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
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Government	Following You (Reprise)	Electric Eye	02:15
Salty Seamen	Club Hot de Paris	In The Groove At Last	02:03
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Mr. X)	Strange Pleasures EP	04:54
Tyro	City Life	A Little More Time (EP)	03:02
Glamorcult	Start The Revolution	The Stone Sessions	04:03
Rave Revues	Everyone’s a Critic	Voices	06:45
Corsage	Myself and You (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:00
Iko	Communication Off	83	04:34
Hot Tip	Fast Boys	Stop All Motion	03:23
Cardboard Brains	The Monster in Ed	Live At The Edge	03:26
Thieves	Screams	I See Red	04:40
Government	Gunshot Wound	Electric Eye	02:56
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Take Me Dancing	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	05:24
Start	Hey You	Hey You	04:03
Moev	Ophelia	Dusk and Desire	03:59
Vital Sines	Collage	Collage	04:25
Graphics	Our Planet Ocean	Sleepdancer b/w Our Planet Ocean	03:17
True Confessions	Modern Girl	ST	03:03
B-Sides	Regular Guy	Red to Black	02:35
Andrew Matheson	True Romance	Monterey Shoes	03:42
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39
Breeding Ground	Underground	Wintergarden (EP)	04:31
Catherine	Operating System	Operating System b/w Operating System	03:03
Compilation	Jennifer Cauley - In Every Dream	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:45
Spoons	Talk Back	Talkback	04:37
Dada	If I'm Blind	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:46
B-Sides	Run and Hide	Red to Black	03:40
Kreemers	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo	03:14
Diodes	Survivors	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:56
True Confessions	Modern Personality	ST	04:12
Pukka Orchestra	Weekend (Come Alive!)	The Palace Of Memeory	06:15
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Drugs	Ohama aka The White Album	04:36
Land of Giants	Just Yet	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:30
Degrees of Freedom	The Sound of a Jealous Heart	China	03:36
Compilation	The Rhythm Kingz - Drums of Change (K. Gariepy, N. Minotti)	Strange Pleasures EP	06:35
Mettle	Five-Four	ST	04:39
Quasi Hands	Lovelife	ST	03:01
Null Set	Etude for Triggered Wah	New Job (EP)	05:02
Diodes	Behind Those Eyes (Aug 1977 Crash 'N' Burn Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	02:42
Conning Tower	Looking Up From Under	Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under	03:35
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Kinetic Ideals	Absurdity	Reason (EP)	05:23
Age of Mirrors	Simple Gift of Love	Mirage	03:05
Austra	Lose It	Feel it Break	04:29
Popular Front (1)	September Reign	This is the Rubicon	03:12
Rave Revues	Play in Your Grave	Voices	04:31
Einstein	Nasti Nastassja	Sex and Science	04:35
Figures At Dawn	Close My Eyes	ST	04:54
NEO A4	Don't Believe	The Warmer Side of You	04:50
Age of Mirrors	Crazy After Dark	Screenplay	04:56
e	The Fall	The Levitation Syndrome	03:15
Preison's Shade	She Wants Me	Race Me Home (EP)	05:54
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower & the Hippies	ST (EP)	02:29
Government	Sponge	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	02:22
The Presence	Blown Away	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	02:15
Carbon Unit	The Marsh	The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)	02:45
Drastic Measures	T.N.T.	ST	03:51
A Neon Rome	Bsus5	A Neon Rome	08:25
Barking Boys	Open City	The Yes Girls	04:07
Vital Sines	Subway Suicide	Subway Suicide/ Erik the Generik b/w Sex & Babies (picture sleeve)	04:51
Handful of Snowdrops	A Miracle	Land of the Damned	04:54
Family Plot	Swagger	Convictions	03:12
John Bell and the Strange	Melissa	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	06:50
Timothy Chipman	Old Shoes, New Dreams	Ghost Parade	01:33
Interpol	Chocolate Covered Killer Bees	ST	03:20
Blueprints	Down On My Sublife	Stare 01	04:06
Lou Champagne System	Broken Hearts	No Visible Means	03:31
Kaméléon	Omnibus Cactus	ST	02:48
Nevermen	Real Life	The Monitor LP	05:10
Martha And The Muffins	Swimming	This Is The Ice Age	03:54
Spoons	Only for Athletes	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	05:29
Compilation	Charles Kurt - The Silence Upstairs	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:11
Men Without Hats	Mothers	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	12:07
True Confessions	Mating Games	ST	03:06
NEO A4	If it Was You	ST	04:41
Moev	Rotting Geraniums	Zimmerkampf	04:51
Keys	Lied To!	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)	02:18
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Killer Punk	Space and Time	02:42
Within Gothic Towers	Fanfare To Flight	Within Gothic Towers	04:48
Mobile Clones	Motionless	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:19
Modernettes	(I Can Only Give You) Everything	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:22
Braineaters	Kid Stuff	Planet X	01:33
Keys	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)	03:16
Images In Vogue	Worlds of Noise	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:30
Salty Seamen	In the Groove at Last	In The Groove At Last	02:35
Images In Vogue	Save It	In The House	03:38
Melinite	My Anna of Discretion	Push The Button And Run!	02:36
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	Midnite News	03:44
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a T.V. Set	Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.	05:08
John Young Paul	The Monster in Ed	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:06
Suns of One	Freedom Time	Freedom Time	04:02
Handful of Snowdrops	Now, Then and Forever (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	05:57
Age of Mirrors	Columbus Discovers America	Screenplay	03:12
Modernettes	The Rebel Kind	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:08
Instructions	D-6	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:32
Braineaters	Modern Man	Planet X	02:15
Thieves	Kopper & Iron	I See Red	03:38
Lou Champagne System	Do Something	No Visible Means	04:34

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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Bonus Boys - Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time

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Cry - ST

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Friendly Fire - Junior Senility EP

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Second Thoughts - Integrity b/w Wound Up

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Regulators - What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)

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Diodes - Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981

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Diodes - Rarities

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Diodes - Action-Reaction

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Scenics - New Part In Town

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Dancespeak - Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)

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Bangkok - Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own

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Cardboard Brains - Live At The Edge

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4th Floor - Black & White b/w Follow in Stride

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Breeding Ground - Obscurity And Flair

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Breeding Ground - Tales of Adventure (EP)

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Breeding Ground - Reunion // Slaughter

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Breeding Ground - Wintergarden (EP)

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Nowhere - No More b/w Living

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - Midway b/w Thin Lines

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - I Fear What I Might Hear

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - Midnite News

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - Ohama aka The White Album

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