Ash Ra Tempel – Ash Ra Tempel

My copy too has the 5 digit number 56 013 on the sleeve and the six digit number 556.013 on the label.
Innersleeve has this code: 4912 000 11042 47.73 O
Someone has news about it? Is this a reissue from 1973?

Good news guys.. reissue coming! https://www.manuelgoettsching.com/pics/Ash_Ra_Tempel_50th_Anniversary_Release_Info.pdf

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Does anyone know which LP copies are from the original master tapes? Only 1971 or up until some point after? I’ve heard the 1972 pressings suffer from a lot of crackling and I was wondering if that was a pressing problem or because it was pressed from a vinyl copy. Thanks people!!

Side one of this album is one of the trippy-est first sides ever! I can pay this record the best lysergic compliment ever in that I thought there was something wrong with my turntable the first time I played it! That’s the same thing many have said during their first spin of Hendrix’s “Are You Experienced”! It’s funny in that many blame the mastering - I have a first pressing and it sounds the same! Play side two, especially the beginning and viola! Excellent mastering! Yes, that’s right! OK, maybe there are crummy copies out there and I’m just lucky I haven’t heard them. Right now I’m listening to a great pressing on Spalax from France. I’m happy with it, for sure!

Why does this album not have a decent modern vinyl pressing? A true masterpiece!

The second track is an incredible, extended length 25 minute psychedelic jam that is up there with the best of any I have ever heard, This is possibly the best psychedelic jam made in the 1970's. Wonderful to hear this for the first time today.

This debut from the german group "Ash Ra Tempel" with Klaus Schulze on drums and the legendary Conny Plank as an engineer is somehow beyond description. The first track "Amboss" sounds like a weird kind of Proto-Heavy-Metal that could have occured in "2001-A Space Odyssey" as an acoustic background near the end of the film and the second track "Traummaschine" is simply pre-historic rock-ambience in outer galaxies far away from our well-known planet Gaia aka Mother Earth after all.
The liner notes in the original LP were taken from a book by beat-poet Allen Ginsberg.
A classic from the "Pilots of Cosmic Twilight".

I listened to a 3rd Pressing of this LP a few days ago.
The Vinyl looked Mint, but the seller told me that it sounds pretty bad,
so we took a listen. Side A had audible crackling, but the sound was insane
(played on a cheap system !). However, Side B was almost unlistenable due to
loud pops and overall background noise. Does it have something to do with the pressing,
or was there just weird dirt in the grooves? Would be nice if someone who owns a 3rd Pressing
could clarify that :)
By the way, I tip my hat to the seller for being honest.

Nothing short of an essential album of Krautrock that must be in your collection. I won't forget when I bought the 1997 LP reissue on Spalax. In hindsight, it was a lousy reissue. It did not feature the cool fold-out gimmick cover, instead it included a CD booklet. I really wished Spalax showed a little more care in their reissues. At that time I still didn't have the Internet, so I was basically confined with what I could find at various record stores near where I lived, or mail order catalogs. And this reissue was what I could find at the time at a nearby record store. Regardless of the shortcomings of that reissue, this album just simply blew me away. This lineup included Manuel Göttsching, Hartmut Enke, and Klaus Schulze. At this time in his career, Schulze was primarily a drummer, so don't expect any synth or organ work. What you get is just amazing spacy guitar-dominated Krautock, and they seem to be rather contrasting to each other. "Amboss" doesn't take very long before it gets into an aggressive rocking jam. The band just doesn't let up for nothing! Then there's "Traummaschine", which is largely a calm, proto-dark ambient piece with a dark, eerie, sinister vibe, although it picks up steam with Manuel's guitar playing and it actually stars rocking, but then it calms down.

I have since bought an Ohr copy, the second pressing with the code number starting with OMM 55 (rather than OMM 5), at least it has the original gimmick cover and stuff I wished the reissue had.

An essential classic, as far as I'm concerned