by James Christopher MongerGerman new wave quartet Ideal were formed around the talents of Annette Humpe, Ernst Ulrich Deuker, Frank Jürgen Krüger, and Hans-Joachim Behrendt. They released three records in the early '80s on Tangerine Dream's Klaus Schulze's record label, the self-titled Ideal, Der Ernst des Lebens, and Bi Nuu, before disbanding in 1984.