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
Regulators	What's in the City	What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)	03:42
Spoons	Conventional Beliefs	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:57
Glamorcult	I Tell Him	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:00
Tenants	Look the Other Way	ST	03:25
Glamorcult	Follow the Shadow	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:24
Tim Ray	Love = Fusion (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:50
Austra	Hate Crime	Feel it Break	04:01
Lou Champagne System	Another Dimension	No Visible Means	04:50
Philip Rambow	Beyond the Naked & the Dead	Jungle Law	03:11
Spoons	New Day New World	New Day New World	03:32
Drama	Electronic Pink Panther	Loneliness	02:23
Spoons	Red Light	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:44
Drama	Space Age Punks	Loneliness	02:37
Spoons	Waterline	Vertigo Tango	05:02
Eight Seconds	Commissioner St.	Almacantar	04:40
Martha And The Muffins	This is the Ice Age	This Is The Ice Age	07:34
One Hand Clapping	The Moon is Blue	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	02:39
Aircuts	Radioactivity	Radioactivity b/w Sheila	02:57
Tenants	Winner	ST	03:21
I Braineater	I Am	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:07
100 Flowers	Pam	21st Guessing	03:33
Me And the Mosquitos	Valium	Go Away b/w Valium	03:03
Within Gothic Towers	I've Got A Reason And You've Got A Prayer	Within Gothic Towers	04:41
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39
James Harcourt	You Make My Thing Ping	Emotional Blackmail	02:48
Rex Chainbelt	Rich Man	Foreign Movie	02:52
A Neon Rome	Bsus5	A Neon Rome	08:25
Rob Bryanton	Livin' On the Edge of the World	Alcohol And Other Drugs	05:10
Glamorcult	You Are in Love	A Price To Paris	04:07
Drama	Anna King	Loneliness	03:04
Spoons	The Opening Curtain	Vertigo Tango	04:21
Lawn	Peace in the Valley	Peace in the Valley	03:37
The Diodes	Mercenary Flight (1978 Alternate Version) (CD only)	Rarities	03:21
Entrance System	Can't Deny the Rain	Imperfect Image	06:18
Reasons	Playing With Your Heart	Reasonable Rock (EP)	03:53
Barking Boys	Incident In St. Jamestown	The Yes Girls	04:58
The Diodes	Rocket Over & Under	Action-Reaction	04:21
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind (OHMix)	Space and Time	04:55
Kaméléon	Anachronisme	ST	04:14
Rob Bryanton	Gimme a Beer!	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:22
Images In Vogue	Fade Away	Educated Man	03:31
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama aka The White Album	02:44
Velveteens	Tall House	Tall House (EP)	03:05
Vital Sines	Sex & Babies	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:40
Breeding Ground	Underground	Wintergarden (EP)	04:31
Modernes Pickles	Brothurs	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:17
Spoons	Perfect Exception	New Day New World	03:58
Kinetic Ideals	In a Second	A Personal View (EP)	06:59
The Front	The Hard Line	Gina's at a Party	03:06
The Front	The Joke Was On Me	Gina's at a Party	04:03
Government	On the Prowl	Electric Eye	04:39
Braineaters	Modern Man	Planet X	02:15
Glamorcult	Distant Memories	The Stone Sessions	04:07
Dream Child	Heaven Knows	Heaven Knows b/w Luv On the Line	04:54
Images In Vogue	Promised Land	In The House	06:03
Future Yanx	Suite For A Nation	Suite For A Nation (picture sleeve)	03:12
Drastic Measures	T.N.T.	ST	03:51
Friendly Fire	Beverly Blue	Junior Senility EP	03:52
Klō	Fun	Fun b/w Weirdo	04:53
Cardboard Brains	Caesar Drives a Fast Car	Live At The Edge	03:06
Rob Bryanton	Just a Shy Guy	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:29
Hot Tip	Stop All Motion	Stop All Motion	04:34
Compilation	Sigi Jonsson - Trying To Find Her	Toronto Calling	02:25
Extras	Circular Impression	Bit Parts	02:13
Insex	Play or Die	One (EP)	02:14
The Idles	Again and Again	The Idles Demo	02:54
Faded Films	The Top	Faded Years	02:43
Within Gothic Towers	Day Dreaming	Within Gothic Towers	03:14
Kaméléon	Insomnuit	ST	04:26
Magic Dragon	Memories	Emotional Landscape	04:11
Blue Peter	Cloak and Dagger	Test Patterns For Living	03:45
Bündock	El Salvador (The Beat of)	Société Anonyme	04:30
UJ3RK5	Hash Dreams of the Everyday Housewife	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:26
39 Steps	Someday is Today [original]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:33
Erect	Don't Put Me Down	Consequence of Life	02:44
Modernes Pickles	Sweet Jenny	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:07
Hot Tip	Father I Know	Stop All Motion	04:18
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Pre-release	03:30
Ohm & the Secret Sources	No Feelings	Space and Time	03:34
Living End (1)	Is it Murder	ST	03:34
BB Gabor	Hunger, Poverty and Misery	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	03:50
Lunasam	Redhead	Redhead	03:52
Golden Calgarians	Savage Love	Savage Love	04:16
Psyche	The Brain Collapses (Original Concept)	Insomnia Theatre	04:07
Rolf Kempf	Bye Bye Baby	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:36
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	03:18
Entrance System	Tower Talk	Imperfect Image	05:53
Tin Twist	Stupid Cars	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	01:37
100 Flowers	The Naught	21st Guessing	03:56
John Young Paul	The Girl Spells Grief	The Life of Ermie Scub	01:38
Tim Ray	Stranded Walk	ST	03:24
Blue Oil	Producer	Blue Oil (1981-83)	03:19
Taro	The Line Is Fine	The Line Is Fine b/w Driftin Away (picture sleeve)	03:21
NEO A4	Standing	ST	03:50
The Scene (2)	Meet the Man	Only in Paradise	03:54
Quasi Hands	Oil Barons	ST	03:49
45's	She's In Love	On the Beach	03:27
Jon Mullane	One More Chance (for u)	Following Yesterday	04:29
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Now They've Landed (Harmonics)	Space and Time	05:01
Golden Calgarians	Galaxina	Savage Love	03:06

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever

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ACTORS - Part Time Punks Session EP

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ACTORS - Slaves (FM Attack RMX)

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ACTORS - Mining for Heart

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ACTORS - Acts of Worship

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ACTORS - One Hundred Years

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ACTORS - It Will Come to You

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ACTORS - Reanimated

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Bleu Néon - Cité Promise

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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Maurice & The Clichés - ST

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Maurice & The Clichés - Veronika

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Maurice & The Clichés - Soft Core

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Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

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Minutes From Downtown - ST

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Joe Naylor - I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights

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Modernes Pickles - Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985

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Modernes Pickles - We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White

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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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Rob Bryanton - Alcohol And Other Drugs

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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The Keys - Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)

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Maja Bannerman - Songs by Maja Bannerman

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Blue Oil - Blue Oil (1981-83)

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Blue Oil - ST

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The Chemicals - Break Time

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The Chemicals - Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide

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Vex - DNA

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