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
David Raven & the Escorts	One Way Love	David Raven And The Escorts	02:36
BB Gabor	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry)	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	02:41
Frigidaires	Three Cool Cats	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:12
Me And the Mosquitos	Valium	Go Away b/w Valium	03:03
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	And Without a Word	Ohama aka The White Album	04:16
Boys Brigade	Exodus	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:12
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Space and Time	04:26
John Young Paul	Angels With Dirty Faces	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:33
David Raven & the Escorts	Keep On Burning	David Raven And The Escorts	03:49
Numbers	Bits & Pieces	Add Up	02:45
Spunker (aka Neotone)	No More Walrus	Spunker	03:55
I Braineater	Comeon	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:44
Ceramic Hello	The Disqued	The Absence of a Canary	03:54
Ross Angeles	Empty Amour	Salute	03:19
Scenics	Tokyo	New Part In Town	04:07
Breeding Ground	Business	Obscurity And Flair	04:02
Ceramic Hello	Conversation Between Units	The Absence of a Canary	00:30
Glamorcult	This Is Our Story	The Stone Sessions	03:44
Velveteens	Flies	Tall House (EP)	04:09
Erect	Lay Down and Die	Consequence of Life	03:18
Men Without Hats	Utter Space	Folk of the 80's (EP)	02:44
FM109	Help	ST	02:11
DeMars	Les cosmétiques cosmiques	Les Télé-Têtes	03:48
Men Without Hats	Antarctica	Folk of the 80's (EP)	03:25
DeMars	Torn to Pieces	Stories from between the Walls	03:35
I Braineater	Funtime	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:24
Class Info	Come For Me	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	02:27
Palace at 4 a.m.	Untamed World	Untamed World	03:52
Rational Youth	Call Me	Heredity	02:59
Tenants	You Don't Know What I've Been Thru	ST	03:40
Johnny Zhivago	New Things	Microalbum	03:19
Pukka Orchestra	A Wonderful Time to be Young	ST	03:07
Spoons	Perfect Exception	New Day New World	03:58
Glamatron	Factor 2-2-2	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:53
Kaméléon	Omnibus Cactus	ST	02:48
Philip Rambow	Snakes And Ladders	Jungle Law	03:52
Kaméléon	Caravane (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	03:32
Moral Support	Rising	Insanity	03:04
Diodes	Roses and Thorns	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:22
Compilation	Colin Davison - Love's Gone	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Age of Mirrors	Crazy After Dark	Screenplay	04:56
Moev	90 Minutes	Zimmerkampf	05:15
Compilation	Vera & The Poor Boys - Chameleon Girl	The Circuit	03:10
Martha And The Muffins	One Day in Paris	This Is The Ice Age	04:20
Spice	Beautiful You	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	03:23
Glamorcult	Hope For Change To Come	Shadows From The Past	03:42
Glamorcult	Cry	Shadows From The Past	03:35
Preison's Shade	Race Me Home	Race Me Home (EP)	04:56
Palace at 4 a.m.	Sex - Death	Untamed World	03:16
Direktive 17	Run With Me	ST (EP)	04:35
Breeding Ground	Wintergarden	Wintergarden (EP)	04:20
Bitter Reality	Tellin' Me Goodbye	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:38
Oui	You Make Me High	Oui	04:41
Wrestlers	G.T.O.	ST	03:32
Blue Peter	Do the Robot	Test Patterns For Living	03:25
Rarefaction	All the Broken Seams	Ordinary Man	03:44
James Harcourt	Eye of the Needle	Emotional Blackmail	02:54
Age of Mirrors	Still Life in Radio	Screenplay	04:09
I Braineater	I Here Where You	I Here, Where You	02:51
Cannon Heath Down	Safe As Milk	Heart-Throb Companion	03:35
Johnny Faith	Standing On the Red Line	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:52
Bunny & the Lakers	t.b. Farm (Kiss Me Now)	Numbers	01:27
Bitter Reality	A White Man (In Babylon)	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:40
Lou Champagne System	Do Something	No Visible Means	04:34
Andrew Matheson	Tender is the Night	Monterey Shoes	05:51
Rex Chainbelt	Run Away	Foreign Movie	02:43
Diodes	That Was the Way it Was (Eastern Sound Demo 1979)	Rarities	04:27
Kaméléon	Microcosme	ST	03:40
Fictions	Jersey Shore	ST	02:48
Within Gothic Towers	Fanfare To Flight	Within Gothic Towers	04:48
NEO A4	Desire	The Warmer Side of You	04:02
True Confessions	26264	ST	02:15
James Harcourt	Queen Bee	Emotional Blackmail	02:17
Compilation	Mike Peters - Trucker's Paradise	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
A Neon Rome	Bsus5	A Neon Rome	08:25
Austra	Spellwork	Feel it Break	05:09
Martha And The Muffins	Danseparc (Every Day It's Tomorrow)	Danseparc	03:22
Two Men Laughing	Dancing in Moscow	Imprisoned Lorri b/w Dancing in Moscow (picture sleeve)	02:53
Vital Sines	Erik the Generik	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:45
Compilation	Pat Grehan - Fury Girl	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:13
Tau Ceti	Bathed in Dark Light (rhythm version)	So Far	05:23
Ross Angeles	She Knows	Salute	03:12
Glen Meadmore	Just a Girl	Chicken & Biscuits	05:57
Wrestlers	Dance of the Drunk	ST	02:37
Deserters	Present Life	ST	03:21
Cannon Heath Down	Fortunate	Heart-Throb Companion	01:22
The Front	The Same Girl	Underworld	04:14
Tim Ray	1/4 to Eight (October, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:40
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Diodes	Edge of Darkness	Action-Reaction	03:10
Strange Advance	Kiss in the Dark	Worlds Away	03:56
Psyche	Eating Violins	Insomnia Theatre	02:45
Glamorcult	Mine is the Maiden	Early Glamour	04:39
A Day in Paris	Too Tired	Prey	03:34
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Fast Mix)	Strange Pleasures EP	09:34
Thieves	Color	I See Red	04:09
Handful of Snowdrops	The View (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	06:28
Images In Vogue	Worlds of Noise	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:30
Within Gothic Towers	The Cavern Of Solitude	Within Gothic Towers	04:06

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Tim Ray - History Lessons 1978-1984

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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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Popular Front - Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious

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Popular Front - Doomsday Army b/w Puppet

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Klō - No Money b/w The Parking Lot Song

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Klō - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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Klō - Fun b/w Weirdo

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Spoons - Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party

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Spoons - New Day New World

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Spoons - Static In Transmission

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Spoons - Vertigo Tango

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Spoons - Bridges Over Borders

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Spoons - Talkback

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Spoons - Nova Heart b/w Symmetry

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Spoons - Arias & Symphonies

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Spoons - Stick Figure Neighbourhood

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Tim Ray - ST

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Voice - Anno Di Voce

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Hygiene Club - Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary

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Avril Chown - American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight

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Kultur - Kultur

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The Idles - The Idles Demo

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Hunger Project - Demo 1982

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Hunger Project - The Same Inside b/w Assembly

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Boys Brigade - Interview with Boys Brigade and Producer Geddy Lee

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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