Ideal - Ideal (2025 Mix) (1980/2025) Hi-Res

45 Years old – and now as fresh as ever: On June 27, the self-titled Ideal debut album from 1980 will be released in a newly mixed version. For the "2025 Mix" the original multitrack tapes were digitized and remixed by Moritz Enders (including Kraftklub, Casper) and Annette Humpe. The result sounds amazingly direct, tangible and present – as if the Berlin band had just stepped into the studio.

The highlight: Only technology that was already available in 1980 was used for the new mix. So the sound is not just new – but rethought in the spirit of the old time. "Ideal (2025 Mix)" is not just a nostalgic review, but an impressive update: songs like "Berlin", "Blaue Augen" or "Hundsgemein" seem as uncompromising, radical and relevant today as ever.

One of the most important albums of German pop/rock music. Only Nina Hagen was really innovative and refreshingly different back then, otherwise not much happened. And ideally create an actually impossible balancing act: between new wave and punk on the one hand and pop and schlager on the other. Hard guitar riffs meet the squeaky organ sound of Annette Humpe. It's about luxury and salmon, about blue eyes and red love.