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
e	Prime Cuts	Prime Cuts	03:37
The Plugs	Sending An S.O.S.	Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today	03:21
Diodes	No Time to Cry (1981 Previously Unreleased) (CD only)	Rarities	03:43
Johnny Faith	Pure Energy	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:55
Glen Meadmore	Blissful Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:24
The Play	Line of Fire	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:45
Golden Calgarians	Sex Under Missiles	Savage Love	03:34
Bobby and Synthia	Dig That Space	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:33
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Educated Man	03:54
Drastic Measures	Flowers	ST	03:18
Pukka Orchestra	Power Cut	ST	05:13
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	My Time	Midnite News	05:15
Rex Chainbelt	Allies	Foreign Movie	03:47
Psyche	Wink of an Eye	Insomnia Theatre	05:37
True Confessions	Smokey's Gonna Twist	ST	02:25
Bunny & the Lakers	Weekend Guests	Numbers	01:57
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Mr. Crystal	Space and Time	05:32
Lawn	Catwalk Slip	Peace in the Valley	03:24
Figures At Dawn	Falling	ST	03:24
Golden Calgarians	Galaxina	Savage Love	03:06
Extras	High-Tech Promises	The Road to Zambando	03:34
B-Sides	She's a Raver (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:06
Eight Seconds	Zoe	Almacantar	04:54
Men Without Hats	Where do Boys Go	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	03:56
Psyche	Psychic Vampire	Insomnia Theatre	02:55
Inner Sanction	Runaway	Dancematic-Automatic	03:07
Diodes	Everything I Am	Action-Reaction	03:15
Lou Champagne System	Don't Say I'm Here	No Visible Means	03:27
Melinite	Trouble in Section 17	Push The Button And Run!	01:46
Rational Youth	Sorry	Heredity	04:47
Ohm & the Secret Sources	City of the Shadow	Space and Time	03:57
Scissors	Do You Like it?	ST	02:20
Men Without Hats	Ideas for Walls	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:27
Entrance System	Ahohoo	Imperfect Image	03:45
Rarefaction	I Dreamt	Abstract Minds b/w I Dreamt (picture sleeve)	04:04
I Braineater	I Here Where You	I Here, Where You	02:51
Hypno-Gogo	In Your Eyes	In Your Eyes b/w Flashing	03:04
Scott Matthews	Boats in Rivers	Boats in Rivers	04:50
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Don't Wanna Hear This Song	Spunker	02:16
Decade of Dreams	I've Never Felt Like This	Wild Colloquial	02:47
Images In Vogue	Anxiety Reaction	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:00
Images In Vogue	Welcome to Sorrow	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:07
Glen Meadmore	Just a Girl	Chicken & Biscuits	05:57
Blueprints	Down On My Sublife	Stare 01	04:06
Johnny Zhivago	New Things	Microalbum	03:19
Martha And The Muffins	Symptomatic Love	Trance and Dance	04:08
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets (Bonus Track)	A Price To Paris	04:15
Drastic Measures	Maniacs in Cadillacs	ST	02:38
Golden Calgarians	Happy Man	Savage Love	02:10
FM109	L'ecole est fuckee	ST	04:19
The Front	Underworld	Underworld	03:59
Popular Front	Puppet	Doomsday Army b/w Puppet	03:17
Psyche	You're the Only One	Mystery Hotel	03:28
Kinetic Ideals	In a Second	A Personal View (EP)	06:59
Martha And The Muffins	Danseparc (Every Day It's Tomorrow)	Danseparc	03:22
Scenics	One Comes Closer	Underneath the Door	03:18
Tyro	City Life	A Little More Time (EP)	03:02
Glamorcult	Images of Monlight	Early Glamour	04:19
Land of Giants	Just Yet	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:30
Melinite	Waiting 4-U	Push The Button And Run!	01:48
Austra	The Beast	Feel it Break	04:02
Eight Seconds	Chopin's Heart	Big Houses	04:51
Martha And The Muffins	Halfway Through the Week	Trance and Dance	03:41
Bobby and Synthia	Big Tits	thirty-six hours (EP)	03:44
Tim Ray	Now What Was That	ST	02:58
Welcome Home	Top of the World	In This Life b/w Top of the World (picture sleeve)	04:02
Dancespeak	Heart of My Song	Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)	03:49
Regulators	What's in the City	What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)	03:42
True Confessions	He's a Liar	ST	03:16
FM109	S.O.S.	ST	03:54
Bicycle Thieves	Picking Up Pens	ST	04:17
Erect	Cry of a Leo	Consequence of Life	02:48
Annabelle's Room	Classical Rage	ST	03:30
Bündock	Season for Love	Société Anonyme	04:11
Rational Youth	Call Me	Heredity	02:59
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:12
Psyche	The Sundial	The Influence	03:38
Volts	Dirty Money	Plugged In	02:59
The Front	Looking For You	Gina's at a Party	04:32
Images In Vogue	Anxiety Reaction	Educated Man	04:05
Billy Butt & The Brats	Surveillance	Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No	03:21
Start	Bad Girl	Hey You	03:53
Start	Hey You	Hey You	04:03
Philip Rambow	Snakes And Ladders	Jungle Law	03:52
Extras	Teddy	Bit Parts	05:50
Glamatron	Facial Saviour	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	05:02
Kinetic Ideals	Maze of Ways	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	04:09
Hot Tip	Hard to be Me	Stop All Motion	03:50
Perfect World	Have a Good Look	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	05:10
A Neon Rome	Cums a Wolf	New Heroin	04:15
B-Sides	No Can Do	Red to Black	03:00
Hygiene Club	Hawaii	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	03:00
Bündock	Silhouette	Société Anonyme	04:06
Braineaters	Closet Case	Planet X	01:26
I Braineater	Waste	I Here, Where You	02:39
Extras	No Generation	Bit Parts	02:33
Government	Portrait	How Many Fingers?	02:36
Cannon Heath Down	A Charming Sound	Heart-Throb Companion	04:25
Blue Peter	Time and Money	Test Patterns For Living	02:07
45's	Say You'll Be Mine	On the Beach	03:15

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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