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
Drastic Measures	Hotsy Totsy - Postlude	ST	04:25
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Love in 3-D	Space and Time	03:36
Martha And The Muffins	Was Ezo	Trance and Dance	03:58
Kaméléon	Genocide genethliaque	ST	04:03
Blueprints	What You D-Serve	Stare 01	02:51
Martha And The Muffins	Luna Park	Trance and Dance	03:12
Streetcar Named Desire	Yesteryear	Life Begins	02:58
Popular Front (1)	Forty Days	This is the Rubicon	04:40
Velveteens	Tired of the Beat	Tall House (EP)	03:30
Compilation	Charles Kurt - The Silence Upstairs	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:11
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Open Window	Midnite News	03:33
Todd Stevens	This Way!	This Way! (picture sleeve)	03:20
Cardboard Brains	And So I Hide	Live At The Edge	03:46
DeMars	Les télé-têtes	Les Télé-Têtes	04:41
Glamatron	Factor 2-2-2	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:53
Diodes	Roses and Thorns	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:22
John Lutz T.	Street Corner Sally	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	03:06
Melinite	Another Attempt	Push The Button And Run!	02:27
Eight Seconds	Chopin's Heart	Big Houses	04:51
Direktive 17	Jericho	ST (EP)	03:58
Erect	The Colony	Consequence of Life	02:45
B-Sides	Underground Radio Stars (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:40
Salty Seamen	I'm Done	In The Groove At Last	03:50
Drama	Traffic	Loneliness	02:53
Vital Sines	Fear of the Cold	Big Dark Dreams	03:41
Braineaters	Wrong World	Planet X	02:35
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Sister H. Immaculata	Spunker	02:12
Salty Seamen	Club Hot de Paris	In The Groove At Last	02:03
Class Info	Out of Line	Inside	04:04
Calling Rain	Cross	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	05:21
Philip Rambow	Snakes And Ladders	Jungle Law	03:52
Bumpers	Media Music	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:30
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lola	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:08
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin' to Glide	Are Here	05:43
Glen Meadmore	Going to Town	Chicken & Biscuits	05:09
Pukka Orchestra	A Wonderful Time to be Young	ST	03:07
True Confessions	7-11 Heaven	ST	02:17
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:14
Design	No Turning Back (remix)	No Turning Back	03:55
Vital Sines	Hype	Collage	04:43
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Stop	Spunker	02:57
Secret Act	Fred Flinstone, Where Are You	My Neighbourhood	03:52
Images In Vogue	Lust for Love	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:18
BAMFF	The Uncanny	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:50
Extras	Don’t Put Me On Hold	The Road to Zambando	02:52
Doppler Bros.	Leaving Home	Totally Impractical	02:21
Cottage Industry	The Point on a Hill	The Winter's Tale	03:59
Extras	Jealous Girl	Bit Parts	03:31
Government	Zippers of Fire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:05
Degrees of Freedom	China	China	06:00
Kings	Anti Hero man	Are Here	03:26
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Drugs	Ohama aka The White Album	04:36
Psyche	Taking Chances	Unveiling The Secret	04:38
Eight Seconds	Picture	Big Houses	06:13
Glamorcult	Manhattan Sunrise	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:24
Chemicals	Out of My Mind	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	03:11
Darkroom	In Dim light	San Paku	03:34
Drama	As I Breathe On The T.T.C.	Loneliness	04:04
Moral Lepers	Shadow	Turn to Stone	03:03
Handful of Snowdrops	Counterclockwise (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:30
Glamorcult	S.O.S.	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:31
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:12
Spoons	On the Beach	Bridges Over Borders	03:48
Moev	Common House	Zimmerkampf	03:27
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Space and Time	05:20
Frost In June	Catch the Light	Catch The Light	03:58
Volts	Loneliness in the Air Age	Plugged In	02:43
Moral Support	Living With Passion	Insanity	03:35
John Bell and the Strange	Melissa	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	06:50
Glamorcult	Would It Be Over	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:28
Wrestlers	When You Sleep Together	ST	03:42
Age of Mirrors	Wave About Her	Mirage	04:33
Hygiene Club	Girls at the Bank	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	02:05
Toe Beat	Stranger	Stranger	03:42
Rex Chainbelt	Allies	Foreign Movie	03:47
Age of Mirrors	Juliet's Dancing	Mirage	04:49
Glamorcult	Session 2 (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	03:24
Extras	Zambando	The Road to Zambando	04:17
B-Sides	No Can Do	Red to Black	03:00
Tulpa	Mystical Dreams	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	03:36
Glamorcult	I Will Still Be There	The Stone Sessions	04:05
Darkroom	Some Stories Never Change	San Paku	05:24
Compilation	Julie Choquette - Dream in My Head	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:34
Rational Youth	Ring the Bells	Cold War Nightlife	05:13
Austra	Shoot the Water	Feel it Break	03:22
Preison's Shade	She Wants Me	Race Me Home (EP)	05:54
Cannon Heath Down	Light Your Eyes	Heart-Throb Companion	03:06
Glamorcult	Fusion (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:23
Absolute 9	We're Waiting	ST	02:40
Pierre Perpall	Da Da Da (Vocal)	Da Da Da	03:50
Braineaters	Modern Man Pt 2	Planet X	01:16
Ceramic Hello	The Disqued	The Absence of a Canary	03:54
Contradance	Professional Dads	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	03:40
Diodes	Heat or the Beat	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:38
Numbers	Sideways Elevator	Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it	03:09
Glamorcult	If Only You Knew	A Price To Paris	03:33
Blue Peter	Factory Living	Test Patterns For Living	02:50
Popular Front (1)	We One	This is the Rubicon	04:59
Joe Naylor	I'm Canadian Beer	I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights	02:23
Salty Seamen	Too Late to Worry Now	In The Groove At Last	03:52

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Beach Punks - She Got Body Talk

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Hush - Replay

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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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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