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
Benjamin Russell	Power of Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:37
James Harcourt	Hook or By Crrok	Emotional Blackmail	03:33
Tim Ray	Stranded Walk	ST	03:24
Bündock	Cowboy	Société Anonyme	03:46
Martha And The Muffins	Whatever Happened to Radio Valve Road?	Danseparc	03:00
Palace at 4 a.m.	White Guilt	White Guilt	04:34
Border	All in All	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:53
Martha And The Muffins	About Insomnia	Trance and Dance	03:12
Ross Angeles	She Knows	Salute	03:12
Moev	Remembrance Day	Zimmerkampf	05:23
Eight Seconds	Chopin's Heart	Big Houses	04:51
Kinetic Ideals	Together	A Personal View (EP)	05:54
Boys Brigade	Voices	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:27
Scenics	New Part in Town	New Part In Town	03:31
Spoons	Imperfekt	Static In Transmission	04:27
Redlife	Hope for Tomorrow	Hope for Tomorrow b/w Round	03:44
Modern Minds	Wasted Lives	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	03:01
Scissors	All This And More	ST	02:46
Age of Mirrors	Don't Let Your Love Slip Away	Screenplay	03:54
Moev	90 Minutes	Zimmerkampf	05:15
Benjamin Russell	Miracle	Pop Modern(e)	05:28
Strange Advance	Hold On to the Nite	Worlds Away	04:34
Blue Peter	Living in the Eighties	Test Patterns For Living	02:26
Tame & Talking	Conditioned Manaid	ST	04:01
Ceramic Hello	Conversation Between Units	The Absence of a Canary	00:30
Vital Sines	Hype	Collage	04:43
FM109	Food On Nuclear Device	ST	06:38
Philip Rambow	Creature Comforts	Jungle Law	02:28
Glen Meadmore	Gotta Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:04
Tim Ray	Knockdown the Ashes (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:05
Extras	Everytime I See Your Face	Bit Parts	02:33
The Diodes	Lost in the Dark	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
The Gas	Special This Week	Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)	02:14
Compilation	Tammie Chicorli - A Special Day	Music Industry Arts 1983	01:29
Living End (1)	Naive	ST	02:25
Bobby and Synthia	Dig That Space	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:33
Compilation	The Secrets - I'll Cry Tomorrow	No Pedestrians	03:11
Modernes Pickles	Bonjour de Bob	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:01
Spoons	Words Will Smash Walls	Static In Transmission	04:29
Absolute 9	She Believes	ST	02:52
Martha And The Muffins	Be Blase	Trance and Dance	02:42
Einstein	Man-Child	Sex and Science	03:38
Drastic Measures	Prelude	ST	01:09
Johnny Zhivago	New Things	Microalbum	03:19
Vital Sines	Ice Statue	Collage	04:41
Drama	Hidden Melodies	Loneliness	03:54
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Now They've Landed (Harmonics)	Space and Time	05:01
Sex Church	Put Away	Growing Over	02:00
Andrew Matheson	Tender is the Night	Monterey Shoes	05:51
Psyche	Wink of an Eye	Insomnia Theatre	05:37
The Diodes	Strange Time	Action-Reaction	02:53
The Diodes	Play With Fire	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	05:30
Hot Tip	Friends	Stop All Motion	03:49
Vital Sines	Big Dark Dreams	Big Dark Dreams	05:25
Spoons	One in Ten Words	Arias & Symphonies	04:10
A Day in Paris	Child's Cry	Prey	03:45
ACTORS	Post Traumatic Love	Reanimated	03:20
Moral Lepers	Shadow	Turn to Stone	03:03
4th Floor	Follow in Stride	Black & White b/w Follow in Stride	04:16
Welcome Home	In This Life	In This Life b/w Top of the World (picture sleeve)	04:59
Martha And The Muffins	Symptomatic Love	Trance and Dance	04:08
Jon Mullane	With You	Following Yesterday	03:59
Blue Oil	Unwind	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:35
Breeding Ground	Dirge	Wintergarden (EP)	06:25
Cöld Wår	Do You Notice Me	Do You Notice Me b/w Klub Haus (picture sleeve)	03:31
Bündock	Silhouette	Société Anonyme	04:06
Breeding Ground	In the Sun	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:22
Einstein	Incognito	Sex and Science	03:50
Living End	Death at an Early Age	Death at an Early Age b/w Magic Carpet Ride	03:12
Modernes Pickles	Colors	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:09
Images In Vogue	Promised Land	In The House	06:03
Drama	Electronic Pink Panther	Loneliness	02:23
Toe Beat	Stranger	Stranger	03:42
Martha And The Muffins	Sinking Land	Metro Music	05:28
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39
Instructions	Cleek	ST	02:56
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Neighbours	Spunker	04:29
Bruce PM	Even More Joyful Noise	Makeshift	03:50
Age of Mirrors	Wave About Her	Mirage	04:33
Maurice & The Clichés	It's All Talk	C'est la vie	03:18
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
Images In Vogue	Grapevine	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:20
Martha And The Muffins	Primal Weekend	Trance and Dance	05:14
Scenics	O Charlotte	New Part In Town	03:44
Corsage	Down at the Rock	ST	03:26
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	02:04
Johnny Faith	Pure Energy	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:55
Rex Chainbelt	Allies	Foreign Movie	03:47
45's	She's In Love	On the Beach	03:27
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't You Think I'm Kiddin' Ya	Spunker	02:51
Class Info	Out of Line	Inside	04:04
Golden Calgarians	Vladivostok Rock	Savage Love	04:03
Blue Oil	Innocent Boys	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:45
Mannequin Depressives	I Don't Get You	Girls Are Evil	04:31
Kaméléon	Les chats ballerines	ST	03:53
Velveteens	Moonwork	Tall House (EP)	03:50
Salty Seamen	I'm Done	In The Groove At Last	03:50
NEO A4	Is She is She	ST	04:39
Glamorcult	All I Really Want	Atlantis Under the Sea	03:06
I Braineater	Songs for the Masses	I Here, Where You	03:43

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Drama - Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)

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Drama - Loneliness

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Glamorcult - Atlantis Under the Sea

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Glamorcult - A Price To Paris

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Glamorcult - Shadows From The Past

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Glamorcult - Early Glamour

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Glamorcult - Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994

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Glamorcult - The Stone Sessions

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Glamorcult - Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)

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Glamorcult - Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude

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Glamorcult - Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)

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CosmaNat - Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)

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Channel 5 - ST (EP)

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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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