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
Living End (1)	Naive	ST	02:25
Government	Greetings from the Gutter (Reprise)	Electric Eye	00:50
Decade of Dreams	A Conversation With Myself	Wild Colloquial	03:32
Martha And The Muffins	You Sold the Cottage	This Is The Ice Age	04:01
Oui	Turn of the Century	Oui	04:13
Hunger Project	Assembly	Demo 1982	04:48
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Hothouse	ST	04:32
Spoons	Young English Gentleman	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:35
Degrees of Freedom	August is an Angel	China	04:27
DeMars	Le rêveur egaré	Les Télé-Têtes	04:06
Images In Vogue	So Careful (Extended Mix)	So Careful (Extended Mix)	07:17
Benjamin Russell	Gentle Charms	Madman	01:48
Austra	Beat and the Pulse	Feel it Break	04:55
Strange Advance	Prisoner	Worlds Away	04:15
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News Finale	Ohama aka The White Album	05:46
Rarefaction	I Dreamt	Ordinary Man	04:18
Pointed Sticks	The Real Thing	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:31
Moral Lepers	Shadow	Turn to Stone	03:03
Maurice & The Clichés	Beautiful Girls	C'est la vie	03:49
Within Gothic Towers	I Will Lead You	Within Gothic Towers	04:58
Rarefaction	Ordinary Man	Ordinary Man	04:17
I Braineater	Future Now	I Here, Where You	03:08
Scenics	Mony Mony	Underneath the Door	02:52
Compilation	Dis Band - Hesitation (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:16
Tim Ray	Standard Walk (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:25
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Over Mountains	Ohama aka The White Album	03:14
Kaméléon	Napalm	ST	02:54
Wrestlers	When You Sleep Together	ST	03:42
Kaméléon	Rouge barbele	ST	04:54
NEO A4	Don't Believe	The Warmer Side of You	04:50
Age of Mirrors	Wave About Her	Mirage	04:33
Bündock	Season for Love	Société Anonyme	04:11
Modernes Pickles	Destination Martin	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:13
Handful of Snowdrops	Still We Live (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:37
Cannon Heath Down	Bone Of Contention	Heart-Throb Companion	03:34
Tau Ceti	Radiation	Radiation b/w Bathed in Dark Light	04:20
Rational Youth	The Man in Grey	ST (mini album)	03:19
Rob Bryanton	We Are All Chemicals	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:31
Extras	High-Tech Promises	The Road to Zambando	03:34
Psyche	Misery's Return	The Influence	04:57
Einstein	Fire of My Loins	Sex and Science	04:48
Rational Youth	In Your Eyes	Heredity	03:13
Spoons	Stop	Talkback	03:16
The Diodes	That Was The Way That It Was	Action-Reaction	03:46
Compilation	The Sharks - Get Off the Radio	No Pedestrians	03:00
Moev	Kim Says	Dusk and Desire	03:41
Null Set	Judgement Days	New Job (EP)	02:19
Golden Calgarians	Savage Love	Savage Love	04:16
Eight Seconds	Moving Day	Big Houses	03:45
Térapi	Rock'a'tchooka	Primale	03:16
Boys Brigade	Saigon	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:41
Within Gothic Towers	Will I Hope To Love	Within Gothic Towers	05:44
Family Plot	Dervish	Convictions	04:11
Popular Front (1)	September Reign	This is the Rubicon	03:12
Psyche	Salvation Stranger	The Influence	03:54
Bündock	Stand Still	Société Anonyme	02:45
Tower Bridge	Perfection	Perfection b/w Out of My Mind Girl (picture sleeve)	04:07
Tyro	A Little More Time	A Little More Time (EP)	02:11
Rave Revues	Nightmares	Voices	03:36
Images In Vogue	Anxiety Reaction	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:00
UJ3RK5	The Anglican	ST (EP)	03:53
John Young Paul	Ermie has Feelers	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:25
Tame & Talking	Conditioned Manaid	ST	04:01
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Timeless Thoughts (To the Stars)	Space and Time	04:54
Calling Rain	Cross	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	05:21
Government	I Don't Really Care	Electric Eye	04:04
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	So Far	04:14
Mettle	Emotional Desert	ST	05:17
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:02
Oui	Circle of Love	Oui	04:20
Rational Youth	Heredity	Heredity	04:18
Moev	90 Minutes	Zimmerkampf	05:15
Inner Sanction	Runaway	Dancematic-Automatic	03:07
Carbon Unit	The Martian Hop	The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)	03:48
Spoons	Spaces	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:12
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Hot Tip	Hard to be Me	Stop All Motion	03:50
Avril Chown	American Boys	American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight	03:04
The Front	Robbery	Underworld	04:21
Compilation	Tyranna - Back Off Baby	No Pedestrians	02:26
Braineaters	Closet Case	Planet X	01:26
Ross Angeles	Empty Amour	Salute	03:19
Darkroom	In Dim light	San Paku	03:34
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Faded Films	Faded Years	Faded Years	04:11
Glamorcult	Hope For Change To Come	Shadows From The Past	03:42
Tim Ray	Preamble - One Last Look (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	06:21
Einstein	Body & Mind	Sex and Science	03:49
The Front	Underworld	Underworld	03:59
I Braineater	Frosted Lips	I Here, Where You	03:28
Jon Mullane	Open Up to Me	Following Yesterday	03:58
UJ3RK5	Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	06:32
A Neon Rome	Cums A Wolf	A Neon Rome	04:15
Modernes Pickles	Diamond Nite	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:51
Scenics	Tokyo	New Part In Town	04:07
Odd Man Out	World of My Own	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	03:35
45's	She's In Love	On the Beach	03:27
The Front	The Moon Is a Stranger	Underworld	03:12
Bobby and Synthia	Chant #2	thirty-six hours (EP)	04:00
Modernettes	The Rebel Kind	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:08

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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