New Wave Post Punk Wave

A sonic crash where style meets substance, and attitude meets atmosphere. This collection dives deep into Canada’s wave-driven underground—where angular guitars, icy synths, and restless energy redefined punk and reshaped pop. From the art-school edges of New Wave to the introspective shadows of Post-Wave and the raw pulse of Punk Wave, these tracks capture a scene in flux, bursting with invention and edge. Cool, quirky, and unapologetically bold—this is the sound of the future, past and present.

Tracks

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Tim Ray	Silent Partner	ST	02:47
Modernes Pickles	March of the Fingertips	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:57
Jon Mullane	One More Chance (for u)	Following Yesterday	04:29
Vital Sines	Fear of the Cold	Big Dark Dreams	03:41
Bicycle Thieves	Imperial Love	ST	04:07
Kinetic Ideals	Together	A Personal View (EP)	05:54
Reasons	Boy He's Got a Girl	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:52
Golden Calgarians	Savage Love	Savage Love	04:16
Kreemers	At The El Mocambo	Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo	02:48
Moev	Rotting Geraniums	Zimmerkampf	04:51
Bitter Reality	A White Man (In Babylon)	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:40
Novels	I'm Being Followed	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	03:02
39 Steps	Always Tomorrow	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:37
Blue Peter	Time and Money	Test Patterns For Living	02:07
Johnny Zhivago	New Things	Microalbum	03:19
The Vox	Bored of the 80's	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	02:37
James Harcourt	You Make My Thing Ping	Emotional Blackmail	02:48
James Harcourt	Queen Bee	Emotional Blackmail	02:17
Handful of Snowdrops	Somewhere Higher (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:25
Spoons	Game Above Your Head	Vertigo Tango	03:51
Bobby and Synthia	Big Tits	thirty-six hours (EP)	03:44
FM109	Food On Nuclear Device	ST	06:38
B-Sides	She's a Raver	Red to Black	02:36
Breeding Ground	Underground	Wintergarden (EP)	04:31
Maurice & The Clichés	Dean Reckoning	C'est la vie	03:40
Fictions	Dimestore Romance	ST	03:44
Land of Giants	Cannibal Dolls	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
Timothy Chipman	Night Patrol	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:22
Austra	Darken Her Horse	Feel it Break	05:21
Hunger Project	Poland	Demo 1982	05:40
Punkin Machine	Zarcon Rock On	Zarcon Rock On // Zarcon Rock On	03:40
Spoons	Love Recall	New Day New World	03:19
Images In Vogue	King's Service	In The House	03:25
Timothy Chipman	Joy to the World	Ghost Parade	01:32
Glamorcult	In Time (Only to be Free)	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:17
Benjamin Russell	Angel of Mercy	Madman	02:45
Bitter Reality	Tellin' Me Goodbye	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:38
Regulators	That´s Right Nothing's Left	What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)	02:53
DeMars	La nouvelle epoque	Les Télé-Têtes	04:01
Salty Seamen	Star Train	In The Groove At Last	04:01
Klō	Clown	Demo 1981	03:17
Handful of Snowdrops	The Scariest Notion (1st Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:08
Blue Oil	Twenty Years	ST	03:41
I Braineater	Songs for the Masses	I Here, Where You	03:43
Nasty Habits	Cleopatra	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:27
Spoons	Shaking the Fear	Vertigo Tango	04:16
Oui	Circle of Love	Oui	04:20
Handful of Snowdrops	Now, Then and Forever (Bonus Track)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:06
I Braineater	Future Now	I Here, Where You	03:08
Handful of Snowdrops	Holy Hossuary (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:58
Handful of Snowdrops	Charlatan (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	05:25
Modernes Pickles	Possessed in the City	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:28
Benjamin Russell	Power of Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:37
I Braineater	Gastly Dance	I Here, Where You	01:26
Direktive 17	Run With Me	ST (EP)	04:35
Martha And The Muffins	This is the Ice Age	This Is The Ice Age	07:34
Kaméléon	Smarties (1983)	Groupe électro-pop	04:54
Lou Champagne System	Broken Hearts	No Visible Means	03:31
The Diodes	Action Re-action	Action-Reaction	03:18
John Young Paul	The Boulevards of Hope	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:37
100 Flowers	The Naught	21st Guessing	03:56
DeMars	Les enfants dans la lune	Les Télé-Têtes	02:54
Deserters	Take It Away	ST	03:26
Images In Vogue	For Germans	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:39
ACTORS	Stimulation	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:15
