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
Oui	Pulling Me Closer	Oui	03:45
Government	I'm Somebody	Electric Eye	01:36
Second Thoughts	Wound Up	Integrity b/w Wound Up	02:50
Quasi Hands	Lovelife	ST	03:01
Interpol	Ursula (At Warsaw International)	ST	06:35
Hush	Now Reality	Replay	04:41
Age of Mirrors	She Says Hello	Mirage	04:02
Philip Rambow	Beyond the Naked & the Dead	Jungle Law	03:11
Rex Chainbelt	Allies	Foreign Movie	03:47
Living End (1)	The Procession	ST	04:40
Tau Ceti	Radiation	Radiation b/w Bathed in Dark Light	04:20
Absolute 9	Love and Work	ST	03:50
Tin Twist	Stupid Cars	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	01:37
Electric Mocean	Motion	Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)	04:03
UJ3RK5	Hands of Orlac	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:36
A Day in Paris	Child's Cry	Prey	03:45
Generra	Don’t Cut Me	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	03:57
The Presence	Mechanoid	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	03:55
Blue Peter	Same Old Place	Test Patterns For Living	03:12
Modern Minds	All Day & All of the Night	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:18
Tenants	How Do You Sleep at Night?	ST	04:34
Start	Gotta Have Love	Hey You	04:49
Braineaters	Wrong World	Planet X	02:35
NEO A4	Understand	ST	04:01
Paperboys (1)	Saturday 12 Midnight	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	03:33
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Talking About	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:06
Scenics	O Charlotte	New Part In Town	03:44
Images In Vogue	Travel	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	05:34
Psyche	Maggots	Insomnia Theatre	04:27
Images In Vogue	Save It	In The House	03:38
Rational Youth	Coboloid Race	I Want to See the Light	05:14
Diodes	Catwalker	Action-Reaction	03:29
Quasi Hands	Oil Barons	ST	03:49
Low Fun	Words We Left Behind	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	03:41
Spice	Just a Little Bit	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	02:17
Figures At Dawn	Falling	ST	03:24
B-Sides	Much Too Serious	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	02:44
Bündock	Cowboy	Société Anonyme	03:46
Diodes	Nowhere Fast (Aug 1977 Crash 'N' Burn Demo)	Rarities	02:50
Figures At Dawn	Sons of the Century	ST	04:36
Glamorcult	Lost Souls In Time	The Stone Sessions	03:40
Psyche	The Influence	The Influence	04:17
Benjamin Russell	Power of Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:37
Bicycle Thieves	First Aid to the Injured	ST	03:35
Eight Seconds	Chopin's Heart	Big Houses	04:51
Eight Seconds	Happy Endings	Big Houses	03:46
Benjamin Russell	Teresa	Madman	04:15
Rave Revues	Everyone’s a Critic	Voices	06:45
Government	How Many Fingers?	How Many Fingers?	07:21
Channel Five	So Good to Me	ST (EP)	03:17
Living End (1)	Better Pictures	ST	02:53
Todd Stevens	Stranger on the Run	This Way! (picture sleeve)	03:26
The Edge	Play the Game	Release the Circle	04:07
DeMars	Even for All Those Years	Stories from between the Walls	04:39
Images In Vogue	In the House (Single Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	03:14
Absolute 9	Fence	Love and Work b/w Fence	03:00
Diodes	Hot Sands	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:32
Vital Sines	Hype	Collage	04:43
Numbers	Won't You Call	Add Up	03:11
Darkroom	Some Stories Never Change	San Paku	05:24
Psyche	Taking Chances	Unveiling The Secret	04:38
Fictions	Praying for the World	ST	03:06
Breeding Ground	Cerememony of Love	Obscurity And Flair	04:43
Lou Champagne System	Do Something	No Visible Means	04:34
Friendly Fire	Complete Control	Junior Senility EP	03:12
Rex Chainbelt	Cherry Beach	Foreign Movie	02:55
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Call	Ohama aka The White Album	05:37
Scissors	Wrecked My Car	ST	02:16
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	ST (mini album)	05:27
Handful of Snowdrops	White Dominoes (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:11
Drama	As I Breathe On The T.T.C.	Loneliness	04:04
Tenants	You Don't Know What I've Been Thru	ST	03:40
Instructions	Ha - Ha Ha	ST	04:29
I Braineater	Future Now	I Here, Where You	03:08
Blue Peter	Do the Robot	Test Patterns For Living	03:25
Awake The Echoes	Love For Life	Normal Life	03:31
Corsage	Jackson	ST	03:41
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Odd Man Out	World of My Own	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	03:35
Compilation	Instructions - D-6	The Circuit	05:14
Images In Vogue	Masks	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:56
Chemicals	Out of My Mind	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	03:11
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Voices Like Thunder	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	04:00
Drama	God Is a Machine	Loneliness	02:27
Kinetic Ideals	Structures	Reason (EP)	04:47
Kaméléon	Insomnuit	ST	04:26
Rational Youth	Freeze	Heredity	05:00
Living End (1)	Anaesthesia Grin	ST	03:29
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Body of Vagrant Waves	I Fear What I Might Hear	08:36
Scenics	I'm Hurt	Underneath the Door	02:02
Extras	Turning it Out	The Road to Zambando	04:24
UJ3RK5	The Anglican	ST (EP)	03:53
Spoons	Camera Shy	Talkback	04:07
Rex Chainbelt	Run Away	Foreign Movie	02:43
Extras	One Last Time	Bit Parts	03:45
Palace at 4 a.m.	I Go Hungry	Untamed World	03:43
The Play	Line of Fire	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:45
Deserters	Present Life	ST	03:21
A Neon Rome	Islam	New Heroin	10:18
Ohm & the Secret Sources	City of the Shadow	Space and Time	03:57

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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The Scene (2) - Only in Paradise

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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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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