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
Modern Minds	Girl Crazy	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:22
Velveteens	Love as a Rule	Tall House (EP)	03:03
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	New Heroin	05:20
Glamorcult	Forever Strangers	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	03:35
Blue Peter	Do the Robot	Test Patterns For Living	03:25
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Rock 'N' Roll	Ohama aka The White Album	04:26
Red Herring	Taste Tests	Taste Tests	02:50
Sebastian (Agnello)	No Compromise	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:34
Glamorcult	All Those Lies	The Stone Sessions	03:25
Drama	Hidden Melodies	Loneliness	03:54
Bangkok	Planet of My Own	Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own	03:04
Spoons	Bridges Over Borders	Bridges Over Borders	05:02
Kings	Don't let Me Know	Are Here	04:00
Glamorcult	Table Thirty	Early Glamour	03:38
Age of Mirrors	Talk of the Crowd	Mirage	04:13
Wrestlers	G.T.O.	ST	03:32
Electric Mocean	Television Eyes	Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)	03:46
Trespassing Bean Rays	Eclipse	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	01:24
Scissors	Nadine	ST	02:03
Eight Seconds	Commissioner St.	Almacantar	04:40
True Confessions	Mating Games	ST	03:06
Paperboys (1)	Saturday 12 Midnight	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	03:33
Kinetic Ideals	In a Second	A Personal View (EP)	06:59
Government	I'm Somebody	Electric Eye	01:36
Diodes	Time of Your Life (1978 Previously Unreleased)	Rarities	02:46
Glamatron	The Word (Death In September)	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:24
Drastic Measures	The Teddy Bear's Picnic	ST	02:21
Martha And The Muffins	Halfway Through the Week	Trance and Dance	03:41
Spoons	Dropped Dishes	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:58
Moral Lepers	China Rag	Turn to Stone	04:26
I Braineater	Wrong World	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:46
Sebastian (Agnello)	Stop Picking On America	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:23
Tim Ray	Silent Partner	ST	02:47
A Kid	Wrong and Bite	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	06:21
Compilation	Crash Course In Science - Kitchen Motors (Produced by John Wicks, Third Story Recording, Philadelphia, USA)	Strange Pleasures EP	02:36
Golden Calgarians	Thousand Chains	Savage Love	03:51
Interpol	Ursula (At Warsaw International)	ST	06:35
Compilation	Dale Hancocks - Carribea	Music Industry Arts 1983	01:53
Strange Advance	Sister Radio	Worlds Away	05:20
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:04
The Scene (2)	Soul Spectrum	Only in Paradise	05:09
Compilation	True Confessions - Fourth Base	No Pedestrians	02:30
Government	It Must be God-Downtown	Electric Eye	02:52
Handful of Snowdrops	Godhood (1989)	Mort en direct	04:44
Images In Vogue	Masks	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:56
Spice	Beautiful You	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	03:23
FM109	S.O.S.	ST	03:54
Entrance System	Minimal Spirits	Imperfect Image	03:24
Doppler Bros.	The Wreck of the Eaton Centre	Totally Impractical	04:27
The Front	News to You	Underworld	05:11
I Braineater	Alone	I Here, Where You	02:41
Neurons	Midnight Meetings	Midnight Meetings b/w New Location	04:27
Figures At Dawn	It Doesn't Matter	ST	04:31
Breeding Ground	Business	Obscurity And Flair	04:02
True Confessions	4th Base	ST	02:46
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midway	Midway b/w Thin Lines	06:29
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Stop	Spunker	02:57
Contradance	Black Preppies	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	02:28
Age of Mirrors	Juliet's Dancing	Mirage	04:49
Eight Seconds	Here Stood Troy	Big Houses	06:33
Bunny & the Lakers	Shrieks From the Peeks	Numbers	03:10
Golden Calgarians	Vladivostok Rock	Savage Love	04:03
A Day in Paris	Too Tired	Prey	03:34
Oui	On Our Way	Oui	03:36
Drama	Traffic	Loneliness	02:53
Absolute 9	The Gift	ST	03:03
Glamorcult	Carry the Water	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:47
Land of Giants	Room With a View	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	02:50
The Front	The Hard Line	Gina's at a Party	03:06
I Braineater	Tin Pins and Cat Fur	I Here, Where You	02:36
Kaméléon	Pique-nique (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	02:22
Government	Following You	Electric Eye	02:07
Norda	V	West Over Seas	05:27
Class Info	I Want	Inside	05:22
Tenants	Let 'Em Go	Visions of Our Future	04:28
True Confessions	26264	ST	02:15
Sex Church	Waking Up	Growing Over	05:26
Villains	Go Crazy	Go Crazy	03:17
Diodes	Polaroid	Action-Reaction	02:37
IQ	Sixth World	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:59
Golden Calgarians	Happy Man	Savage Love	02:10
Benjamin Russell	You Took Me for a Ride	Madman	02:44
Vis-A-Vis	Dance With Me	Heart and Soul	03:56
Frigidaires	5 Guys Named Moe	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:14
Cardboard Brains	Ermie Has Feelers	Live At The Edge	05:36
Compilation	Steve Wood - It's Not That Easy	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:45
I Braineater	Canada	Artist, Poet, Thief	02:23
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Educated Man	03:54
Golden Calgarians	Savage Love	Savage Love	04:16
The Front	Can't Get Started	Gina's at a Party	04:18
BB Gabor	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry)	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	02:41
Emport	Picture Frame Love Affair	Heartaches b/w Picture Frame Love Affair	04:19
Censure	Amour	Foxy Lady b/w Amour	04:33
Compilation	Tammie Chicorli - A Special Day	Music Industry Arts 1983	01:29
Ralph Mashats	Irradies	Irradies b/w Empty Eyes (Fly My Way) (picture sleeve)	03:54
100 Flowers	Darkness	21st Guessing	05:39
Odd Man Out	Whatever Happened to Us	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	04:02
Salty Seamen	Star Train	In The Groove At Last	04:01
This Fear	Soldier of This Fashion (Extended)	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:14
Diodes	Lawn Boy Lover (1977 previously unreleased)	Rarities	02:33

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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DeMars - Songs From Between The Walls

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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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A Day in Paris - Rhymes On Vinyl

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David Raven & the Escorts - David Raven And The Escorts

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