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
Awake The Echoes	Always Something Wrong	Normal Life	03:59
Bumpers	I Watch You Go	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:34
Moral Lepers	Music is Your Body	Turn to Stone	02:45
Insex	Play or Die	One (EP)	02:14
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Family Plot	Gravedigger	Convictions	02:19
Moev	90 Minutes	Zimmerkampf	05:15
John Young Paul	Surrender to the Void	The Life of Ermie Scub	04:05
Melinite	Waiting 4-U	Push The Button And Run!	01:48
Modern Minds	Girl Crazy	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:22
Hypno-Gogo	Flashing	In Your Eyes b/w Flashing	04:49
Electric Mocean	Motion	Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)	04:03
Corsage	Jackson	ST	03:41
B-Sides	No Can Do	Red to Black	03:00
Broken Tables	The Ruins	ST	05:50
Bobby and Synthia	Queen Street	thirty-six hours (EP)	04:56
Welcome Home	Top of the World	In This Life b/w Top of the World (picture sleeve)	04:02
Cottage Industry	The Urge to Merge	The Winter's Tale	04:33
Government	Paranoid Downtown Funk Pt. 2	How Many Fingers?	02:32
Psyche	The Dark Pool	The Influence	04:54
Wrestlers	When You Sleep Together	ST	03:42
Drastic Measures	See My House	ST	02:46
Bündock	El Salvador (The Beat of)	Société Anonyme	04:30
Eight Seconds	Wings	Almacantar	04:46
Red Herring	Love Machine	Taste Tests	03:32
Moev	M.T. M.T. N.M.E.	Zimmerkampf	05:15
Edsells	She Escaped	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	04:22
Bangkok	Planet of My Own	Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own	03:04
Drastic Measures	Romanticon	ST	02:42
A Day in Paris	Goodbye	Prey	03:24
Erect	We Are Police	Consequence of Life	02:14
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News	Midnite News	07:10
Degrees of Freedom	August is an Angel	China	04:27
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Mr. X)	Strange Pleasures EP	04:54
Villains	Go Crazy	Go Crazy	03:17
John Young Paul	The Boulevards of Hope	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:37
The Patterns	Afraid to Touch	Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen	03:57
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News II	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:36
Spoons	Radio Heaven	Bridges Over Borders	03:57
Null Set	Etude for Triggered Wah	New Job (EP)	05:02
True Confessions	4th Base	ST	02:46
Mettle	Emotional Desert	ST	05:17
I Braineater	Gastly Dance	I Here, Where You	01:26
Entrance System	Minimal Spirits	Imperfect Image	03:24
Decade of Dreams	A Conversation With Myself	Wild Colloquial	03:32
Tin Twist	Stupid Cars	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	01:37
Extras	Sentimental Fool	The Road to Zambando	03:53
Home Grown	Up the Wall	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:45
Dancespeak	Heart of My Song	Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)	03:49
Glamorcult	This Is Our Story	The Stone Sessions	03:44
Moral Support	Chasing Rainbows	Insanity	04:20
Psyche	Children Carry Knives	Insomnia Theatre	04:46
Boys Brigade	Melody	ST	04:00
Living End (1)	In Your Dreams	ST	02:48
State Of Mind	I'll Be Yours	I'll Be Yours b/w The Dark Side (picture sleeve)	03:29
Pukka Orchestra	Power Cut	ST	05:13
Martha And The Muffins	Swimming	This Is The Ice Age	03:54
Diodes	Tired Of Waking Up Tired (original demo 1978)	Rarities	03:29
Martha And The Muffins	Primal Weekend	Trance and Dance	05:14
Térapi	Breadus Fongus	Primale	02:51
Images In Vogue	Promised Land	In The House	06:03
4th Floor	Black and White	Black & White b/w Follow in Stride	04:37
Novels	I'm Being Followed	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	03:02
B-Sides	She's a Raver	Red to Black	02:36
Psyche	Wink of an Eye	Insomnia Theatre	05:37
Fictions	Shuffle	ST	02:39
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Hygiene Club	Pantechnicon - for Gary	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	01:15
Strange Advance	Automatic Sighs	Worlds Away	04:41
Figures At Dawn	In from the Cold	ST	03:54
Living End (1)	Time is Unkind	ST	03:11
Within Gothic Towers	Fanfare To Flight	Within Gothic Towers	04:48
Psyche	You're the Only One	Mystery Hotel	03:28
Scissors	Don't Call Me Chick	ST	02:17
Modernes Pickles	Colors	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:18
Melinite	Seasoning	Push The Button And Run!	01:23
Interpol	When Rock 'n' Roll Was in the Hole	ST	02:26
Scenics	New Part in Town	New Part In Town	03:31
Extras	No Generation	Bit Parts	02:33
Scenics	Bubbles	Underneath the Door	02:26
Andrew Matheson	It Only Hurts When I Cry	Monterey Shoes	03:25
Vital Sines	Sorry	Big Dark Dreams	04:32
UJ3RK5	Naum Gabo	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:18
Tenants	Let 'Em Go	Visions of Our Future	04:28
The Play	Atlantic City	Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City	03:30
Start	Gotta Have Love	Hey You	04:49
Moev	Ophelia	Dusk and Desire	03:59
Faded Films	East of the Asylum	Faded Years	04:46
Spoons	On the Beach	Bridges Over Borders	03:48
True Confessions	Smokey's Gonna Twist	ST	02:25
Glamorcult	Fusion (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:23
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	The Swimmer	ST	02:30
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin' to Glide	Are Here	05:43
Null Set	Teats de Nuit	New Job (EP)	02:51
John Young Paul	Have You Seen the Boy in the Gutter with the Broken Mind?	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:10
Diodes	Polaroid	Action-Reaction	02:37
Voice	Business as Usual in Beirut	Anno Di Voce	04:27
S.Q	Alone at Night	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:10
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News Finale	Ohama aka The White Album	05:46
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama aka The White Album	02:44

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Awake The Echoes - Normal Life

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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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No Comment - Wondering b/w Honesty

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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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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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Bonus Boys - Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time

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Cry - ST

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Friendly Fire - Junior Senility EP

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Second Thoughts - Integrity b/w Wound Up

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Regulators - What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)

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