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
Magic Dragon	Memories	Emotional Landscape	04:11
Diodes	Play With Fire	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	05:30
Living End (1)	Anaesthesia Grin	ST	03:29
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Planet Nine	Exit From a Dream	05:21
True Confessions	Yes it's True	ST	03:03
Glamorcult	Would It Be Over	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:28
Tin Twist	Stupid Cars	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	01:37
Martha And The Muffins	Cheesies and Gum	Metro Music	03:09
Oui	On Our Way	Oui	03:36
Drastic Measures	Big Town Boy (Shirley Matthews)	ST	02:00
True Confessions	Modern Girl	ST	03:03
NEO A4	Is She is She	ST	04:39
Oui	Intelligence	Oui	03:56
Rational Youth	Latin Lovers	ST (mini album)	03:51
Null Set	Judgement Days	New Job (EP)	02:19
Modernettes	Won't Have To Worry	Gone..But Not Forgiven	02:22
Glamorcult	Time Is Running Out	Shadows From The Past	03:16
Wrestlers	Intro - Yeah! I'm Drunk	ST	04:12
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	New Heroin	03:00
Spoons	Tidal Wave	Bridges Over Borders	03:55
Spoons	Ice Age	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:08
Benjamin Russell	Gonna be a Woman Soon	Madman	02:54
Martha And The Muffins	Paint By Number Heart	Metro Music	03:28
Handful of Snowdrops	Healer (1988)	Mort en direct	06:25
Bonus Boys	Wasting Our Time	Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time	03:16
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Fast Mix)	Strange Pleasures EP	09:34
Rex Chainbelt	Rich Man	Foreign Movie	02:52
John Lutz T.	Street Corner Sally	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	03:06
A Kid	Come	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:35
Rikki & The Rokkits	They Never See	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:23
Shanghai Lil	Nirvana - Oh What a Night	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:57
Darkroom	San Paku	San Paku	05:06
Einstein	A Brighter Tomorrow	Sex and Science	03:09
Glamorcult	Lost Souls In Time	The Stone Sessions	03:40
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Instructions	The Factory	ST	03:41
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	T.V.	Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.	04:33
Kings	It's Okay	Are Here	02:55
Bicycle Thieves	Instead of a Heart	ST	04:31
Absolute 9	The Gift	ST	03:03
Hot Tip	My Shoes	Stop All Motion	03:52
Martha And The Muffins	Symptomatic Love	Trance and Dance	04:08
Compilation	Tammie Chicorli - A Special Day	Music Industry Arts 1983	01:29
Vital Sines	Break the Chains	Big Dark Dreams	02:53
Vital Sines	Sorry	Big Dark Dreams	04:32
Oui	Free from Body	Oui	03:01
Wrestlers	Dance of the Drunk	ST	02:37
Philip Rambow	The Manison on the Hill	Jungle Law	04:25
Thieves	I See Red	I See Red	04:27
Moev	Common House	Zimmerkampf	03:27
Ohm & the Secret Sources	No Feelings	Space and Time	03:34
Faded Films	East of the Asylum	Faded Years	04:46
Fictions	Snob Appeal	ST	03:53
Rheostatics	My Generation	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:04
Age of Mirrors	Talk of the Crowd	Mirage	04:13
Secret Act	Northern Spy	My Neighbourhood	03:31
Tribal Earth	Interaction - Reaction	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	05:49
Moral Support	Chasing Rainbows	Insanity	04:20
Government	On the Prowl	Electric Eye	04:39
James Harcourt	Emotional Blackmail	Emotional Blackmail	02:21
Odd Man Out	World of My Own	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	03:35
Drama	Got to Get off the Earth	Loneliness	03:06
FM109	S.O.S.	ST	03:54
Secret Act	Helpless	My Neighbourhood	04:14
DeMars	Le zaratt express	Les Télé-Têtes	04:11
Golden Calgarians	Ballad of Blood Beach	Savage Love	04:30
Glamorcult	The Light We Will Hold	A Price To Paris	04:23
Glamorcult	Images of Monlight	Early Glamour	04:19
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39
Handful of Snowdrops	A Short Story (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	06:24
Martha And The Muffins	Boys in the Bushes	Danseparc	04:43
Zipper	Another Boyfriend	Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls	02:52
Bunny & the Lakers	Inhalation - Ventilation	Numbers	02:07
Dandelions	Great Big Pictures	Great Big Pictures b/w Funky Monday (picture sleeve)	04:01
Spoons	Talk Back	Talkback	04:37
Odd Man Out	Whatever Happened to Us	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	04:02
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	01:00
Age of Mirrors	The Day the Earth Stands Still - Breathless	Mirage	05:44
Salty Seamen	Star Train	In The Groove At Last	04:01
Ceramic Hello	Conversation Between Units	The Absence of a Canary	00:30
Martha And The Muffins	Halfway Through the Week	Trance and Dance	03:41
Popular Front (1)	We One	This is the Rubicon	04:59
Breeding Ground	Business	Obscurity And Flair	04:02
Handful of Snowdrops	Now, Then and Forever (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	05:57
Numbers	Get Away	Add Up	02:43
Strange Advance	Reprise "Worlds Away"	Worlds Away	01:35
UJ3RK5	The Anglican	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	05:19
Bumpers	I Watch You Go	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:34
Eight Seconds	Just Pretend	Almacantar	04:33
Corsage	Down at the Rock	ST	03:26
Glamorcult	I Have Nothing To Say To You	The Stone Sessions	04:01
The Vox	Mary-Go-Round	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	03:29
Awake The Echoes	The Best Thing	Normal Life	02:38
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
Spoons	No Electrons	Arias & Symphonies	05:12
Government	Zippers of Fire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:05
Living End (1)	The Procession	ST	04:40
Land of Giants	Cannibal Dolls	Cannibal Dolls b/w Seven Men	03:32
Johnny Zhivago	Looking at You	Microalbum	04:28
The Hurt	Local Belt	Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)	03:18

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

FEATURED

Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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DeMars - Songs From Between The Walls

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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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David Raven & the Escorts - David Raven And The Escorts

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