New Wave Post Punk Wave

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
Benjamin Russell Power of Love Pop Modern(e)
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Midnite News III Midnite News
Design Sayonara (remix) No Turning Back
True Confessions Yes it's True ST
The Front Underworld Underworld
Moev Rotting Geraniums Zimmerkampf
Start Kids in the USA Hey You
Braineaters Johnny Planet X
Shanghai Lil Flower And a Bee Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night
Tenants Losing Youth Visions of Our Future
Handful of Snowdrops Gabrielle (1987) Mort en direct
NEO A4 Time for Me Now ST
Aircuts Sheila Radioactivity b/w Sheila
Benjamin Russell Baby, This Is Love Madman
Rave Revues Have You Voices
Breeding Ground Epic Tales of Adventure (EP)
Calling Rain Laid in Ruins Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)
100 Flowers Coming Up For Air 21st Guessing
Start In Passion Hey You
Ross Angeles Empty Amour Salute
One Hand Clapping Bad Pianos Burlesque (picture sleeve)
Vis-A-Vis Prison of Eyes Heart and Soul
The Front The Same Girl Underworld
Bündock Cowboy Société Anonyme
The Patterns Always Sixteen Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen
Eight Seconds Kiss You (When It's Dangerous) Almacantar
Glamorcult I Tell Him Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994
The Front Looking For You Gina's at a Party
Drama Anna King Loneliness
True Confessions 7-11 Heaven ST
Aircuts Radioactivity Radioactivity b/w Sheila
Martha And The Muffins Be Blase Trance and Dance
B-Sides She's a Raver (45 rpm) Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)
Iko Digital Delight 83
Compilation Crash Course In Science - Kitchen Motors (Produced by John Wicks, Third Story Recording, Philadelphia, USA) Strange Pleasures EP
Escalators Wooly Bully ST
A Neon Rome Cums A Wolf A Neon Rome
Breeding Ground Dirge Wintergarden (EP)
Compilation Don Bregg - Hypnotized Music Industry Arts 1983
Vital Sines Big Dark Dreams Big Dark Dreams
Braineaters Modern Man Planet X
Zipper Slowtown Rats Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll) b/w Slowtown Rats
Spoons One in Ten Words Arias & Symphonies
Numbers Mr. Dempster Add Up
Martha And The Muffins Hide and Seek Metro Music
Red Herring The Crab Song Taste Tests
Lou Champagne System Broken Hearts No Visible Means
Blue Peter Time and Money Test Patterns For Living
Living End (1) Time is Unkind ST
Moev Took Out the Lace Dusk and Desire
Ohm & the Secret Sources I Hold the Key Exit From a Dream
Kaméléon Un p'tit coup ST
Numbers Out to You Add Up
The Edge Play the Game Release the Circle
Martha And The Muffins One Day in Paris This Is The Ice Age
Glamorcult Manhattan Sunrise Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Mushin No Shin Midnite News
Martha And The Muffins Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing Danseparc
The Plugs Sending An S.O.S. Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today
Fictions Dimestore Romance ST
Handful of Snowdrops Healer (1988) Mort en direct
Darkroom In Dim light San Paku
Government Zippers of Fire 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.
Figures At Dawn In from the Cold ST
John Young Paul Our Time Escapes The Life of Ermie Scub
Drama Jungle Chant Loneliness
Micks I Want to be With You ST (EP)
Me And the Mosquitos Valium Go Away b/w Valium
Bangkok Eve of Destruction Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own
NEO A4 Sex (For Love) The Warmer Side of You
Villains Long, Short, Skinny Or Fat Go Crazy
Diodes That Was the Way it Was (Eastern Sound Demo 1979) Rarities
Salt And the Choppers Flounder I And You b/w Flounder (picture sleeve)
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Julie is a TV Set Ohama aka The White Album
A Kid Wrong and Bite An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)
NEO A4 Home The Warmer Side of You
Drama Come On Over Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)
Land of Giants Cannibal Dolls Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks
John Lutz T. Kiss And Tell Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally
The Front Robbery Underworld
Moral Lepers Dead of Night Turn to Stone
Erect The Colony We Are Police b/w The Colony
I Braineater 1980 More Artist, Poet, Thief
Age of Mirrors The Day the Earth Stands Still - Breathless Mirage
Moral Support Strange Day for Dancing Insanity
Moev Kim Says Dusk and Desire
Modern Minds The End of a Dream Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97
Psyche Maggots Insomnia Theatre
Johnny Faith Pure Energy Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time
Rarefaction Night Crawler Ordinary Man
Martha And The Muffins Suburban Dream Trance and Dance
A Day in Paris Under Prey
Electric Mocean Television Eyes Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)
Glamorcult I Will Still Be There The Stone Sessions
The Play Atlantic City Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City
Scissors Nadine ST
James Harcourt You Make My Thing Ping Emotional Blackmail
A Neon Rome Islam New Heroin
Compilation The Sharks - Get Off the Radio No Pedestrians
NEO A4 Is She is She ST

ST

Our Sir Francis to the Sea - ST MINT BACK

Tim Ray

Tame & Talking

ST

Big Dark Dreams

Subway Suicide E.P.

Vital Sines

Collage

Vital Sines - Subway Suicide/ Erik the Generik b/w Sex & Babies (picture sleeve)

Vital Sines – Subway Suicide E.P. (2)

Vital Sines – Subway Suicide E.P. (1)

Vital Sines - Big Dark Dreams INSERT SIDE 02

Vital Sines - Big Dark Dreams INSERT SIDE 01

Vital Sines - Big Dark Dreams BACK

ST

Tim in NY in 1986. Pix by Susan Fensten,

Tim in NY in 1986. Pix by Susan Fensten.

Tim Ray (5)

Tim Ray (6)

Tim Ray (3)

Tim Ray (2)

Photos, by Steve Josephson. These were taken at The Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, B.C. - May 8, 1978. Opening up for Patti Smith.

Tim Ray

Plugged In

Volts

Volts - Plugged In BACK

Tim Ray - ST BACK

This Fear

This Fear - Darkness Shapes Imagination INSERT SIDE 02

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