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
Deserters	Innervisions	ST	03:34
Robert Armes	Nearly Out of Control	Nearly Out of Control b/w Radio Active	03:35
Pukka Orchestra	Listen to the Radio	ST	03:48
Tyro	Told You	A Little More Time (EP)	03:28
Voice	Business as Usual in Beirut	Anno Di Voce	04:27
Beach Punks	She Got Body Talk	She Got Body Talk	04:52
Interpol	When Rock 'n' Roll Was in the Hole	ST	02:26
Within Gothic Towers	In The Darkness	Within Gothic Towers	04:38
John Young Paul	The Monster in Ed	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:06
Braineaters	Modern Man Pt 2	Planet X	01:16
Villains	Wendy's Melody	Go Crazy	03:47
Images In Vogue	Breaking Up	Pre-release	04:30
Reactors	Alien Radio	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:22
Novels	Son of Sam	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	02:35
Awake The Echoes	You're More Trouble Than You' re Worth	Normal Life	03:58
Age of Mirrors	The Day the Earth Stands Still - Breathless	Mirage	05:44
Handful of Snowdrops	Alice in Wonderland (1992)	Mort en direct	05:20
Pukka Orchestra	Spies of the Heart	ST	02:50
NEO A4	Home	The Warmer Side of You	02:53
Martha And The Muffins	Sinking Land	Metro Music	05:28
Moev	Kim Says	Dusk and Desire	03:41
Ceramic Hello	Geometry	The Absence of a Canary	07:25
Tenants	Let 'Em Go	Visions of Our Future	04:28
Dada	I.D	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:29
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cold War Nightlife	03:14
Kinetic Ideals	Structures	Reason (EP)	04:47
Velveteens	Flies	Tall House (EP)	04:09
Psyche	Uncivilized	Mystery Hotel	03:41
The Front	Your Street	Underworld	04:10
Oui	Turn of the Century	Oui	04:13
The Gas	Special This Week	Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)	02:14
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
Ceramic Hello	Staticarnival	The Absence of a Canary	01:18
Neon	Second Wind	ST (EP)	02:52
Philip Rambow	Jessica	Jungle Law	04:00
Golden Calgarians	New Desperados	New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)	03:07
Handful of Snowdrops	Astronauts (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:31
Bunny & the Lakers	Maid in Sweden	Numbers	04:01
Rational Youth	Just a Sound in the Night (remix)	ST (mini album)	03:45
Images In Vogue	In the House (Extended Dance Remix)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	08:25
B-Sides	Run and Hide	Red to Black	03:40
Salty Seamen	Sweet Yolanda	In The Groove At Last	03:30
I Braineater	Edge	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:30
Boys Brigade	Cut Up	Mannequin Demo	04:46
Corsage	Snakeskin (live at the Town Pump)	Big Night Out (EP)	05:22
Age of Mirrors	Orange Blossom Special	Mirage	04:00
Johnny Faith	Pure Energy	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:55
Austra	Hate Crime	Feel it Break	04:01
Me And the Mosquitos	Valium	Go Away b/w Valium	03:03
Rex Chainbelt	Goodbye Carol	Foreign Movie	03:24
Glen Meadmore	Girlene	Chicken & Biscuits	05:07
Rave Revues	Nightmares	Voices	03:36
Iko	Communication Off	83	04:34
Deserters	Present Life	ST	03:21
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Errands For Eros	Spunker	04:09
Modernettes	The Rebel Kind	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:08
Compilation	Instructions - Tell-A-Photo	The Circuit	04:42
Figures At Dawn	Close My Eyes	ST	04:54
Age of Mirrors	Raiders of the Heart	Screenplay	03:39
Compilation	Charles Kurt - The Silence Upstairs	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:11
Golden Calgarians	Getting Weaker	Savage Love	03:05
Spoons	Be Alone Tonight	Bridges Over Borders	05:11
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:06
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lonely Heart Dance	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:09
Cottage Industry	The Urge to Merge	The Winter's Tale	04:33
Inner Sanction	Runaway	Dancematic-Automatic	03:07
Awake The Echoes	Someone	Normal Life	04:07
Corsage	Shut-Ins	ST	03:11
FM109	Help	ST	02:11
Family Plot	Swagger	Convictions	03:12
Martha And The Muffins	Hide and Seek	Metro Music	03:58
Cannon Heath Down	Belly Through	Heart-Throb Companion	04:32
Secret Act	That Certain Feeling	My Neighbourhood	03:33
Blue Peter	Time and Money	Test Patterns For Living	02:07
Moral Support	Whatever Turns You On	Insanity	04:10
I Braineater	Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6)	I Here, Where You	09:19
Inner Sanction	Sparkle	Shake Up - Fly Down	02:51
Men Without Hats	I Got the Message	The Safety Dance	04:47
Spoons	Dropped Dishes	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:58
A Day in Paris	Child's Cry	Prey	03:45
39 Steps	A Taste of Poison [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:35
Spoons	South American Vacation	Arias & Symphonies	04:12
Psyche	Misery's Return	The Influence	04:57
Oui	People Talk	Oui	03:50
Drastic Measures	I Need You Now	ST	02:43
Martha And The Muffins	Am I On?	Trance and Dance	03:24
Benjamin Russell	Boffo	Madman	02:12
A Neon Rome	Cums A Wolf	A Neon Rome	04:15
Benjamin Russell	Can You See Me?	Madman	01:27
Martha And The Muffins	Boy Without Filters	This Is The Ice Age	04:58
Timothy Chipman	Strange Days	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:48
Red Herring	Feelings	Taste Tests	02:21
Handful of Snowdrops	A Short Story (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	06:24
Lawn	Rites	Peace in the Valley	03:48
The Front	Simple Dreams	Gina's at a Party	03:39
Compilation	Glamatron - Pop Tarts	The Circuit	02:53
Spoons	Only for Athletes	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	05:29
Glamorcult	Interlude	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:30
Compilation	Winston Hancock & The Changes - Stood Up	The Circuit	02:42
Salty Seamen	Too Late to Worry Now	In The Groove At Last	03:52

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Hunger Project - Demo 1982

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Hunger Project - The Same Inside b/w Assembly

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Boys Brigade - Interview with Boys Brigade and Producer Geddy Lee

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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Voice - Anno Di Voce

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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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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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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