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
Sex Church	Put Away	Growing Over	02:00
Spoons	Game Above Your Head	Vertigo Tango	03:51
Mettle	The Invisibles	ST	03:14
Melinite	Who Needs Foreplay?	Push The Button And Run!	01:30
Blue Peter	Time and Money	Test Patterns For Living	02:07
Benjamin Russell	Dance Man	Pop Modern(e)	04:12
Pukka Orchestra	Knocking On Open Doors	The Palace Of Memeory	03:56
Within Gothic Towers	In The Darkness	Within Gothic Towers	04:38
Emport	Heartaches	Heartaches b/w Picture Frame Love Affair	03:58
Glamorcult	Theories of Modern Affection	A Price To Paris	04:27
Bunny & the Lakers	Oops On Parade	Numbers	01:30
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	I Tie My Shoes	Ohama aka The White Album	05:58
Within Gothic Towers	Day Dreaming	Within Gothic Towers	03:14
Glamorcult	Distant Memories	The Stone Sessions	04:07
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Figures At Dawn	Love Will Know	ST	03:50
Austra	Beat and the Pulse	Feel it Break	04:55
Braineaters	Modern Man	Planet X	02:15
Pukka Orchestra	Cherry Beach Express	ST	03:07
Mr. Science	Popeshat	Popeshat b/w Where R the Legs	04:15
Sex Church	Waking Up	Growing Over	05:26
Martha And The Muffins	Suburban Dream	Trance and Dance	03:27
Eight Seconds	We Set Him Free	Big Houses	05:04
Eight Seconds	Sincere	Almacantar	04:27
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Upcoming Storm	Space and Time	03:38
4th Floor	Black and White	Black & White b/w Follow in Stride	04:37
Scissors	Nadine	ST	02:03
The Scene (2)	I Am	Only in Paradise	04:14
John Lutz T.	Kiss And Tell	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	02:10
Hush	Dancing in East Berlin	Replay	04:17
Micks	Money Talks	ST (EP)	02:24
Quasi Hands	Oil Barons	ST	03:49
Moev	Circles And Squares	Dusk and Desire	03:29
Boys Brigade	Mannequin	ST	03:41
Volts	Loneliness in the Air Age	Plugged In	02:43
Awake The Echoes	I Need Someone to Complain to	Normal Life	02:43
Entrance System	Ahohoo	Imperfect Image	03:45
BB Gabor	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry)	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	02:41
Extras	Stay Up All Night	Bit Parts	02:54
Palace at 4 a.m.	I Go Hungry	Untamed World	03:43
Cardboard Brains	Summertime!	Live At The Edge	03:31
Tim Ray	I'm Waiting (April, 1979)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:00
The Diodes	Curiosity Girl (1977 previously unreleased version)	Rarities	02:51
Cannon Heath Down	Not Now	Heart-Throb Companion	02:15
Hot Tip	Never Look Back	Stop All Motion	03:25
The Diodes	Burn Down Your Daddy's House	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:16
Handful of Snowdrops	Messengers (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:18
Braineaters	Closet Case	Planet X	01:26
Bündock	Stand Still	Société Anonyme	02:45
Spoons	No Promises	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:39
Maurice & The Clichés	Veronika	Veronika	03:40
Johnny Faith	Pure Energy	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:55
Land of Giants	Cannibal Dolls	Cannibal Dolls b/w Seven Men	03:32
Handful of Snowdrops	Voices in the Night	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:41
Kinetic Ideals	Fade Away	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	07:44
NEO A4	Home	The Warmer Side of You	02:53
45's	On the Beach	On the Beach	04:05
Spoons	The Opening Curtain	Vertigo Tango	04:21
The Edge	Play the Game	Release the Circle	04:07
Strange Advance	Reprise "Worlds Away"	Worlds Away	01:35
Modernes Pickles	Uranium Ore	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:32
Land of Giants	Key to Your Heart	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	02:50
Modernes Pickles	Vitamin K	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:49
Psyche	The Sundial	The Influence	03:38
Johnny Faith	Party time	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	01:42
Breeding Ground	In the Sun	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:22
Drastic Measures	Romanticon	ST	02:42
Ralph Mashats	Irradies	Irradies b/w Empty Eyes (Fly My Way) (picture sleeve)	03:54
Cinebar	Another Fine Day	Another Fine Day	03:37
Einstein	Nasti Nastassja	Sex and Science	04:35
Boys Brigade	Saigon	Mannequin Demo	05:02
Klō	Mrs. Fong	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	02:32
Modernes Pickles	Life in Ancient Greece	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:19
Channel 5	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
Mobile Clones	Motionless	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:19
Breeding Ground	Reflections (In a Coffee Cup)	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:21
Martha And The Muffins	Am I On?	Trance and Dance	03:24
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Thin Lines	Midway b/w Thin Lines	05:53
Glen Meadmore	Hen Party	Chicken & Biscuits	05:22
Breeding Ground	Slaughter	Reunion // Slaughter	04:55
Bündock	Season for Love	Société Anonyme	04:11
Border	All in All	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:53
Instructions	Ha - Ha Ha	ST	04:29
Awake The Echoes	The Best Thing	Normal Life	02:38
Lawn	Don`t Ask	Peace in the Valley	03:43
Lou Champagne System	Silent Walking	No Visible Means	06:56
Handful of Snowdrops	Terroir II	Land of the Damned	01:01
Awake The Echoes	You're More Trouble Than You' re Worth	Normal Life	03:58
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Dischordant Concensus	Midnite News	03:45
Kinetic Ideals	Fire	Reason (EP)	05:54
Martha And The Muffins	Revenge (Against the World)	Metro Music	03:31
Censure	Amour	Foxy Lady b/w Amour	04:33
Lou Champagne System	Selling So Sweet	No Visible Means	02:48
Images In Vogue	Masks	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:56
Compilation	Jenerentola - Lagata (Jenerentola)	Strange Pleasures EP	06:32
The Scene (2)	Come of Age	Only in Paradise	05:36
Fictions	Snob Appeal	ST	03:53
One Hand Clapping	Angry Weather	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	04:23
ACTORS	Bury Me	It Will Come to You	03:28

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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