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
Benjamin Russell	Take Me As You Find Me	Madman	02:25
Pukka Orchestra	The Deserter	ST	00:50
Scenics	I Killed Marx	Underneath the Door	04:29
Martha And The Muffins	This is the Ice Age	This Is The Ice Age	07:34
Minutes From Downtown	Heaven Street	ST	04:35
A Neon Rome	The Magical Summer Of ’85	A Neon Rome	03:17
B-Sides	Underground Radio Stars (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:40
Men Without Hats	Safety Dance	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:24
Men Without Hats	Modern Dancing	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:29
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:04
Eight Seconds	No Picasso	Big Houses	05:04
Braineaters	Kid Stuff	Planet X	01:33
Psyche	The Influence	The Influence	04:17
Einstein	Bedroom Mirror Rock Star	Sex and Science	04:03
Second Thoughts	Wound Up	Integrity b/w Wound Up	02:50
Kaméléon	Napalm	ST	02:54
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heart of the Mind	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:27
Images In Vogue	Victimize	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:19
Spoons	A Girl in Two Pieces	Arias & Symphonies	04:27
DeMars	Torn to Pieces	Stories from between the Walls	03:35
Martha And The Muffins	Trance and Dance	Trance and Dance	07:14
Compilation	The Sharks - Get Off the Radio	No Pedestrians	03:00
Dream Child	Luv On the Line	Heaven Knows b/w Luv On the Line	04:11
Martha And The Muffins	Paint By Number Heart	Metro Music	03:28
Glamorcult	Thing Of Beauty	The Stone Sessions	03:57
Fictions	Snob Appeal	ST	03:53
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News	Midnite News	07:10
Diodes	Time of Your Life (1978 Previously Unreleased)	Rarities	02:46
Tim Ray	Promised You (April, 1979)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:31
Bora Bora	Starting Over	Fashion Passion b/w Starting Over	04:23
Extras	High-Tech Promises	The Road to Zambando	03:34
The Idles	Again and Again	The Idles Demo	02:54
Scenics	Bubbles	Underneath the Door	02:26
Moral Lepers	Beryl Bean	Turn to Stone	02:41
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	03:56
Living End (1)	The Procession	ST	04:40
Cottage Industry	The Crucial Moment	The Winter's Tale	03:49
Faded Films	East of the Asylum	Faded Years	04:46
Pukka Orchestra	Rubber Girl	ST	04:34
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Mad at the World	Space and Time	03:51
Glamorcult	Cocktail Conversations	A Price To Paris	04:32
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	T.V.	Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.	04:33
Strange Advance	She Controls Me	Worlds Away	02:59
Bündock	Pris par le temps	Société Anonyme	03:23
Scenics	O Boy	Underneath the Door	01:58
Tim Ray	Hate (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:22
NEO A4	Say This to Me	ST	03:31
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Diodes	Hot Sands	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:32
Deserters	Present Life	ST	03:21
45's	She's In Love	On the Beach	03:27
Deserters	Innervisions	ST	03:34
Strange Advance	Sister Radio	Worlds Away	05:20
Norda	Snakes And Ladders	West Over Seas	02:51
Rex Chainbelt	Allies	Foreign Movie	03:47
Eight Seconds	Call and a Cry	Almacantar	04:11
Timothy Chipman	Ghost Parade	Ghost Parade	02:25
NEO A4	Around the World	ST	04:00
Leotards	Suicide Lover	Suicide Lover b/w Runaway Bridge	03:15
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	My Time	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	05:15
Norda	V	West Over Seas	05:27
Melinite	My Anna of Discretion	Push The Button And Run!	02:36
Rational Youth	I've Got a Sister in the Navy	Heredity	03:41
The Idles	Crush	The Idles Demo	04:17
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:06
Boys Brigade	Touch Glass	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	03:25
Awake The Echoes	The Best Thing	Normal Life	02:38
DeMars	Le fou sur l'île	Les Télé-Têtes	04:04
Bündock	Tied for Time	Société Anonyme	03:55
Tenants	Look the Other Way	ST	03:25
Drama	Electronic Pink Panther	Loneliness	02:23
Blue Oil	Innocent Boys	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:45
Diodes	Curiosity Girl (1977 previously unreleased version)	Rarities	02:51
Government	Fumigators	Electric Eye	04:27
Images In Vogue	For Germans	Pre-release	04:54
Vital Sines	Erik the Generik	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:45
Popular Front	Christian Education	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	04:29
Rational Youth	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	Cold War Nightlife	04:34
Darkroom	Tears Hold No Cure	San Paku	03:46
Instructions	Ha - Ha Ha	ST	04:29
Golden Calgarians	Happy Man	Savage Love	02:10
Martha And The Muffins	What People Do for Fun	Danseparc	04:02
Absolute 9	Fence	ST	02:58
Within Gothic Towers	I Will Lead You	Within Gothic Towers	04:58
Glamorcult	The Fight Is Over	Shadows From The Past	04:10
I Braineater	Songs for the Masses	I Here, Where You	03:43
Within Gothic Towers	I've Got A Reason And You've Got A Prayer	Within Gothic Towers	04:41
Kultur	Altar	Kultur	03:59
Volts	As the Radio Died	Plugged In	03:35
Martha And The Muffins	Primal Weekend	Trance and Dance	05:14
Modernes Pickles	Burning Airwaves	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:30
Spoons	I've Been Here Before	Vertigo Tango	03:58
B-Sides	Underground Radio Stars (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	01:59
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Quasi Hands	Parallel Lines	ST	03:19
Bruce PM	Senility	Makeshift	02:27
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Rock 'N' Roll	Ohama aka The White Album	04:26
Strange Advance	Hold On to the Nite	Worlds Away	04:34
Glamorcult	Images of Monlight	Early Glamour	04:19
Government	Paranoid Downtown Funk Pt. 2	How Many Fingers?	02:32

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Tim Ray - History Lessons 1978-1984

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Popular Front - Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious

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Popular Front - Doomsday Army b/w Puppet

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Klō - No Money b/w The Parking Lot Song

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Klō - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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Klō - Fun b/w Weirdo

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Spoons - Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party

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Spoons - New Day New World

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Spoons - Static In Transmission

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Spoons - Vertigo Tango

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Spoons - Bridges Over Borders

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Spoons - Talkback

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Spoons - Nova Heart b/w Symmetry

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