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
A Day in Paris	cAn'T lOoK aWaY	Rhymes On Vinyl	04:03
British Properties	Niag'ra Falls	Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls	03:26
Motive	It’s Too Late	Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)	03:28
Corsage	City Sleeps	ST	04:17
Barking Boys	Open City	The Yes Girls	04:07
Age of Mirrors	Wave About Her	Mirage	04:33
Secret Act	Heaven	My Neighbourhood	04:12
Strange Advance	She Controls Me	Worlds Away	02:59
Golden Calgarians	My Big Truck	Savage Love	03:25
Border	Black and White	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:01
Thieves	Color	I See Red	04:09
Doppler Bros.	Leaving Home	Totally Impractical	02:21
ACTORS	L'appel du vide	It Will Come to You	03:34
Glamatron	Facial Saviour	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	05:02
Class Info	Come For Me	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	02:27
Tenants	I Love Romance	ST	03:55
Andre Beaupre	The Saga of Wayne Gretzky	The Saga of Wayne Gretzky b/w The Saga of Wayne Gretzky Part II	03:16
Images In Vogue	Welcome to Sorrow	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:07
Eight Seconds	Happy Endings	Big Houses	03:46
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Mushin No Shin	Midnite News	05:35
Handful of Snowdrops	The View (1984)	Mort en direct	05:16
Modern Minds	20 Years Old	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:59
Glamorcult	Time Is Running Out	Shadows From The Past	03:16
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Voices Like Thunder	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	04:00
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:06
100 Flowers	21st Guessing	21st Guessing	04:16
CosmaNat	Camping Song	Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)	02:17
Men Without Hats	Modern Dancing	Folk of the 80's (EP)	04:12
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Exit From a Dream	04:33
Images In Vogue	Travel	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:20
Braineaters	Screw You	Planet X	01:44
Corsage	Royal Couple	ST	02:55
Government	Paranoid Downtown Funk Pt. 2	How Many Fingers?	02:32
FM109	Ecoeure' ecoure'	ST	01:35
Johnny Faith	Pure Energy	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:55
Glamorcult	If Only You Knew	Early Glamour	04:13
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin' to Glide	Are Here	05:43
Channel 5	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
Golden Calgarians	Savage Love	Savage Love	04:16
Bobby and Synthia	Big Tits	thirty-six hours (EP)	03:44
Degrees of Freedom	August is an Angel	China	04:27
Psyche	Thundershowers	Unveiling The Secret	05:13
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Thin Lines	Midway b/w Thin Lines	05:53
Popular Front (1)	World Weary	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	04:54
The Front	Hit and Run	Underworld	04:14
Toe Beat	Stranger	Stranger	03:42
ACTORS	Crystal	It Will Come to You	03:40
Sebastian (Agnello)	No Compromise	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:34
Land of Giants	Cannibal Dolls	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
Minutes From Downtown	Emotion Under Pressure	Minutes From Downtown '82	04:14
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Feelings Feel	Ohama aka The White Album	02:57
Glamorcult	Anna King	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	02:41
Tim Ray	Cliche (June, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:16
Spoons	Spaces	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:12
Iko	Subway 49	83	04:53
Andrew Matheson	Eyes of Harlem	Monterey Shoes	07:44
Kings	Love Store	Are Here	03:28
Images In Vogue	Lust for Love	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:18
DeMars	Moonshadow	Stories from between the Walls	06:28
Glamorcult	Would it be Over	Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)	03:30
Clooz	You Can Do	Leave Me Alone b/w You Can Do	03:02
Scott Matthews	Boats in Rivers	Boats in Rivers	04:50
ACTORS	How Deep is the Hole	Reanimated	04:00
Glamorcult	The Journey Ends	Atlantis Under the Sea	03:25
A Neon Rome	The Magical Summer of '85	New Heroin	03:17
Glen Meadmore	Blissful Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:24
ACTORS	L'appel du vide: Part Time Punks Session	Part Time Punks Session EP	03:34
The Front	Twice Shy	Underworld	03:37
The Front	The Truth Hurts	Gina's at a Party	03:13
Boys Brigade	Shadows	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	03:28
Start	Gotta Have Love	Hey You	04:49
The Front	Looking For You	Gina's at a Party	04:32
Contradance	Professional Dads	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	03:40
Bicycle Thieves	Picking Up Pens	ST	04:17
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News III	Midnite News	04:25
Start	Kids in the USA	Hey You	03:17
Cottage Industry	The Urge to Merge	The Winter's Tale	04:33
Class Info	Circle Game	Inside	02:20
Handful of Snowdrops	Mort en direct (1989)	Mort en direct	03:38
Informer	Hold It	I Know You Know b/w Hold It	03:12
Wrestlers	Dance of the Drunk	ST	02:37
Moev	Ophelia	Dusk and Desire	03:59
Living End (1)	Blow	ST	02:35
Golden Calgarians	Getting Weaker	Savage Love	03:05
Compilation	Julie Choquette - Dream in My Head	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:34
Melinite	A Daydream Dilemma	Push The Button And Run!	03:44
I Braineater	Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6)	I Here, Where You	09:19
Blueprints	Tribute to a Fool	Stare 01	03:50
Numbers	Mr. Dempster	Add Up	03:49
Decade of Dreams	Stop This Car	Wild Colloquial	02:12
Psyche	The Brain Collapses (Original Concept)	Insomnia Theatre	04:07
Glamatron	The Word (Death In September)	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:24
Cardboard Brains	Babies Run My World	Live At The Edge	02:07
Corsage	Snakeskin (live at the Town Pump)	Big Night Out (EP)	05:22
Salt And the Choppers	Flounder	I And You b/w Flounder (picture sleeve)	03:01
Age of Mirrors	Orange Blossom Special	Mirage	04:00
Cottage Industry	Things Go Up	The Winter's Tale	03:34
Boys Brigade	Cut Up	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:25
Cinebar	Another Fine Day	Another Fine Day	03:37
Vital Sines	Fear of the Cold	Big Dark Dreams	03:41

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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