holy sh*t, Softmachine...
I seldom meet people even having heard of them.
One of those pearls from the past, in an area when you could have reasonably succes with extremely original musicionship.
In an interview with basplayer Hugh Hopper I read that he didn't even realize the switching between timestamps at the time.
If you need a few extra beats in the composition you just put them in, so to speak.
Listening to the link of yours it's hard to imagine anyone today would understand what's all about.
I even can't get it clear to myself how I was able to consume this music as if it was normal stuff.
It just was there and I loved it, and many young scloolers loved it and knew it.
Imagine, in my small birth city there was typical youth center of the time, with a completely whight room (yes, In a White Room) with nothing in it except a pickup player at the wall for who wanted to put on something.
It was normal to have the 4 tracks of of the 2LP 'Third' heard in one session, each side one track of 25 minutes.
The same for Ummagumma, another weird but great adventure which is unthinkable today I guess.
In one of my first tries to make electronic dance music I used the strange and longspead reverse (synth) bassline of the track Facelift I think.
Will see if I can find the old DAT tape where it's on, I could post it here.
Yes, DAT tape, my Atari didn't use a harddisk
Sorry for OT, Dante, I let myself go
