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
Ohm & the Secret Sources	No Feelings	Space and Time	03:34
Living End	Death at an Early Age	Death at an Early Age b/w Magic Carpet Ride	03:12
Spoons	Shaking the Fear	Vertigo Tango	04:16
Compilation	Colin Davison - Love's Gone	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Vital Sines	Subway Suicide	Subway Suicide E.P.	04:51
Andrew Matheson	It Only Hurts When I Cry	Monterey Shoes	03:25
Rave Revues	Play in Your Grave	Voices	04:31
Tyro	Told You	A Little More Time (EP)	03:28
Kings	Don't let Me Know	Are Here	04:00
Quasi Hands	Parallel Lines	ST	03:19
Palace at 4 a.m.	Palace at 4 A.M.	Untamed World	01:25
Tenants	Sheriff	ST	03:52
e	The Fall	The Levitation Syndrome	03:15
Contradance	Black Preppies	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	02:28
The Modern Minds	Love to Me	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:32
Extras	One Last Time	Bit Parts	03:45
Ceramic Hello	M - EX	The Absence of a Canary	00:23
39 Steps	Teachers	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:22
Glamorcult	Follow the Shadow	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:24
The Front	Can't Get Started	Gina's at a Party	04:18
I Braineater	Alone	I Here, Where You	02:41
Spoons	Nova Heart	Arias & Symphonies	05:46
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Simple Man	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:16
Benjamin Russell	Want a World	Madman	02:13
Glamorcult	Tropical Romance	Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)	04:23
Magic Dragon	Objet Du Desire	Emotional Landscape	05:34
Benjamin Russell	One Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:55
Martha And The Muffins	Symptomatic Love	Trance and Dance	04:08
Men Without Hats	Antarctica	Folk of the 80's (EP)	03:25
Mobile Clones	Present Age	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:24
39 Steps	Hit It Up	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:14
B-Sides	Red to Black	Red to Black	03:20
Moral Lepers	Dead of Night	Turn to Stone	03:59
Cöld Wår	Do You Notice Me	Do You Notice Me b/w Klub Haus (picture sleeve)	03:31
Glamorcult	Live for Today	Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)	03:37
Kings	Partyitis	Are Here	03:51
Drama	Hidden Melodies	Loneliness	03:54
Age of Mirrors	Don't Let Your Love Slip Away	Screenplay	03:54
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	T.V.	Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.	04:33
Pierre Perpall	Da Da Da (Vocal)	Da Da Da	03:50
Handful of Snowdrops	Now, Then and Forever (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	05:57
Cardboard Brains	Ermie Has Feelers	Live At The Edge	05:36
Villains	Go Crazy	Go Crazy	03:17
Austra	Beat and the Pulse	Feel it Break	04:55
Bora Bora	Fashion Passion	Fashion Passion b/w Starting Over	03:47
Villains	Lovers	Go Crazy	03:03
Tenants	Look the Other Way	ST	03:25
Salty Seamen	One Chance Left	In The Groove At Last	02:33
Johnny Zhivago	Looking at You	Microalbum	04:28
The Keys	Lied To!	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)	02:18
Tim Ray	Now What Was That	ST	02:58
John Young Paul	Our Time Escapes	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:09
Tim Ray	Silent Partner	ST	02:47
Steve Blimkie (and the Reason)	I Got This Feeling	Blimkie	02:13
Salty Seamen	Rings Around Uranus	In The Groove At Last	02:18
FM109	Hold On	ST	03:37
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Mad at the World	Space and Time	03:51
Extras	I Never Told You, I Told You So	The Watcher (EP)	04:26
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lonely Heart Dance	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:09
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Dead Dogs	Spunker	02:32
Modernes Pickles	March of the Fingertips	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:57
The Diodes	Hot Sand (1981 Remixed Version 2017)	Rarities	03:18
Eight Seconds	Listen	Almacantar	05:17
The Government	Gunshot Wound	Electric Eye	02:56
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Rational Youth	In Your Eyes	ST (mini album)	02:46
Blueprints	Tribute to a Fool	Stare 01	03:50
Einstein	Incognito	Sex and Science	03:50
Compilation	Instructions - Tell-A-Photo	The Circuit	04:42
Awake The Echoes	Turn That Bloody Noise Down	Normal Life	03:15
BAMFF	Mini Crisis	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:35
ACTORS	Object of Desire	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:12
ACTORS	Crystal	It Will Come to You	03:40
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes I Fear	Ohama aka The White Album	04:25
Carbon Unit	The Martian Hop	The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)	03:48
The Chemicals	Out of My Mind	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	03:11
Blue Peter	Time and Money	Test Patterns For Living	02:07
James Harcourt	Eye of the Needle	Emotional Blackmail	02:54
Glamorcult	Distant Memories	The Stone Sessions	04:07
Secret Act	Our Little Secret	My Neighbourhood	04:36
Nowhere	No More	No More b/w Living	04:56
Class Info	Out of Line	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	04:04
ACTORS	Bury Me	It Will Come to You	03:28
Martha And The Muffins	Indecision	Metro Music	04:23
Figures At Dawn	Close My Eyes	ST	04:54
Glamorcult	A Farewell to Arms	Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)	02:37
The Government	I'm Somebody	Electric Eye	01:36
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Call	Ohama aka The White Album	05:37
ACTORS	Nightlife	Reanimated	04:24
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	Heredity	05:17
The Diodes	That Was The Way That It Was	Action-Reaction	03:46
Neon	Slaves	ST (EP)	03:00
Drama	Feable	Loneliness	03:42
Glamorcult	S.O.S.	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:31
Tim Ray	Preamble - One Last Look (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	06:21
UJ3RK5	Hands of Orlac	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:36
Spoons	No Electrons	Arias & Symphonies	05:12
Philip Rambow	Jessica	Jungle Law	04:00
Tim Ray	Mondo Cane (July, 1984)	History Lessons 1978-1984	04:44
Erect	Don't Put Me Down	Consequence of Life	02:44

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Sound FX - Sound FX

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Sandro Durante - Don't Go (Breaking My Heart) b/w All That Magic

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Hypno-Gogo - In Your Eyes b/w Flashing

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Mad Shadows - Music in the Night

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The Modern Minds - Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Space Invaders - ST (EP)

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Dis Band - Gone Dead Out

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Compilation - Saskatoon Rocks

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The Government - How Many Fingers?

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The Government - Electric Eye

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The Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

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Bumpers - EP

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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Ross Angeles - Salute

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - You Can´t Hold Me Anymore b/w Freaks On the Tube

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - Blimkie

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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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