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
Big Dog	Monkey See, Monkey Do	99 Change Hands	01:52
Volts	As the Radio Died	Plugged In	03:35
Bumpers	Ian	EP	03:26
ACTORS	Post Traumatic Love (Slow Waves Remix)	Reanimated	05:04
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39
Family Plot	Taxi Driver	Convictions	05:17
Spoons	Arias & Symphonies	Arias & Symphonies	04:47
Blue Peter	Cloak and Dagger	Test Patterns For Living	03:45
Spoons	Young English Gentleman	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:35
Broken Tables	Image of You	ST	04:24
Golden Calgarians	Galaxina	Savage Love	03:06
Popular Front	Puppet Man	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	03:17
B-Sides	Underground Radio Stars (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:40
This Fear	Look Along The Edge	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:38
True Confessions	26264	ST	02:15
Handful of Snowdrops	Face to Face	Land of the Damned	06:09
Compilation	S.S. - Working Girl	No Pedestrians	03:09
Martha And The Muffins	Am I On?	Trance and Dance	03:24
The Government	How Many Fingers?	How Many Fingers?	07:21
Thieves	Police Squad	I See Red	03:27
NEO A4	Las Vegas	The Warmer Side of You	03:25
Mettle	The Second Person	ST	03:47
Salty Seamen	Club Hot de Paris	In The Groove At Last	02:03
Magic Dragon	Egyptian Radio	Emotional Landscape	04:12
Benjamin Russell	Gentle Charms	Madman	01:48
CosmaNat	Camping Song	Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)	02:17
John Young Paul	The Boulevards of Hope	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:37
Spoons	Annita	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:21
Rex Chainbelt	Foreign Movie	Foreign Movie	02:42
Strange Advance	She Controls Me	Worlds Away	02:59
Pukka Orchestra	Might as Well be on Mars	ST	05:05
Red Herring	Love Machine	Taste Tests	03:32
Iko	Communication Off	83	04:34
Golden Calgarians	It's OK	Savage Love	03:13
Benjamin Russell	Broken-Hearted Lovers	Madman	02:30
Darkroom	Pressure	San Paku	04:09
Mettle	Evening Ocean	ST	02:58
Kaméléon	Rouge barbele	ST	04:54
DeMars	Out of Sight	Stories from between the Walls	05:25
Oui	On Our Way	Oui	03:36
FM109	S.O.S.	ST	03:54
Moev	Common House	Zimmerkampf	03:27
Rheostatics	My Generation	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:04
Scissors	All This And More	ST	02:46
Utopiate	You've Been Warned	You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance	03:41
45's	She's In Love	On the Beach	03:27
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Upcoming Storm	Space and Time	03:38
Insex	One	One (EP)	04:47
Images In Vogue	In the House	In The House	04:07
Maurice & The Clichés	Beautiful Girls	C'est la vie	03:49
Bunny & the Lakers	Weekend Guests	Numbers	01:57
Glamorcult	Where is the Love	Atlantis Under the Sea	03:53
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't Look Now	Spunker	03:44
Golden Calgarians	Happy Man	Savage Love	02:10
Awake The Echoes	Someone	Normal Life	04:07
ACTORS	Slaves (FM Attack RMX)	Slaves (FM Attack RMX)	02:52
Cottage Industry	The Crucial Moment	The Winter's Tale	03:49
Braineaters	Wrong World	Planet X	02:35
Nex'd	Surreal	Surreal (EP)	05:45
ACTORS	Like U Want 2	Reanimated	03:40
Klō	Baby Wants a Baby	Demo 1981	04:18
The Scene (2)	Meet the Man	Only in Paradise	03:54
Benjamin Russell	Pop Modern(e)	Pop Modern(e)	03:51
Fictions	Shuffle	ST	02:39
The Idles	Wildcat	The Idles Demo	03:59
Living End (1)	Is it Murder	ST	03:34
The Edge	Go Away	Release the Circle	03:11
Spoons	The First & Last Time	New Day New World	04:54
Rarefaction	Open Up Your Heart	Ordinary Man	04:12
Land of Giants	Thing Called Love	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	06:57
The Diodes	Curiosity Girl (1977 previously unreleased version)	Rarities	02:51
Theo Vandenhoff	House in the Country	Saviour on the Spilled Blood	03:58
Tribal Earth	Interaction - Reaction	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	05:49
Images In Vogue	Holiday (Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	04:16
Handful of Snowdrops	A Short Story (1985)	Mort en direct	07:10
Null Set	Rubber Wings	New Job (EP)	03:31
Conning Tower	Looking Up From Under	Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under	03:35
Space Invaders	I Wake Up Being	ST (EP)	03:08
Psyche	Haunted	The Influence	04:10
Contradance	Trouble in the Darkness	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	05:53
Vital Sines	Climbing the Air	Big Dark Dreams	03:09
Psyche	Insatiable	Mystery Hotel	04:41
Channel 5	Record Go Round	ST (EP)	02:40
Compilation	Hygiene Club - Interview	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	06:10
Modernes Pickles	Cactus Cowboy	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:23
Shanghai Lil	Flower And a Bee	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:28
Ceramic Hello	M - EX	The Absence of a Canary	00:23
Compilation	Direktive 17 - Mr. Jones	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:38
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:14
Golden Calgarians	Thousand Chains	Savage Love	03:51
Johnny Zhivago	New Things	Microalbum	03:19
Handful of Snowdrops	Chemical Engineering (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:22
Braineaters	Modern Man Pt 2	Planet X	01:16
The Government	On the Prowl	Electric Eye	04:42
Bunny & the Lakers	Maid in Sweden	Numbers	04:01
Fictions	Fixation	ST	03:19
The Government	Following You	Electric Eye	02:07
Modernes Pickles	Brothurs	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:17
Hush	Dancing in East Berlin	Replay	04:17
Pukka Orchestra	Listen to the Radio	ST	03:48

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Glass Apple Bonzai - Love & Hatred in MegaWave City

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Eight Seconds - Big Houses

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Eight Seconds - Almacantar

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Theo Vandenhoff - Saviour on the Spilled Blood

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Theo Vandenhoff - In The Throes Of Love

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Theo Vandenhoff - Heartache Is An Empty Room

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Theo Vandenhoff - Alles Ist Besser

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Theo Vandenhoff - Collected EPs

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Theo Vandenhoff - Tenement

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Sound FX - Sound FX

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Sandro Durante - Don't Go (Breaking My Heart) b/w All That Magic

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Hypno-Gogo - In Your Eyes b/w Flashing

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Mad Shadows - Music in the Night

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The Modern Minds - Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Space Invaders - ST (EP)

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Dis Band - Gone Dead Out

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Compilation - Saskatoon Rocks

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The Government - How Many Fingers?

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The Government - Electric Eye

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The Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

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Bumpers - EP

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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Ross Angeles - Salute

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - You Can´t Hold Me Anymore b/w Freaks On the Tube

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - Blimkie

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Drama - Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)

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Drama - Loneliness

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Glamorcult - Atlantis Under the Sea

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Glamorcult - A Price To Paris

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