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	The Mess	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:09
Cardboard Brains	And So I Hide	Live At The Edge	03:46
Klō	Dreaming	Demo 1982	03:54
Moev	Sweet Nothings	Dusk and Desire	04:33
UJ3RK5	The Locator	ST (EP)	03:11
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:18
Within Gothic Towers	Is This My Moment Of Glory	Within Gothic Towers	04:01
Benjamin Russell	Power of Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:37
Age of Mirrors	Wave About Her	Mirage	04:33
Decade of Dreams	Tra la la	Wild Colloquial	02:58
Kaméléon	Pique-nique (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	02:22
Mettle	Five-Four	ST	04:39
Blue Oil	Somewhere Over the Rainbow	ST	02:31
Modernes Pickles	Garbage	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:04
Toe Beat	Stranger	Stranger	03:42
DeMars	Véhiculation humaine	Les Télé-Têtes	04:54
Martha And The Muffins	Sins of Children	Danseparc	05:37
Spoons	South American Vacation	Arias & Symphonies	04:12
Volts	Welcome	Plugged In	04:21
Faded Films	Jack in the Box	Faded Years	05:06
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Drama	Space Age Punks	Loneliness	02:37
Moev	Common House	Zimmerkampf	03:27
Rex Chainbelt	Rich Man	Foreign Movie	02:52
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Sister H. Immaculata	Spunker	02:12
Compilation	Julie Choquette - Dream in My Head	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:34
Martha And The Muffins	Am I On?	Trance and Dance	03:24
Lou Champagne System	Another Dimension	No Visible Means	04:50
Johnny Zhivago	Echo	Microalbum	04:03
The Idles	Please Don't Call	The Idles Demo	02:44
Channel Five	So Good to Me	ST (EP)	03:17
Inner Sanction	White Boy Rap	Dancematic-Automatic	05:58
Time Twins	Say Uncle	Yuri Song b/w Say Uncle (picture sleeve)	04:16
Jon Mullane	Destiny	Following Yesterday	04:45
Punkin Machine	Zarcon Rock On	Zarcon Rock On // Zarcon Rock On	03:40
Entrance System	No Relative	Imperfect Image	03:19
The Front	The Moon Is a Stranger	Underworld	03:12
The Front	You Can't Do That	Underworld	03:54
Strange Advance	Hold On to the Nite	Worlds Away	04:34
Bündock	Pris par le temps	Société Anonyme	03:23
Living End (1)	Naive	ST	02:25
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
Handful of Snowdrops	In the Eye of the Storm	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:25
Popular Front (1)	September Reign	This is the Rubicon	03:12
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
ACTORS	Slaves	It Will Come to You	03:33
Men Without Hats	Safety Dance	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:24
Tim Ray	Lost Lagoon (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:52
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Over Mountains	Ohama aka The White Album	03:14
Bumpers	Media Music	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:30
Moev	Rotting Geraniums	Zimmerkampf	04:51
Breeding Ground	Thin Red Line	Wintergarden (EP)	04:22
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Hothouse	ST	04:32
Iko	Gonado Tropic Synthesis	83	07:18
Edsells	She Escaped	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	04:22
The End	Just Another Dream	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	04:04
Vital Sines	Ice Statue	Collage	04:41
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Love in 3-D	Space and Time	03:36
Dada	If I'm Blind	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:46
DeMars	Les enfants dans la lune	Les Télé-Têtes	02:54
Modernes Pickles	Possessed in the City	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:28
Lawn	Rites	Peace in the Valley	03:48
Psyche	You're the Only One	Mystery Hotel	03:28
Living End (1)	Dislocation	ST	03:16
Numbers	Sideways Elevator	Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it	03:09
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Tim Ray	Silent Partner (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:47
Instructions	Learn from Computers	ST	04:15
David Raven & the Escorts	One Way Love	David Raven And The Escorts	02:36
Numbers	Sideways Elevator	Add Up	03:33
This Fear	Look Along The Edge	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:38
Hunger Project	The Same Inside	Demo 1982	07:07
Compilation	Mark Malibu And The Wasagas - Buzz Beat	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	04:12
Oui	Turn of the Century	Oui	04:13
Iko	Model Type A	83	05:08
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cold War Nightlife	03:14
Benjamin Russell	Pop Modern(e)	Pop Modern(e)	03:51
Magic Dragon	Once Upon a Time	Emotional Landscape	04:25
Braineaters	Wrong World	Planet X	02:35
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls b/w Seven Men	05:12
Klō	Weirdo	Demo 1982	03:38
Compilation	Pat Grehan - Fury Girl	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:13
Ralph Mashats	Irradies	Irradies b/w Empty Eyes (Fly My Way) (picture sleeve)	03:54
Handful of Snowdrops	Still We Live (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:37
Rex Chainbelt	Talk It Over	Foreign Movie	02:15
Thieves	Color	I See Red	04:09
DeMars	Les cosmétiques cosmiques	Les Télé-Têtes	03:48
Spoons	Arias & Symphonies	Arias & Symphonies	04:47
Moev	Ophelia	Dusk and Desire	03:59
I Braineater	Sacred Cow	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:03
Strange Advance	Worlds Away	Worlds Away	07:00
Martha And The Muffins	About Insomnia	Trance and Dance	03:12
Vital Sines	Sex & Babies	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:40
The Diodes	Tired Of Waking Up Tired (original demo 1978)	Rarities	03:29
Bicycle Thieves	Imperial Love	ST	04:07
Compilation	Mike Peters - Trucker's Paradise	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
The Scene (2)	Rise	Only in Paradise	05:12
NEO A4	Around the World	ST	04:00
I Braineater	Gastly Dance	I Here, Where You	01:26
Thieves	Kopper & Iron	I See Red	03:38

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever

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ACTORS - Part Time Punks Session EP

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ACTORS - Slaves (FM Attack RMX)

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ACTORS - Mining for Heart

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ACTORS - Acts of Worship

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ACTORS - One Hundred Years

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ACTORS - It Will Come to You

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ACTORS - Reanimated

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Bleu Néon - Cité Promise

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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Maurice & The Clichés - ST

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Maurice & The Clichés - Veronika

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Maurice & The Clichés - Soft Core

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Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

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Minutes From Downtown - ST

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Joe Naylor - I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights

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Modernes Pickles - Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985

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Modernes Pickles - We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White

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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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Rob Bryanton - Alcohol And Other Drugs

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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The Keys - Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)

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Maja Bannerman - Songs by Maja Bannerman

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Blue Oil - Blue Oil (1981-83)

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Blue Oil - ST

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The Chemicals - Break Time

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The Chemicals - Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide

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Vex - DNA

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