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
Inner Sanction	Mystery & Harmony	Shake Up - Fly Down	04:41
ACTORS	Bury Me	It Will Come to You	03:28
Bora Bora	Fashion Passion	Fashion Passion b/w Starting Over	03:47
Austra	The Future	Feel it Break	04:02
Pukka Orchestra	This Sordid Thing Called Love	The Palace Of Memeory	04:17
39 Steps	American Woman	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:11
Klō	No Money	No Money b/w The Parking Lot Song	02:38
Spoons	Repeatable	New Day New World	03:54
Glen Meadmore	Girlene	Chicken & Biscuits	05:07
Modernes Pickles	Blue Baby Baby White	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	01:50
A Neon Rome	Bsus5	A Neon Rome	08:25
Andrew Matheson	My Girls (Pin-Up Parade)	Monterey Shoes	03:52
Drastic Measures	The Teddy Bear's Picnic	ST	02:21
Steve Blimkie (and the Reason)	I Got This Feeling	Blimkie	02:13
Blue Peter	Time and Money	Test Patterns For Living	02:07
Pukka Orchestra	Cherry Beach Express	ST	03:07
Family Plot	Swagger	Convictions	03:12
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Robots in the Cellar	Space and Time	04:06
Corsage	Jackson	ST	03:41
A Neon Rome	The Prayer	New Heroin	06:01
A Kid	Dirty Bedding	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:35
Land of Giants	Fountains in the Rain	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:30
Spoons	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:00
Ralph Mashats	Empty Eyes (Fly My Way)	Irradies b/w Empty Eyes (Fly My Way) (picture sleeve)	05:05
ACTORS	I'm Not Here	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:32
Start	Just Another Girl	Hey You	04:57
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	T.V.	Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.	04:33
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Killer Punk	Space and Time	02:42
Calling Rain	Cross	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	05:21
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Errands For Eros	Spunker	04:09
Tau Ceti	Radiation	Radiation b/w Bathed in Dark Light	04:20
Compilation	Colin Davison - Love's Gone	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Volts	Can't Hold on Too Long	Plugged In	03:15
Rob Bryanton	Just a Shy Guy	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:29
Land of Giants	Key to Your Heart	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	02:50
Degrees of Freedom	China	China	06:00
Kinetic Ideals	Structures	Reason (EP)	04:47
Golden Calgarians	Galaxina	Savage Love	03:06
Modernes Pickles	I Left my Heart in Charlesbourg	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	05:20
Ear Candy	Part of Me	Self Defence	04:34
Vital Sines	Ice Statue	Collage	04:41
The Modern Minds	The Mess	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:09
Salty Seamen	Club Hot de Paris	In The Groove At Last	02:03
Land of Giants	Security Squad	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
Bangkok	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own	02:13
B-Sides	Late at Night	Red to Black	03:28
Psyche	Misery	The Influence	04:06
Cardboard Brains	Ermie Has Feelers	Live At The Edge	05:36
Martha And The Muffins	Whatever Happened to Radio Valve Road?	Danseparc	03:00
Moev	Common House	Zimmerkampf	03:27
Eight Seconds	Thorn in My Side	Big Houses	04:08
Two Men Laughing	Dancing in Moscow	Imprisoned Lorri b/w Dancing in Moscow (picture sleeve)	02:53
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:30
Strange Advance	Sister Radio	Worlds Away	05:20
Moral Lepers	Beryl Bean	Turn to Stone	02:41
Dis Band	I'm Tired	Gone Dead Out	03:21
Benjamin Russell	Video Freak	Pop Modern(e)	04:17
Philip Rambow	Jessica	Jungle Law	04:00
Boys Brigade	Saigon	Mannequin Demo	05:02
Eight Seconds	Beyond the Shock	Big Houses	05:34
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cité phosphoree b/w Le meilleur des mondes	02:59
Doppler Bros.	Big Time Tragedy	Totally Impractical	03:36
Modernes Pickles	Garbage	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:04
The Diodes	Polaroid	Action-Reaction	02:37
Cardboard Brains	Summertime!	Live At The Edge	03:31
Theo Vandenhoff	Evening Star	In The Throes Of Love	03:44
Pukka Orchestra	Flies (as Big as Your Fist)	ST	03:13
Melinite	My Anna of Discretion	Push The Button And Run!	02:36
Men Without Hats	Ideas for Walls	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:27
Minutes From Downtown	Emotion Under Pressure	Minutes From Downtown '82	04:14
The Diodes	Time Damage (Sept. 1977 Toronto Sound Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	02:18
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Body of Vagrant Waves	I Fear What I Might Hear	08:36
Vital Sines	Hype	Collage	04:43
Corsage	Victory Square	ST	04:16
Golden Calgarians	My Big Truck	Savage Love	03:25
Maurice & The Clichés	Mixed Emotions	ST	03:53
Theo Vandenhoff	Rosetta	Collected EPs	05:25
Instructions	The Factory	ST	03:41
Glamorcult	Live For Today	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:38
Tenants	Sheriff	ST	03:52
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
UJ3RK5	The Anglican	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	05:19
Bonus Boys	Wasting Our Time	Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time	03:16
UJ3RK5	The Anglican	ST (EP)	03:53
Odd Man Out	World of My Own	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	03:35
Glamorcult	Forever Strangers	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	03:37
Annabelle's Room	Classical Rage	ST	03:30
The Keys	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)	03:16
Class Info	Out of Line	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	04:04
The Front	Can't Get Started	Gina's at a Party	04:18
B-Sides	B-Side Shuffle	Red to Black	02:25
Philip Rambow	Jungle Law	Jungle Law	03:15
Rex Chainbelt	Fighter Plane	Foreign Movie	02:14
Reasons	Playing With Your Heart	Reasonable Rock (EP)	03:53
Philip Rambow	Creature Comforts	Jungle Law	02:28
The Play	Running Out of Time	Running Out of Time b/w Whatever it Takes	03:15
John Young Paul	Angels With Dirty Faces	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:33
Oui	Turn of the Century	Oui	04:13
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Glass Apple Bonzai - Love & Hatred in MegaWave City

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Eight Seconds - Big Houses

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Eight Seconds - Almacantar

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Theo Vandenhoff - Saviour on the Spilled Blood

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Theo Vandenhoff - In The Throes Of Love

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Theo Vandenhoff - Heartache Is An Empty Room

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Theo Vandenhoff - Alles Ist Besser

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Theo Vandenhoff - Collected EPs

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Theo Vandenhoff - Tenement

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Sound FX - Sound FX

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Sandro Durante - Don't Go (Breaking My Heart) b/w All That Magic

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Hypno-Gogo - In Your Eyes b/w Flashing

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Mad Shadows - Music in the Night

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The Modern Minds - Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Space Invaders - ST (EP)

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Dis Band - Gone Dead Out

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Compilation - Saskatoon Rocks

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The Government - How Many Fingers?

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The Government - Electric Eye

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The Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

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Bumpers - EP

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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Ross Angeles - Salute

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - You Can´t Hold Me Anymore b/w Freaks On the Tube

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - Blimkie

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Drama - Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)

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Drama - Loneliness

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Glamorcult - Atlantis Under the Sea

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Glamorcult - A Price To Paris

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