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
Faded Films	The Top	Faded Years	02:43
James Harcourt	Emotional Blackmail	Emotional Blackmail	02:21
John Young Paul	The Girl Spells Grief	The Life of Ermie Scub	01:38
Compilation	Don Bregg - Sounds So Nice	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:51
Psyche	You're the Only One	Mystery Hotel	03:28
Spoons	One in Ten Words	Arias & Symphonies	04:10
Tenants	I Love Romance	ST	03:55
Compilation	Winston Hancock & The Changes - Love at First Sight	The Circuit	02:36
Age of Mirrors	Juliet's Dancing	Mirage	04:49
Salty Seamen	In the Groove at Last	In The Groove At Last	02:35
Spoons	Red Light	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:44
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Drama	Come On Over	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	02:57
Hot Tip	Stop All Motion	Stop All Motion	04:34
Corsage	West Coast Highway (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:57
Austra	Spellwork	Feel it Break	05:09
Eight Seconds	Thorn in My Side	Big Houses	04:08
Friendly Fire	Complete Control	Junior Senility EP	03:12
Start	Gotta Have Love	Hey You	04:49
Glamorcult	Live For Today	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:38
Numbers	She's Got Everything	Add Up	02:38
Numbers	Get Away	Add Up	02:43
Breeding Ground	Tales of Adventure	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:14
Extras	Turning it Out	The Road to Zambando	04:24
NEO A4	Don't Believe	The Warmer Side of You	04:50
Motive	Don’t You Know	Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)	03:21
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Your Face	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:16
Modernettes	Femme Fatale	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:53
Wrestlers	Dance of the Drunk	ST	02:37
Tenants	What's In It For Me?	ST	02:43
Sex Church	Put Away	Growing Over	02:00
Austra	Hate Crime	Feel it Break	04:01
Kinetic Ideals	Fire	Reason (EP)	05:54
DeMars	Les zoos arborifères	Les Télé-Têtes	03:09
Benjamin Russell	Out of it Girl	Madman	01:37
K	A Thousand Years	Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)	04:13
Utopiate	Actions or Misguidance	You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance	03:06
Images In Vogue	Talking to Myself	In The House	03:44
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Upcoming Storm	Space and Time	03:38
100 Flowers	21st Guessing	21st Guessing	04:16
I Braineater	Edge	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:30
Austra	The Beast	Feel it Break	04:02
Tyro	Told You	A Little More Time (EP)	03:28
Emport	Heartaches	Heartaches b/w Picture Frame Love Affair	03:58
Hot Tip	Hard to be Me	Stop All Motion	03:50
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
Glamorcult	Dream Girl to Me	Early Glamour	03:28
Hot Tip	Eyes Are Blue	Stop All Motion	03:19
Darkroom	In Dim light	San Paku	03:34
Kaméléon	Un p'tit coup	ST	04:03
Compilation	Charles Kurt - The Silence Upstairs	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:11
Blueprints	Tribute to a Fool	Stare 01	03:50
Insex	One	One (EP)	04:47
Handful of Snowdrops	Messengers (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:18
Glamorcult	Session 2 (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	03:24
Erect	Human Beings	Consequence of Life	04:09
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:18
Secret Act	That Certain Feeling	My Neighbourhood	03:33
Philip Rambow	Love is a Hard Time	Jungle Law	04:19
A Neon Rome	Cums A Wolf	A Neon Rome	04:15
Volts	Can't Hold on Too Long	Plugged In	03:15
Moev	Remembrance Day	Zimmerkampf	05:23
Kaméléon	Les chats ballerines	ST	03:53
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Drama	Electronic Pink Panther	Loneliness	02:23
Drama	As I Breathe On The T.T.C.	Loneliness	04:04
Diodes	Mercenary Flight (1978 Alternate Version) (CD only)	Rarities	03:21
Rarefaction	Open Up Your Heart	Ordinary Man	04:12
Inner Sanction	White Boy Rap	Dancematic-Automatic	05:58
Ralph Mashats	Irradies	Irradies b/w Empty Eyes (Fly My Way) (picture sleeve)	03:54
Mama Quilla II	KKK	ST (EP)	05:40
Spoons	Don't Shoot the Messenger	Talkback	03:19
Handful of Snowdrops	Land of the Damned	Land of the Damned	08:37
Barking Boys	Blood Money	The Yes Girls	05:01
Absolute 9	We're Waiting	ST	02:40
Glamorcult	I Have Nothing To Say To You	The Stone Sessions	04:01
Extras	Stay Up All Night	Bit Parts	02:54
Diodes	Parasite (1977 previously unreleased)	Rarities	03:17
Cardboard Brains	Is That Why?	Live At The Edge	03:28
Images In Vogue	Save It	In The House	03:38
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heer Comes the Future	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:50
Eight Seconds	Where's Bula	Almacantar	04:38
Strange Advance	One Chance in a Million	Worlds Away	04:12
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Exit From a Dream	05:27
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	I Tie My Shoes	Midnite News	05:25
Glamorcult	Shadows From The Past (Part 2)	Shadows From The Past	03:19
B-Sides	Invasion of the Money Snatchers	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	03:19
Tenants	Connect the Dots	ST	04:04
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
Blue Peter	Out With the Boys	Test Patterns For Living	03:08
Drama	Got to Get off the Earth	Loneliness	03:06
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Can't Find the Key	Music Industry Arts 1983	05:45
e	Power Blackout	The Levitation Syndrome	02:39
Absolute 9	She Believes	ST	02:52
Lou Champagne System	Do Something	No Visible Means	04:34
Volts	Welcome	Plugged In	04:21
Lawn	Jet Pack	Peace in the Valley	05:41
Extras	Cult Kids	Bit Parts	03:07

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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