New Wave Post Punk Wave

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
Our Sir Francis to the Sea Promise ST
Tim Ray D-Scratch (April, 1981) History Lessons 1978-1984
Degrees of Freedom In This Room China
ACTORS L'appel du vide It Will Come to You
Tim Ray Hiding Out (January, 1982) History Lessons 1978-1984
Pointed Sticks The Real Thing The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck
Volts Never Enough Plugged In
Modernes Pickles Baby My Band is Back Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Talking About Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile
ACTORS XYX Reanimated
Moev Czar Dusk and Desire
Martha And The Muffins Suburban Dream Trance and Dance
Tau Ceti Radiation (fallout mix 86) So Far
Glamorcult Follow the Shadow Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994
Rheostatics Satellite Dancing My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Sometimes I Fear Ohama aka The White Album
Degrees of Freedom August is an Angel China
I Braineater Fade I Here, Where You
Kinetic Ideals Together A Personal View (EP)
Glamorcult As I Breathe on The TTC Shadows From The Past
I Braineater Just a Boy I Here, Where You
Zipper Bad Girls Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls
Cardboard Brains And So I Hide Live At The Edge
Mettle The Second Person ST
39 Steps Priscilla All Kinds of Shit '85-'87
Austra The Villain Feel it Break
Regulators What's in the City What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)
Handful of Snowdrops Ends & Meanings (8 Track Home Demo) Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)
Billy Butt & The Brats No I Can't Say No Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No
Barking Boys Cool It Down The Yes Girls
Volts Can't Hold on Too Long Plugged In
Tau Ceti Bathed in Dark Light (rhythm version) So Far
Handful of Snowdrops The Keep (Interim Lineup Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Handful of Snowdrops Now, Then and Forever (Bonus Track) Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition
100 Flowers Coming Up For Air 21st Guessing
Popular Front (1) Forty Days This is the Rubicon
Handful of Snowdrops Hush (Bonus Track - 1991 unreleased remix) Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition
Erect Waiting Consequence of Life
Kreemers At The El Mocambo Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo
Zipper Slowtown Rats Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll) b/w Slowtown Rats
The Front News to You Underworld
NEO A4 Look to Your Heart The Warmer Side of You
John Young Paul Ermie has Feelers The Life of Ermie Scub
ACTORS One Hundred Years One Hundred Years
Kings Love Store Are Here
Handful of Snowdrops Holy Hossuary (2nd Lineup Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) My Time Midnite News
James Harcourt Like the Way It Feels Emotional Blackmail
Benjamin Russell Baby, This Is Love Madman
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Your Face Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile
Images In Vogue One Way Heart In The House
Pukka Orchestra Spies of the Heart ST
Volts Words on the Wind Plugged In
Tau Ceti San Francisco And I Wonder b/w San Francisco
Modernes Pickles March of the Fingertips Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985
Bruce PM Well, Yes Makeshift
Spoons Breaking In Static In Transmission
Compilation Dave Howard Singers - Road Warrior Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands
Tribal Earth Interaction - Reaction Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)
Kaméléon Insomnuit ST
Start Out of the Tube Hey You
Maja Bannerman Knock On My Door Songs by Maja Bannerman
Bangkok Eve of Destruction Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own
Images In Vogue King's Service In The House
Glamorcult Crestfallen A Price To Paris
Reasons Take Me Back Reasonable Rock (EP)
Handful of Snowdrops Still We Live (1st Lineup Studio Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Vis-A-Vis Prison of Eyes Heart and Soul
B-Sides She's a Raver (45 rpm) Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)
Tame & Talking Darkened Dream ST
Spoons Love Recall New Day New World
Andrew Matheson Can't Stop the Angels Monterey Shoes
Philip Rambow A Star (In Her Own Right) Jungle Law
The Vox Mary-Go-Round Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's
Bitter Reality Tellin' Me Goodbye Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)
Extras Never a Headache The Road to Zambando
Rob Bryanton Who's Got a Hold of the Wheel? Alcohol And Other Drugs
Benjamin Russell Want a World Madman
The Government Zippers of Fire 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.
True Confessions 26264 ST
I Braineater Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6) I Here, Where You
Awake The Echoes Someone Normal Life
Benjamin Russell Where Do We Belong? Madman
Iko Digital Delight 83
NEO A4 Around the World ST
Modernes Pickles We are the Modern Pickles We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) The Call Ohama aka The White Album
Bündock El Salvador (The Beat of) Société Anonyme
Kreemers Eve of Destruction Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo
Fictions Won't Wash Away ST
Age of Mirrors The Day the Earth Stands Still - Breathless Mirage
Hygiene Club Sea Monster Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary
Johnny Zhivago Echo Microalbum
The Front Underworld Underworld
Eight Seconds Here Stood Troy Big Houses
Drastic Measures Flowers ST
Land of Giants Thing Called Love Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks
Spunker (aka Neotone) Talkin' About Her Spunker
Dancespeak Naked in the Deep (Insomnia) Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)
Handful of Snowdrops From One Place to Another Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition

How Many Fingers?

Electric Eye

33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

Government - Electric Eye LABEL 02

Government - Electric Eye LABEL 01

Government - Electric Eye BACK

45-Government - 33.3 RPM EP VINYL 02

45-Government - 33.3 RPM EP VINYL 01

45-Government - 33.3 RPM EP BACK

Government - How Many Fingers LABEL 02

Government - How Many Fingers LABEL 01

Government-How Many Fingers SEALED BACK

EP

Bumpers

45-Bumpers - BACK

45-Bumper-2-45 Single VINYL SIDE 03

45-Bumper-2-45 Single VINYL SIDE 02

45-Bumper-2-45 Single VINYL SIDE 01

Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

Salute

You Can´t Hold Me Anymore b/w Freaks On the Tube

Steve Blimkie and the Reason

Blimkie

45-Steve Blimkie and the Reason - You Can't Hold Me VINYL 02

45-Steve Blimkie and the Reason - You Can't Hold Me VINYL 01

45-Steve Blimkie and the Reason - You Can't Hold Me BACK

pointed sticks 010101

pointed sticks 010122201

Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)

Loneliness

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