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
The Diodes	Behind Those Eyes (Aug 1977 Crash 'N' Burn Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	02:42
Modernes Pickles	Night Worker	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:15
Compilation	Colin Davison - Love's Gone	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Theo Vandenhoff	Below the Western Steppe	Saviour on the Spilled Blood	05:05
The Government	Zippers of Fire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:05
Cinebar	Another Fine Day	Another Fine Day	03:37
Drama	Feable	Loneliness	03:42
Philip Rambow	Creature Comforts	Jungle Law	02:28
Andrew Matheson	Johnny Lets Run	Monterey Shoes	03:49
Deserters	Americans	ST	03:03
Spoons	The First & Last Time	New Day New World	04:54
Instructions	D-6	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:32
Land of Giants	Just Yet	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:30
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
Spoons	No More Growing Up	Arias & Symphonies	03:25
Numbers	Can't Take it	Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it	03:42
Drastic Measures	Flowers	ST	03:18
Scenics	In the Summer	New Part In Town	04:22
David Raven & the Escorts	Dance Dance Dance	David Raven And The Escorts	02:22
Numbers	Won't You Call	Add Up	03:11
Térapi	Espèce de stress	Primale	02:33
Instructions	Don't Say Love	ST	03:46
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	04:27
Psyche	Nocturnal Passenger	Mystery Hotel	06:07
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Take Me Dancing	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	05:24
Kings	Partyitis	Are Here	03:51
True Confessions	Modern Personality	ST	04:12
Perfect World	Have a Good Look	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	05:10
Tim Ray	Once or Twice (January, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:17
Martha And The Muffins	This is the Ice Age	This Is The Ice Age	07:34
Martha And The Muffins	Hide and Seek	Metro Music	03:58
Kinetic Ideals	In a Second	A Personal View (EP)	06:59
Sound FX	Caramia	Sound FX	03:08
Deserters	No Time for Talking	ST	03:16
Glamorcult	Mine Is The Maiden	The Stone Sessions	04:16
Age of Mirrors	Crazy After Dark	Screenplay	04:56
Melinite	Waiting 4-U	Push The Button And Run!	01:48
Extras	I Never Told You, I Told You So	The Watcher (EP)	04:26
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Exit From a Dream	05:27
Images In Vogue	Breaking Up	Pre-release	04:30
100 Flowers	Pam	21st Guessing	03:33
Glamorcult	Crestfallen	A Price To Paris	03:37
Age of Mirrors	Everything Looks The Same	Mirage	03:38
Moral Lepers	Music is Your Body	Turn to Stone	02:45
Maurice & The Clichés	C'est la vie	C'est la vie	03:15
DeMars	Les zoos arborifères	Les Télé-Têtes	03:09
Lou Champagne System	Another Dimension	No Visible Means	04:50
Spoons	Talk Back	Talkback	04:37
No Comment	Wondering	Wondering b/w Honesty	03:33
Compilation	Hygiene Club - Interview	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	06:10
Fictions	Don't Look Down	ST	02:31
Spoons	Walk the Plank	Arias & Symphonies	04:26
Rob Bryanton	Havin' Some Fun Tonight	Alcohol And Other Drugs	00:36
Kinetic Ideals	Fade Away	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	07:44
Numbers	Bits & Pieces	Add Up	02:45
UJ3RK5	Naum Gabo	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:18
Austra	The Choke	Feel it Break	04:12
Compilation	Bongo Fury - Alaska Shuffle	Toronto Calling	04:01
Psyche	Psyche Theme	The Influence	02:48
Glamorcult	Distant Memories	The Stone Sessions	04:07
Oui	You Make Me High	Oui	04:41
Dis Band	My Only Hope	Gone Dead Out	08:09
Klō	No Money	No Money b/w The Parking Lot Song	02:38
Start	Just Another Girl	Hey You	04:57
Thieves	Police Squad	I See Red	03:27
Inner Sanction	Standing in the Rain	Prophecy	03:21
Tenants	Let 'Em Go	Visions of Our Future	04:28
ACTORS	Bird in Hand	It Will Come to You	03:06
The Government	How Many Fingers?	How Many Fingers?	07:21
Tim Ray	Dying in Brooklyn (June, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:40
B-Sides	Much Too Serious	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	02:44
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Sister H. Immaculata	Spunker	02:12
Spoons	Red Light	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:44
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	01:00
Popular Front	Syncronized Swimming	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	03:51
Compilation	Glamatron - Klüb	The Circuit	02:28
Golden Calgarians	Vladivostok Rock	Savage Love	04:03
Spoons	Trade Winds	Arias & Symphonies	02:15
Philip Rambow	Bike Boys	Jungle Law	04:26
Spoons	Shaking the Fear	Vertigo Tango	04:16
Rikki & The Rokkits	New Wave	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:10
B-Sides	B-Side Shuffle	Red to Black	02:25
A Day in Paris	cAn'T lOoK aWaY	Rhymes On Vinyl	04:03
4th Floor	Follow in Stride	Black & White b/w Follow in Stride	04:16
Paperboys (1)	Saturday 12 Midnight	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	03:33
Dandelions	Funky Monday	Great Big Pictures b/w Funky Monday (picture sleeve)	02:51
Kaméléon	Smarties (1983)	Groupe électro-pop	04:54
Rational Youth	Latin Lovers	ST (mini album)	03:51
DeMars	Le fou sur l'île	Les Télé-Têtes	04:04
Barking Boys	Cool It Down	The Yes Girls	04:11
Dis Band	Dead Brezhnevs Intro to I'm Not in Love	Gone Dead Out	00:20
Tim Ray	Standard Walk (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:25
Corsage	Jackson	ST	03:41
Absolute 9	Stop Thinking	ST	03:14
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News IV	I Fear What I Might Hear	07:58
Corsage	Big Bang	ST	03:42
Modernes Pickles	Life in Ancient Greece	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:19
Benjamin Russell	You Took Me for a Ride	Madman	02:44
Within Gothic Towers	I've Got a Reason and You've Got a Prayer	Within Gothic Towers	04:41
Spoons	The Opening Curtain	Vertigo Tango	04:21

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Sandro Durante - Durante

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

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Glass Apple Bonzai - Love & Hatred in MegaWave City

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Eight Seconds - Big Houses

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Eight Seconds - Almacantar

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Theo Vandenhoff - Saviour on the Spilled Blood

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Theo Vandenhoff - In The Throes Of Love

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Theo Vandenhoff - Heartache Is An Empty Room

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Theo Vandenhoff - Alles Ist Besser

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Theo Vandenhoff - Collected EPs

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Theo Vandenhoff - Tenement

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Sound FX - Sound FX

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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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