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
Fictions	Fixation	ST	03:19
Nasty Habits	Playing in the Danger Zone	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:07
Men Without Hats	Safety Dance	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:24
Instructions	Cleek	ST	02:56
Lou Champagne System	Selling So Sweet	No Visible Means	02:48
Extras	Everytime I See Your Face	Bit Parts	02:33
Eight Seconds	Kiss You (When It's Dangerous)	Almacantar	04:07
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Body of Vagrant Waves	I Fear What I Might Hear	08:36
Eight Seconds	Picture	Big Houses	06:13
Within Gothic Towers	Is This My Moment Of Glory	Within Gothic Towers	04:01
Instructions	OK	ST	03:53
Martha And The Muffins	Symptomatic Love	Trance and Dance	04:08
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Rock 'N' Roll	Ohama aka The White Album	04:26
Handful of Snowdrops	Somewhere Higher (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:25
Breeding Ground	Slaughter	Reunion // Slaughter	04:55
3rd Man In	New Fast	New Fast b/w What to Believe (picture sleeve)	03:18
A Day in Paris	Prey	Prey	04:56
Direktive 17	Run With Me	ST (EP)	04:35
Carbon Unit	The Marsh	The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)	02:45
B-Sides	Regular Guy	Red to Black	02:35
B-Sides	Underground Radio Stars (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:40
Glamorcult	Cocktail Conversations	A Price To Paris	04:32
Lawn	Rites	Peace in the Valley	03:48
Handful of Snowdrops	Godhood (1989)	Mort en direct	04:44
Johnny Zhivago	It Must be Love	Microalbum	03:43
Deserters	Thought Police	ST	04:08
Rex Chainbelt	Test Tube Baby	Foreign Movie	01:53
Kings	Partyitis	Are Here	03:51
I Braineater	Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6)	I Here, Where You	09:19
Bora Bora	Fashion Passion	Fashion Passion b/w Starting Over	03:47
The Scene (2)	What I Need	Only in Paradise	05:28
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Timeless Thoughts (To the Stars)	Space and Time	04:54
Villains	You Are (All These Things to Me)	Go Crazy	04:38
A Neon Rome	The Prayer	New Heroin	06:01
Age of Mirrors	The Day the Earth Stands Still - Breathless	Mirage	05:44
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Dead Dogs	Spunker	02:32
Eight Seconds	Tell Diane	Big Houses	04:45
Philip Rambow	Don't Come (Cryin' To Me)	Jungle Law	03:37
Vital Sines	Sorry	Big Dark Dreams	04:32
Shock Culture	Something to Dream	ST (EP)	04:03
Rex Chainbelt	Rich Man	Foreign Movie	02:52
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Let Them Eat Static	Midnite News	04:37
Hygiene Club	Pantechnicon - for Gary	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	01:15
Age of Mirrors	Juliet's Dancing	Mirage	04:49
Mobile Clones	Motionless	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:19
Hot Tip	My Shoes	Stop All Motion	03:52
Start	Evil Hearted You	Hey You	02:31
Streetcar Named Desire	World War Son	Life Begins	04:28
Breeding Ground	Turn to Dust	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:20
Corsage	Shut-Ins	ST	03:11
Diodes	Everything I Am	Action-Reaction	03:15
Golden Calgarians	Vladivostok Rock	Savage Love	04:03
100 Flowers	We're Waiting	21st Guessing	03:11
Land of Giants	Cannibal Dolls	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
Palace at 4 a.m.	Sex - Death	Untamed World	03:16
Psyche	The Dark Pool	The Influence	04:54
Andrew Matheson	Can't Stop the Angels	Monterey Shoes	06:57
This Fear	Lights of Capitals	Darkness Shapes Imagination	03:50
Glamorcult	The Basis of Our Style	Early Glamour	04:00
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Instrumental)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:18
Cannon Heath Down	Julia Rainbow	Heart-Throb Companion	04:31
Null Set	Stripe	New Job (EP)	01:18
Big Dog	Cantina	99 Change Hands	05:19
Martha And The Muffins	Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing	Danseparc	05:53
Degrees of Freedom	In This Room	China	03:41
Rational Youth	Latin Lovers	ST (mini album)	03:51
Images In Vogue	Awaken Me	In The House	03:47
Bonus Boys	Wasting Our Time	Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time	03:16
Shanghai Lil	Nirvana - Oh What a Night	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:57
I Braineater	Songs for the Masses	I Here, Where You	03:43
Drastic Measures	I Need You Now	ST	02:43
John Lutz T.	Street Corner Sally	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	03:06
Blue Peter	Cloak and Dagger	Test Patterns For Living	03:45
Absolute 9	Fence	Love and Work b/w Fence	03:00
A Day in Paris	jUsT tHe sAmE	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:42
Barking Boys	Ghost Story	The Yes Girls	04:09
True Confessions	Don't Go to Work on Me	ST	02:11
Martha And The Muffins	One Day in Paris	This Is The Ice Age	04:20
Dream Child	Luv On the Line	Heaven Knows b/w Luv On the Line	04:11
Palace at 4 a.m.	Untamed World	Untamed World	03:52
Absolute 9	The Gift	ST	03:03
I Braineater	Future Now	I Here, Where You	03:08
Extras	I’ll be Wanting You	The Road to Zambando	04:15
Family Plot	Gravedigger	Convictions	02:19
Rarefaction	All the Broken Seams	Ordinary Man	03:44
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Planet Nine	Space and Time	05:25
Breeding Ground	In the Sun	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:22
Breeding Ground	Dirge	Wintergarden (EP)	06:25
I Braineater	Gastly Dance	I Here, Where You	01:26
Psyche	Misery's Return	The Influence	04:57
Doppler Bros.	Welcome to Canada	Totally Impractical	03:48
Numbers	Sunday Afternoon	Add Up	03:39
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Simple Man	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:16
Bündock	Cowboy	Société Anonyme	03:46
Volts	Words on the Wind	Plugged In	02:48
Dorian Gray	Perfect Killing Machine	Perfect Killing Machine b/w When Worship Hits the Fan	03:48
Instructions	The Factory	ST	03:41
Rational Youth	Just a Sound in the Night (remix)	ST (mini album)	03:45
Men Without Hats	Ideas for Walls	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:27
Frigidaires	Three Cool Cats	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:12

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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