Strange Advance	Automatic Sighs	Worlds Away	04:41
Rave Revues	Long Time Coming	Long Time Coming b/w Rules Of Play (picture sleeve)	04:11
Maurice & The Clichés	Show Me a Love	Veronika	03:00
Rob Bryanton	Another Day, Another Show	Alcohol And Other Drugs	03:13
Drastic Measures	I Feel Bad	ST	02:04
Direktive 17	Jericho	ST (EP)	03:58
Modernes Pickles	Blue Baby Baby White	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:58
Scenics	In the Summer	Underneath the Door	03:53
Figures At Dawn	Bridges Burning	ST	03:36
Tau Ceti	Radiation (fallout mix 86)	So Far	04:15
Rave Revues	Living in the Shadows	Voices	04:07
Scott Matthews	Navigation	Boats in Rivers	03:33
Eight Seconds	Here Stood Troy	Big Houses	06:33
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Educated Man	03:54
Salty Seamen	Rings Around Uranus	In The Groove At Last	02:18
Salty Seamen	Club Hot de Paris	In The Groove At Last	02:03
Moev	M.T. M.T. N.M.E.	Zimmerkampf	05:15
Land of Giants	Thing Called Love	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	06:57
Compilation	Julie Choquette - Dream in My Head	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:34
Handful of Snowdrops	Ends & Meanings (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:00
45's	Real Confused	On the Beach	02:15
Andrew Matheson	My Girls (Pin-Up Parade)	Monterey Shoes	03:52
Hypno-Gogo	Flashing	In Your Eyes b/w Flashing	04:49
Toe Beat	Stranger	Stranger	03:42
Breeding Ground	Turn to Dust	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:20
Vital Sines	Big Dark Dreams	Big Dark Dreams	05:25
Bunny & the Lakers	Shrieks From the Peeks	Numbers	03:10
Tim Ray	Bonus Track	History Lessons 1978-1984	01:17
The Voxx	Flower Boy	Flower Boy b/w Flower Boy DVB	03:01
Handful of Snowdrops	Face to Face (Interim Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	06:33
Hush	Now Reality	Replay	04:41
Psyche	Eating Violins	Insomnia Theatre	02:45
Red Herring	Feelings	Taste Tests	02:21
Odd Man Out	Whatever Happened to Us	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	04:02
Bumpers	I Watch You Go	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:34

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever

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ACTORS - Part Time Punks Session EP

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ACTORS - Slaves (FM Attack RMX)

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ACTORS - Mining for Heart

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ACTORS - Acts of Worship

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ACTORS - One Hundred Years

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ACTORS - It Will Come to You

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ACTORS - Reanimated

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Bleu Néon - Cité Promise

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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Maurice & The Clichés - ST

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Maurice & The Clichés - Veronika

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Maurice & The Clichés - Soft Core

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Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

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Minutes From Downtown - ST

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Joe Naylor - I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights

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Modernes Pickles - Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985

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Modernes Pickles - We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White

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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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Rob Bryanton - Alcohol And Other Drugs

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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The Keys - Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)

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Maja Bannerman - Songs by Maja Bannerman

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Blue Oil - Blue Oil (1981-83)

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Blue Oil - ST

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The Chemicals - Break Time

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The Chemicals - Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide

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Vex - DNA

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