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
Modernes Pickles	Colors	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:18
Breeding Ground	Epic	Tales of Adventure (EP)	06:43
Jon Mullane	In Our Hearts	Following Yesterday	03:22
39 Steps	City of Vice [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:25
Government	On the Prowl	Electric Eye	04:39
Barking Boys	Too Hot In Here	The Yes Girls	04:39
Deserters	Take It Away	ST	03:26
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Instrumental)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:18
Secret Act	Heaven	My Neighbourhood	04:12
Shanghai Lil	Nirvana - Oh What a Night	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:57
Velveteens	Love as a Rule	Tall House (EP)	03:03
Drastic Measures	Prelude	ST	01:09
Diodes	Action Re-action	Action-Reaction	03:18
Mettle	Five-Four	ST	04:39
Tower Bridge	Perfection	Perfection b/w Out of My Mind Girl (picture sleeve)	04:07
Spunker (aka Neotone)	I'm in the Stars For You	Spunker	04:36
Bonus Boys	Wasting Our Time	Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time	03:16
Kinetic Ideals	Life in Shadow	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	02:57
Extras	Sporting Life	The Road to Zambando	03:50
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a T.V. Set	Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.	05:08
Bunny & the Lakers	Yalps From the Alpa	Numbers	02:35
Pale Blue	Therapy	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:53
Timothy Chipman	Joy to the World	Ghost Parade	01:32
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	And Without a Word	Ohama aka The White Album	04:16
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Mr. Crystal	Space and Time	05:32
Rational Youth	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	Cold War Nightlife	04:34
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Over Mountains	Ohama aka The White Album	03:14
Extras	Zambando	The Road to Zambando	04:17
The Play	Line of Fire	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:45
Hot Tip	Never Look Back	Stop All Motion	03:25
David Raven & the Escorts	Dance Dance Dance	David Raven And The Escorts	02:22
Klō	Mrs. Fong	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	02:32
Eight Seconds	Wings	Almacantar	04:46
Magic Dragon	Once Upon a Time	Emotional Landscape	04:25
Austra	The Villain	Feel it Break	04:06
Andrew Matheson	It Only Hurts When I Cry	Monterey Shoes	03:25
Eight Seconds	We Set Him Free	Big Houses	05:04
Andrew Matheson	St. Catherines Wheel	Monterey Shoes	05:37
Cottage Industry	Things Go Up	The Winter's Tale	03:34
Glamorcult	Fusion (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:23
The Hurt	Local Belt	Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)	03:18
David Raven & the Escorts	One Way Love	David Raven And The Escorts	02:36
Tabby K	Summertime	Summertime b/w Wind Or Water	03:42
Glamorcult	Afterglow	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:44
Hot Tip	Eyes Are Blue	Stop All Motion	03:19
Streetcar Named Desire	Someday Your Ship Will Come (Dance Mix)	Life Begins	04:17
Corsage	Down at the Rock	ST	03:26
Blueprints	What You D-Serve	Stare 01	02:51
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	05:12
Glamorcult	She Doesn't Believe In The Magic	The Stone Sessions	03:57
Eight Seconds	Commissioner St.	Almacantar	04:40
Hot Tip	Friends	Stop All Motion	03:49
Magic Dragon	Memories	Emotional Landscape	04:11
Blueprints	Down On My Sublife	Stare 01	04:06
The Scene (2)	Soul Spectrum	Only in Paradise	05:09
Diodes	Coma	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39
Villains	You Are (All These Things to Me)	Go Crazy	04:38
David Raven & the Escorts	Somethin' in Our Way	David Raven And The Escorts	04:25
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Psyche	The Dark Pool	The Influence	04:54
Instructions	Cleek	ST	02:56
Bündock	Silhouette	Société Anonyme	04:06
Bicycle Thieves	Instead of a Heart	ST	04:31
The Patterns	Always Sixteen	Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen	02:44
Modernettes	Won't Have To Worry	Gone..But Not Forgiven	02:22
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald	Red to Black	03:52
Images In Vogue	Quiet Room	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	03:32
FM109	Disappearing of the Sun	ST	03:54
Welcome Home	Top of the World	In This Life b/w Top of the World (picture sleeve)	04:02
Family Plot	Dervish	Convictions	04:11
The Front	Your Street	Underworld	04:10
Volts	These Things Remain	Plugged In	03:57
Bobby and Synthia	Video Violence	thirty-six hours (EP)	03:53
100 Flowers	The Best Status Symbol	21st Guessing	02:54
John Young Paul	The Girl Spells Grief	The Life of Ermie Scub	01:38
Handful of Snowdrops	The Keep - When Comes Daylight (1986-87)	Mort en direct	07:30
Rex Chainbelt	Fighter Plane	Foreign Movie	02:14
Billy Butt & The Brats	Surveillance	Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No	03:21
Extras	High-Tech Promises	The Road to Zambando	03:34
Rex Chainbelt	Test Tube Baby	Foreign Movie	01:53
Punkin Machine	Zarcon Rock On	Zarcon Rock On // Zarcon Rock On	03:40
Vital Sines	Break the Chains	Big Dark Dreams	02:53
Sex Church	Waking Up	Growing Over	05:26
Channel Five	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
Images In Vogue	For Germans	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:39
Second Thoughts	Wound Up	Integrity b/w Wound Up	02:50
Melinite	Waiting 4-U	Push The Button And Run!	01:48
Strange Advance	Hold On to the Nite	Worlds Away	04:34
Glamorcult	As I Breathe on The TTC	Shadows From The Past	03:58
Images In Vogue	In the House (Single Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	03:14
Philip Rambow	Love is a Hard Time	Jungle Law	04:19
Land of Giants	Security Squad	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
B-Sides	Late at Night	Red to Black	03:28
Martha And The Muffins	Casualties of Glass	This Is The Ice Age	05:17
Hygiene Club	Pantechnicon - for Gary	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	01:15
UJ3RK5	The Anglican	ST (EP)	03:53
Men Without Hats	I Got the Message	The Safety Dance	04:47
Strange Advance	Love Games	Worlds Away	03:51
Class Info	That Aint No Lie	Inside	02:19

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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The Scene (2) - Only in Paradise

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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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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