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
Psyche	Wink of an Eye	Insomnia Theatre	05:37
Spoons	Out of My Hands	Talkback	03:19
Timothy Chipman	Night Patrol	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:22
Rarefaction	I Dreamt	Abstract Minds b/w I Dreamt (picture sleeve)	04:04
UJ3RK5	Reason Sleeps Tonight	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:42
39 Steps	Teachers	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:22
Vis-A-Vis	Dance With Me	Heart and Soul	03:56
Carbon Unit	The Marsh	The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)	02:45
Spoons	Red Light	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:44
Salty Seamen	Too Late to Worry Now	In The Groove At Last	03:52
Rational Youth	Cité phosphore	Cité phosphoree b/w Le meilleur des mondes	04:05
Rational Youth	Just a Sound in the Night	Cold War Nightlife	05:06
One Hand Clapping	Bad Pianos	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	01:26
Diodes	No Time to Cry (1981 Previously Unreleased) (CD only)	Rarities	03:43
FM109	Food On Nuclear Device	ST	06:38
Vital Sines	Hype	Collage	04:43
Red Herring	If You Work for Me	Taste Tests	03:38
Thieves	Screams	I See Red	04:40
Family Plot	Swagger	Convictions	03:12
Drastic Measures	I Need You Now	ST	02:43
Barking Boys	Incident In St. Jamestown	The Yes Girls	04:58
Drastic Measures	I Feel Bad	ST	02:04
Tau Ceti	Radiation	Radiation b/w Bathed in Dark Light	04:20
Neon	Til Midnight	ST (EP)	03:23
Bruce PM	More Joyful Noise	Makeshift	03:31
Degrees of Freedom	Call Me Midnight	China	04:51
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
UJ3RK5	The Anglican	ST (EP)	03:53
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:49
Compilation	Winston Hancock & The Changes - Love at First Sight	The Circuit	02:36
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Exit From a Dream	04:33
Deserters	Take It Away	ST	03:26
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	New Heroin	05:20
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cold War Nightlife	03:14
Fictions	Don't Look Down	ST	02:31
Shock Culture	Haunted by Tokyo	ST (EP)	03:49
Pukka Orchestra	Your Secret is Safe With Me	ST	04:11
Spoons	Clever	Bridges Over Borders	03:39
K	Sliding In	Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)	03:11
Glamatron	The Word (Death In September)	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:24
A Day in Paris	wItHoUt yOu	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:19
A Neon Rome	Cums A Wolf	A Neon Rome	04:15
Modern Minds	20 Years Old	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:59
Corsage	Snakeskin (live at the Town Pump)	Big Night Out (EP)	05:22
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:41
Living End (1)	Steal a Smile	ST	03:20
Glamorcult	A Dream Girl To Me	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:23
Erect	We Are Police	Consequence of Life	02:14
Martha And The Muffins	Was Ezo	Trance and Dance	03:58
Land of Giants	Fountains in the Rain	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:30
Kings	Love Store	Are Here	03:28
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Call	Midnite News	07:14
Spoons	Camera Shy	Talkback	04:07
Glamorcult	Tropical Romance	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	04:21
UJ3RK5	Hash Dreams of the Everyday Housewife	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:26
The Play	Line of Fire	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:45
Glamorcult	Fusion (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:23
Time Twins	Yuri Song	Yuri Song b/w Say Uncle (picture sleeve)	07:03
Spoons	Don't Shoot the Messenger	Talkback	03:19
Border	Black and White	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:01
Handful of Snowdrops	Spiral Dive (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	02:36
Moral Lepers	Music is Your Body	Turn to Stone	02:45
Modernettes	The Rebel Kind	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:08
Glamorcult	Crestfallen	A Price To Paris	03:37
Images In Vogue	Lust for Love	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:18
One Hand Clapping	Angry Weather	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	04:23
Age of Mirrors	Juliet's Dancing	Mirage	04:49
Bunny & the Lakers	Shrieks From the Peeks	Numbers	03:10
Diodes	Tired Of Waking Up Tired (original demo 1978)	Rarities	03:29
Bumpers	Ian	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	03:26
Cardboard Brains	Babies Run My World	Live At The Edge	02:07
Eight Seconds	Kiss You (When It's Dangerous)	Almacantar	04:07
Cannon Heath Down	Safe As Milk	Heart-Throb Companion	03:35
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls b/w Seven Men	05:12
Modernettes	Won't Have To Worry	Gone..But Not Forgiven	02:22
Reasons	The Fall	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:59
Extras	I Never Told You, I Told You So	The Watcher (EP)	04:26
Strange Advance	Watermusic	Worlds Away	00:55
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:06
Salty Seamen	I'm Done	In The Groove At Last	03:50
Eight Seconds	Zoe	Almacantar	04:54
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Don't Be Afraid	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	04:30
Punkin Machine	Zarcon Rock On	Zarcon Rock On // Zarcon Rock On	03:40
I Braineater	Sacred Cow	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:03
Johnny Zhivago	Echo	Microalbum	04:03
Scenics	Bubbles	Underneath the Door	02:26
Tyro	City Life	A Little More Time (EP)	03:02
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:12
NEO A4	Las Vegas	The Warmer Side of You	03:25
Modern Minds	All Day & All of the Night	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:18
Extras	Cult Kids	Bit Parts	03:07
I Braineater	Comeon	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:44
Kaméléon	Caravane (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	03:32
Drastic Measures	Maniacs in Cadillacs	ST	02:38
Scenics	Great Piles of Leaves	Underneath the Door	04:18
Oui	On Our Way	Oui	03:36
Braineaters	Modern Man	Planet X	02:15
Volts	Never Enough	Plugged In	03:03
Scenics	I'm Sad	New Part In Town	05:04
Chemicals	Run and Hide	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	02:49

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Hunger Project - The Same Inside b/w Assembly

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Hunger Project - Demo 1982

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Klō - Demo 1981

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Klō - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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Klō - Demo 1982

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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Beach Punks - She Got Body Talk

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Hush - Replay

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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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