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
UJ3RK5	Marnie	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:32
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind (OHMix)	Space and Time	04:55
ACTORS	Crystal	It Will Come to You	03:40
Lou Champagne System	Do Something	No Visible Means	04:34
Scenics	Walk in the Desert	Underneath the Door	01:32
Corsage	Troubles	ST	04:57
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	Heredity	05:17
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	So Far	04:04
Tribal Earth	Who You Are (In the Movies)	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	02:46
Volts	Words on the Wind	Plugged In	02:48
B-Sides	Invasion of the Money Snatchers	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	03:19
Johnny Zhivago	Echo	Microalbum	04:03
The Modern Minds	Another World	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:15
Darkroom	It's Cold Out Here	San Paku	03:44
Electric Mocean	Television Eyes	Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)	03:46
Barking Boys	Incident In St. Jamestown	The Yes Girls	04:58
ACTORS	Exploded View	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:33
The Government	I'm Somebody	Electric Eye	01:36
Scott Matthews	Viewing Nonevents	Boats in Rivers	03:56
Braineaters	Modern Man	Planet X	02:15
Drastic Measures	The Teddy Bear's Picnic	ST	02:21
Glamorcult	The Bass of Our Style	A Price To Paris	03:53
The Diodes	Photographs Of Mars (Live At The Horseshoe June 7 1980)	Rarities	04:32
Rational Youth	Freeze	Heredity	05:00
Escalators	Strange Girl	ST	04:04
Strange Advance	Prisoner	Worlds Away	04:15
Men Without Hats	Mothers	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	12:07
DeMars	Moonshadow	Stories from between the Walls	06:28
Glamorcult	Distant Memories	The Stone Sessions	04:07
Ceramic Hello	Geometry	The Absence of a Canary	07:25
Spoons	No More Growing Up	Arias & Symphonies	03:25
Tim Ray	I'm Waiting (April, 1979)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:00
Tim Ray	Cliche (June, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:16
Benjamin Russell	Orphans	Pop Modern(e)	03:35
Degrees of Freedom	The Sound of a Jealous Heart	China	03:36
B-Sides	B-Side Shuffle	Red to Black	02:25
39 Steps	Someday is Today [original]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:33
The Front	Underworld	Underworld	03:59
One Hand Clapping	Bad Pianos	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	01:26
Modernes Pickles	Sweet Jenny	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:07
Psyche	Misery	The Influence	04:06
Living End (1)	Close Your Eyes	ST	04:53
Scenics	This Day	New Part In Town	03:08
Images In Vogue	So Careful (Extended Mix)	So Careful (Extended Mix)	07:17
Absolute 9	The Gift	ST	03:03
Mr. Science	Popeshat	Popeshat b/w Where R the Legs	04:15
Fictions	Shuffle	ST	02:39
Compilation	Julie Choquette - Dream in My Head	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:34
Handful of Snowdrops	Immortals (1985)	Mort en direct	08:24
Tabby K	Wind Or Water	Summertime b/w Wind Or Water	03:17
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
Glamorcult	Who Am I	Atlantis Under the Sea	04:10
Austra	Shoot the Water	Feel it Break	03:22
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:19
Bündock	Pris par le temps	Société Anonyme	03:23
Spoons	In the Hands of Money	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:43
Breeding Ground	Underground	Wintergarden (EP)	04:31
Glamorcult	Afterglow	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:46
I Braineater	Just a Boy	I Here, Where You	02:52
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Now They've Landed (Harmonics)	Space and Time	05:01
The Modern Minds	Slap in the Face	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
Instructions	D-6	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:32
Braineaters	Wrong World	Planet X	02:35
Glamorcult	Would It Be Over	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:28
ACTORS	Let it Grow	It Will Come to You	02:58
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	On the Line	ST	04:09
Age of Mirrors	She Says Hello	Mirage	04:02
Moral Lepers	Beryl Bean	Turn to Stone	02:41
Family Plot	Tic Tac	Convictions	04:08
Glamorcult	The Encore	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:04
ACTORS	Left On Read	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:20
Blueprints	Down On My Sublife	Stare 01	04:06
Darkroom	Some Stories Never Change	San Paku	05:24
Glamorcult	The Light We Will Hold	A Price To Paris	04:23
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Mr. X)	Strange Pleasures EP	04:54
39 Steps	Priscilla	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:32
Kaméléon	Un p'tit coup	ST	04:03
Térapi	Rock'a'tchooka	Primale	03:16
S.Q	Alone at Night	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:10
State Of Mind	I'll Be Yours	I'll Be Yours b/w The Dark Side (picture sleeve)	03:29
Vis-A-Vis	Prison of Eyes	Heart and Soul	04:50
True Confessions	Don't Go to Work on Me	ST	02:11
Palace at 4 a.m.	Untamed World	Untamed World	03:52
Mannequin Depressives	I Don't Get You	Girls Are Evil	04:31
The Government	Flat Tire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	02:25
Erect	The Tube	Consequence of Life	04:33
Fictions	Do it With the Lights On	ST	03:07
Rational Youth	Close to Nature	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:43
Utopiate	Actions or Misguidance	You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance	03:06
Living End	Death at an Early Age	Death at an Early Age b/w Magic Carpet Ride	03:12
BB Gabor	Hunger, Poverty and Misery	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	03:50
The Chemicals	Out of My Mind	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	03:11
Compilation	Don Bregg - Hypnotized	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:27
Absolute 9	Love and Work	Love and Work b/w Fence	03:48
The Vox	Mary-Go-Round	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	03:29
I Braineater	Sacred Cow	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:03
45's	Say You'll Be Mine	On the Beach	03:15
Spoons	For Tran	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:45
Blue Peter	Cloak and Dagger	Test Patterns For Living	03:45
Tenants	Connect the Dots	ST	04:04

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Glamorcult - Early Glamour

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Glamorcult - Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994

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Glamorcult - The Stone Sessions

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Glamorcult - Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)

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Glamorcult - Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude

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Glamorcult - Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)

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CosmaNat - Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)

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Channel 5 - ST (EP)

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ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever

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ACTORS - Part Time Punks Session EP

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