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
Motive	Don’t You Know	Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)	03:21
Family Plot	Dervish	Convictions	04:11
Tau Ceti	Bathed in Dark Light (rhythm version)	So Far	05:23
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Flying Goodbye	Ohama aka The White Album	03:45
Tulpa	Apologize to Your Mother	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	04:29
Moral Lepers	Beryl Bean	Turn to Stone	02:41
A Neon Rome	Cums a Wolf	New Heroin	04:15
Taro	The Line Is Fine	The Line Is Fine b/w Driftin Away (picture sleeve)	03:21
Golden Calgarians	Thousand Chains	Savage Love	03:51
Martha And The Muffins	Indecision	Metro Music	04:23
Psyche	Twilight	The Influence	04:31
Decade of Dreams	One Night in Bohemia	Wild Colloquial	03:50
UJ3RK5	The Departure	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:09
Jon Mullane	The Distant Light	Following Yesterday	04:05
Within Gothic Towers	Fanfare To Flight	Within Gothic Towers	04:48
Eight Seconds	Just Pretend	Almacantar	04:33
Oui	Circle of Love	Oui	04:20
Diodes	Lost in the Dark	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
Darkroom	Tears Hold No Cure	San Paku	03:46
Jon Mullane	One Turns Love Around	Following Yesterday	03:57
Images In Vogue	Breaking Up	Pre-release	04:30
True Confessions	Modern Girl	ST	03:03
Lou Champagne System	Silent Walking	No Visible Means	06:56
Modernes Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:44
Tenants	Losing Youth	Visions of Our Future	03:25
Thieves	Kopper & Iron	I See Red	03:38
Degrees of Freedom	China	China	06:00
Living End	Death at an Early Age	Death at an Early Age b/w Magic Carpet Ride	03:12
I Braineater	Future Now	I Here, Where You	03:08
Start	Evil Hearted You	Hey You	02:31
True Confessions	He's a Liar	ST	03:16
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Don't Be Afraid	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	04:30
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - Essay - Me Dad	Toronto Calling	06:06
B-Sides	She's a Raver (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	01:34
FM109	Food On Nuclear Device	ST	06:38
Modernes Pickles	Blue Baby Baby White	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	01:50
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News III	Midnite News	04:25
Glamorcult	Past Glory (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	04:32
Andrew Matheson	Can't Stop the Angels	Monterey Shoes	06:57
Rational Youth	I Want To See the Light	I Want to See the Light	03:55
Secret Act	Heaven	My Neighbourhood	04:12
45's	She's In Love	On the Beach	03:27
Modern Minds	Love to Me	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:32
Direktive 17	Run With Me	ST (EP)	04:35
Villains	Call Me Up	Go Crazy	03:00
Bicycle Thieves	Picking Up Pens	ST	04:17
Lou Champagne System	Broken Hearts	No Visible Means	03:31
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Exit From a Dream	05:27
British Properties	Niag'ra Falls	Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls	03:26
Volts	Can't Hold on Too Long	Plugged In	03:15
Bicycle Thieves	Anita	ST	03:31
Nasty Habits	Playing in the Danger Zone	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:07
Start	Just Another Girl	Hey You	04:57
Cinebar	Venus	Another Fine Day	03:43
A Day in Paris	Child's Cry	Prey	03:45
Spoons	Radio Heaven	Bridges Over Borders	03:57
Einstein	Elusive Temptress	Sex and Science	04:48
Tenants	Sheriff	ST	03:52
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Open Window	Midnite News	03:33
The Front	Who Your Friends Are	Gina's at a Party	03:45
Generra	Don’t Cut Me	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	03:57
Psyche	The Influence	The Influence	04:17
Martha And The Muffins	Three Hundred Years - Chemistry	This Is The Ice Age	07:09
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Stand	Spunker	02:36
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:41
Glamorcult	Carry the Water	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:47
A Day in Paris	Too Tired	Prey	03:34
Glamatron	Porcelain Doll	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:49
Psyche	Suffocation	Insomnia Theatre	03:10
Mettle	Evening Ocean	ST	02:58
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	03:18
Kinetic Ideals	Me and the Sky	A Personal View (EP)	05:50
Modernettes	The Rebel Kind	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:08
Land of Giants	Fountains in the Rain	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:30
Mobile Clones	Abrasive Air	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	02:24
Within Gothic Towers	In The Darkness	Within Gothic Towers	04:38
Kinetic Ideals	Animalistic	Reason (EP)	05:09
Bobby and Synthia	Dig That Space	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:33
Rarefaction	Abstract Minds	Ordinary Man	04:56
Broken Tables	The Ruins	ST	05:50
Martha And The Muffins	Walking Into Walls	Danseparc	02:57
Blue Peter	Factory Living	Test Patterns For Living	02:50
Tau Ceti	Radiation (fallout mix 86)	So Far	04:15
Dada	If I'm Blind	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:46
Martha And The Muffins	Halfway Through the Week	Trance and Dance	03:41
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Body of Vagrant Waves	I Fear What I Might Hear	08:36
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower & the Hippies	ST (EP)	02:29
Tin Twist	Sitting Here, Waiting Here	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	02:32
Strange Advance	Worlds Away	Worlds Away	07:00
Modern Minds	Happy	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:11
Benjamin Russell	You Took Me for a Ride	Madman	02:44
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
Austra	Hate Crime	Feel it Break	04:01
Absolute 9	Stop Thinking	ST	03:14
Moral Support	Insanity	Insanity	04:33
Rational Youth	In Your Eyes	ST (mini album)	02:46
The Scene (2)	Soul Spectrum	Only in Paradise	05:09
Awake The Echoes	Turn That Bloody Noise Down	Normal Life	03:15
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Stop	Spunker	02:57
Spoons	Don't Shoot the Messenger	Talkback	03:19

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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The Scene (2) - Only in Paradise

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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Jon Mullane - Following Yesterday

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Awake The Echoes - Normal Life

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No Comment - Wondering b/w Honesty

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Entrance System - Imperfect Image

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Shock Culture - ST (EP)

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Our Sir Francis to the Sea - ST

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Tame & Talking - ST

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Vital Sines - Big Dark Dreams

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Vital Sines - Subway Suicide E.P.

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Vital Sines - Collage

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Tim Ray - ST

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Volts - Plugged In

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This Fear - Darkness Shapes Imagination

Tenants - ST

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Compilation - The Circuit

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Moral Support - Insanity

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Scenics - Underneath the Door

Nex'd - Surreal (EP)

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Channel Five - ST (EP)

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Electric Mocean - Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)

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Neon - ST (EP)

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The Plugs - Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today

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Bunny & the Lakers - Numbers

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A Day in Paris - Prey

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Hypno-Gogo - In Your Eyes b/w Flashing

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A Day in Paris - Rhymes On Vinyl

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