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
State Of Mind	The Dark Side	I'll Be Yours b/w The Dark Side (picture sleeve)	03:45
Scenics	This Day	New Part In Town	03:08
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Diodes	Curiousity Girl	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:52
Hygiene Club	Sea Monster	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	03:10
Friendly Fire	Beverly Blue	Junior Senility EP	03:52
Bumpers	Media Music	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:30
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	New Heroin	05:20
I Braineater	Sacred Cow	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:03
Spoons	Clever	Bridges Over Borders	03:39
Cannon Heath Down	ma-de-moi-selle	Heart-Throb Companion	03:15
A Neon Rome	Islam	A Neon Rome	10:18
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Gaslit Squares	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:56
Entrance System	Tower Talk	Imperfect Image	05:53
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	04:44
Spoons	No Electrons	Arias & Symphonies	05:12
Strange Advance	Kiss in the Dark	Worlds Away	03:56
Bumpers	Ian	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	03:26
Fictions	Snob Appeal	ST	03:53
Corsage	Baby Said	ST	03:37
Perfect World	Have a Good Look	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	05:10
Age of Mirrors	Juliet's Dancing	Mirage	04:49
Breeding Ground	This Time Tomorrow	Tales of Adventure (EP)	04:01
Calling Rain	Laid in Ruins	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	04:45
Scenics	In the Summer	Underneath the Door	03:53
Glamatron	Continentals	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	04:44
Extras	High-Tech Promises	The Road to Zambando	03:34
Martha And The Muffins	Motorbikin'	Trance and Dance	02:58
Low Fun	The New Dictator	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	05:01
Teasers	Love Me Like You Did Last Night	Love Me Like You Did Last Night b/w I Love You	02:53
Electric Mocean	Motion	Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)	04:03
The Presence	Blown Away	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	02:15
Living End (1)	Steal a Smile	ST	03:20
Handful of Snowdrops	Now, Then and Forever (Bonus Track)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:06
Darkroom	Don't Talk	San Paku	03:32
Absolute 9	We're Waiting	ST	02:40
Benjamin Russell	Baby, This Is Love	Madman	02:04
Rave Revues	Play in Your Grave	Voices	04:31
Reactors	Alien Radio	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:22
K	A Thousand Years	Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)	04:13
Melinite	Trouble in Section 17	Push The Button And Run!	01:46
Glamorcult	As I Breathe on The TTC	Shadows From The Past	03:58
Diodes	Strange Time	Action-Reaction	02:53
Handful of Snowdrops	Scream Cry or Fall	Land of the Damned	05:06
Kinetic Ideals	Windchimes	Touch Me (Now)	13:46
Lawn	As Yet	Peace in the Valley	02:58
Timothy Chipman	Old Shoes, New Dreams	Ghost Parade	01:33
Glamorcult	Hope For Change To Come	Shadows From The Past	03:42
Faded Films	The Top	Faded Years	02:43
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't Look Now	Spunker	03:44
DeMars	Out of Sight	Songs From Between The Walls	05:25
Klō	Break the Floor	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	03:34
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Fast Mix)	Strange Pleasures EP	09:34
Glamorcult	I Have Nothing To Say To You	The Stone Sessions	04:01
Vital Sines	Sex & Babies	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:40
The Front	Your Street	Underworld	04:10
Handful of Snowdrops	When Comes Daylight	Land of the Damned	05:01
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Blueprints	What You D-Serve	Stare 01	02:51
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Man Who Never Sleeps	Untamed World	04:10
Spoons	One in Ten Words	Arias & Symphonies	04:10
Moral Support	Hold On to Time	Insanity	04:40
Kings	Run Shoes Running	Are Here	02:34
Jon Mullane	Destiny	Following Yesterday	04:45
Rarefaction	Ordinary Man	Ordinary Man	04:17
Golden Calgarians	My Big Truck	Savage Love	03:25
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush (Bonus Track - 1991 unreleased remix)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:27
Land of Giants	Security Squad	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
B-Sides	Underground Radio Stars (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	01:59
Bündock	Silhouette	Société Anonyme	04:06
Extras	Everytime I See Your Face	Bit Parts	02:33
Rational Youth	Heredity	Heredity	04:18
Ceramic Hello	Staticarnival	The Absence of a Canary	01:18
UJ3RK5	Booty Dread	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	02:49
Blueprints	I Fell Down	Stare 01	03:35
One Hand Clapping	Angry Weather	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	04:23
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:04
e	The Fall	The Levitation Syndrome	03:15
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:19
Barking Boys	Blood Money	The Yes Girls	05:01
Salty Seamen	Sweet Yolanda	In The Groove At Last	03:30
Darkroom	Pressure	San Paku	04:09
Barking Boys	Open City	The Yes Girls	04:07
I Braineater	Just a Boy	I Here, Where You	02:52
Psyche	Caught in the Act	Unveiling The Secret	05:42
Nowhere	No More	No More b/w Living	04:56
Andrew Matheson	St. Catherines Wheel	Monterey Shoes	05:37
Compilation	The Secrets - All the Words	No Pedestrians	02:52
Degrees of Freedom	In This Room	China	03:41
Compilation	Jenerentola - Lagata (Jenerentola)	Strange Pleasures EP	06:32
Vital Sines	New Heroes	Big Dark Dreams	04:55
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Talkin' About Her	Spunker	03:07
Pukka Orchestra	This Sordid Thing Called Love	The Palace Of Memeory	04:17
Deserters	Americans	ST	03:03
Benjamin Russell	Dreaming Girl	Madman	02:24
Decade of Dreams	Stop This Car	Wild Colloquial	02:12
Mettle	The Second Person	ST	03:47
Images In Vogue	Grapevine	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:20
B-Sides	No Can Do	Red to Black	03:00

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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