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
The Front	News to You	Underworld	05:11
Glamorcult	Yes, See Has the Afterglow	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:32
Numbers	Mr. Dempster	Add Up	03:49
I Braineater	Waste	I Here, Where You	02:39
Zipper	Slowtown Rats	Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll) b/w Slowtown Rats	02:51
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	04:27
Rational Youth	I've Got a Sister in the Navy	Heredity	03:41
Johnny Faith	Standing On the Red Line	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:52
Maurice & The Clichés	Mixed Emotions	ST	03:53
Golden Calgarians	New Desperados	New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)	03:07
Golden Calgarians	My Big Truck	Savage Love	03:25
Channel 5	So Good to Me	ST (EP)	03:19
Maurice & The Clichés	Top Forty	ST	03:37
Glamorcult	She Touched My Soul	Early Glamour	04:50
B-Sides	Red to Black	Red to Black	03:20
Hot Tip	Never Look Back	Stop All Motion	03:25
The Diodes	Polaroid	Action-Reaction	02:37
Toe Beat	Stranger	Stranger	03:42
Handful of Snowdrops	Terroir I	Land of the Damned	02:41
Strange Advance	Watermusic	Worlds Away	00:55
Instructions	Tell-a-Photo	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:38
Norda	Snakes And Ladders	West Over Seas	02:51
Strange Advance	Love Games	Worlds Away	03:51
39 Steps	Let's Flirt With Danger	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:16
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a T.V. Set	Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.	05:08
Philip Rambow	Jungle Law	Jungle Law	03:15
Theo Vandenhoff	Wong Kar-wai	Saviour on the Spilled Blood	02:36
Scissors	Nadine	ST	02:03
Benjamin Russell	Dance Man	Pop Modern(e)	04:12
Benjamin Russell	You Took Me for a Ride	Madman	02:44
Martha And The Muffins	What People Do for Fun	Danseparc	04:02
Maurice & The Clichés	Mystery Member - Mr. Remember	ST	02:56
Decade of Dreams	Sarah	Wild Colloquial	02:26
Compilation	Arrows - Come On Up	Toronto Calling	02:57
Compilation	Breeding Ground - Thin Red Line	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	05:08
The Government	Gunshot Wound	Electric Eye	02:56
Salty Seamen	Lime Green Blues	In The Groove At Last	02:29
Mad Shadows	747	Music in the Night	03:29
Entrance System	Minimal Spirits	Imperfect Image	03:24
Hygiene Club	Pantechnicon - for Gary	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	01:15
Red Herring	Maturity	Taste Tests	04:23
Direktive 17	You’re Only Dreaming	ST (EP)	04:01
Scenics	Jonathan Richman	New Part In Town	03:18
Hunger Project	Assembly	Demo 1982	04:48
Bruce PM	From Sparks to Embers	Makeshift	06:15
Scott Matthews	Boats in Rivers	Boats in Rivers	04:50
Boys Brigade	Exodus	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:12
Modernes Pickles	Strawberry Slush	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:21
Neurons	New Location	Midnight Meetings b/w New Location	00:07
I Braineater	Canada	Artist, Poet, Thief	02:23
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Fast Mix)	Strange Pleasures EP	09:34
Moral Lepers	Suicide	Turn to Stone	02:06
The Front	The Same Girl	Underworld	04:14
Voice	Lime	Anno Di Voce	02:58
Volts	Loneliness in the Air Age	Plugged In	02:43
Kaméléon	Omnibus Cactus	ST	02:48
Utopiate	Actions or Misguidance	You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance	03:06
A Day in Paris	Prey	Prey	04:56
Golden Calgarians	Thousand Chains	Savage Love	03:51
Maurice & The Clichés	Please Yourself	ST	01:57
Glamorcult	Session 2 (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	03:24
Modernes Pickles	Madwoman Incanting Against Ghouls	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:03
Paperboys (1)	Looking for Sharon	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	02:57
The Hurt	Local Belt	Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)	03:18
Steve Blimkie (and the Reason)	I Got This Feeling	Blimkie	02:13
Tim Ray	Now What Was That	ST	02:58
Klō	Try	Demo 1981	04:22
Drama	Old Hollywood	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	03:32
Age of Mirrors	Columbus Discovers America	Screenplay	03:12
Pukka Orchestra	The Deserter	ST	00:50
100 Flowers	The Best Status Symbol	21st Guessing	02:54
Scenics	I Killed Marx	Underneath the Door	04:29
John Young Paul	Is That Why?	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:07
Rave Revues	Self Inflicted Wounds	Voices	03:06
Compilation	The Dave Howard Singers - They Come They Go	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	03:33
Theo Vandenhoff	Foreign Legion	Saviour on the Spilled Blood	04:28
Philip Rambow	Jessica	Jungle Law	04:00
Kinetic Ideals	Animalistic	Reason (EP)	05:09
Handful of Snowdrops	Astronauts (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:31
Living End	Death at an Early Age	Death at an Early Age b/w Magic Carpet Ride	03:12
Modernes Pickles	Sex in America	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:43
Dis Band	One Man Army	Gone Dead Out	03:20
Moev	In Your Head	Zimmerkampf	04:35
Spoons	Life On Demand	New Day New World	04:14
45's	Real Confused	On the Beach	02:15
DeMars	Les enfants dans la lune	Les Télé-Têtes	02:54
Theo Vandenhoff	Temper	Collected EPs	05:01
Blue Oil	Far Too Much	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:52
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	A Giant Starfish	Ohama aka The White Album	04:11
Bumpers	Log 1	EP	04:44
The Edge	Play the Game	Release the Circle	04:07
Psyche	Lord Unleashed	Unveiling The Secret	03:22
Handful of Snowdrops	The Ghost of a Song	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:44
Glamorcult	Live for Today	Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)	03:37
Tenants	Death of Innocence	Visions of Our Future	03:39
Palace at 4 a.m.	Kiss of a Fish	Untamed World	03:29
ACTORS	Post Traumatic Love	Reanimated	03:20
Red Herring	Feelings	Taste Tests	02:21
ACTORS	Bird in Hand	It Will Come to You	03:06

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Glamorcult - Shadows From The Past

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