I become aware of this ? Ever had one of those moments where you blissfully and confidently recite your beliefs about one thing or another to get a blank response and have that person hesitantly ask you whether you're jerking them around or not? Worse yet, that you're an insufferable hair splitter??
Here's an impression of a recent dialogue of mine:

Me: I've been diggin' the avant-prog silliness lately. Any suggestions?
Record Store Owner: Is silliness the key word?
Me: Not necessarily, although it's certainly not a trait I'd distance myself from...
Record Store Owner: Well, you could check out Magma, Van Der Graaf Generator, all the Twink-relative bands, Faust-
Me: DUH, FAUST ARE PROGRESSIVE? HUH HUH, MOAR LIEK KRAUTROCK LOL XD (takes an enormous shit on the counter)
Record Store Owner: ...

NEVERMIND THE NUMEROUS STYLISTIC SIMILARITIES AND MY AWARENESS OF KRAUTROCK'S ARRIVAL WITHIN THE PROGRESSIVE/MINIMALIST/PSYCHEDELIC BOOM, KRAUTROCK CONDENSED FROM THE CHILD-LIKE CURIOSITIES BURIED IN THE HEARTS OF GROWN MEN, THE TOILS OF THE POST-WW II GERMAN NATION, AND THE INTANGIBLE PRESENCE OF AN OTHERWORLDY HIERARCHY.

Ash Ra Tempel is/was a power-trio (as well as a self-titled 1971 debut) featuring members of Tangerine Dream and Cosmic Jokers I've been enjoying immensely ever since I pressed Lex-Devil's Dave Lang for reccomendations. Much like krautbuddies Guru Guru, Ash Ra was a sort of rock'n'roll blitzkrieg unit that hinged their sound on crazy-ass guitar freakouts and lusciously spacey ambience provided by effect-pedals and urm, "electronics". Look, that's what it says on the sleeve. "Electronics".
Like every subsequent Ash Ra album I've conquered up to this point, side one ("Amboss", in this case) is a vinyl-side monolith of powerhouse riffin' and noisemakin', while side two is a more ambient, psyched-out affair replete with a huge percussionless stretch of atmosphere and some ethereal, near operatic howling.
Oh. Which is entitled "Traummaschine". Forgot to parenthese that 'un.

http://www.mediafire.com/?enmvz5mwbxz

By the way, I always upload the albums in 128kbps. I have pretty limited disc space and wish to conserve it as long and heartily as possible. Just in case any of you were audiophiles, huh.