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
Martha And The Muffins	Was Ezo	Trance and Dance	03:58
Spoons	Sooner or Later	Vertigo Tango	03:44
Eight Seconds	Happy Endings	Big Houses	03:46
Age of Mirrors	The Day the Earth Stands Still - Breathless	Mirage	05:44
Rave Revues	Self Inflicted Wounds	Voices	03:06
Handful of Snowdrops	Chemical Engineering (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:22
Hunger Project	Assembly	The Same Inside b/w Assembly	07:06
Martha And The Muffins	Cheesies and Gum	Metro Music	03:09
Benjamin Russell	Angel of Mercy	Madman	02:45
Escalators	Double Talk	ST	05:17
Faded Films	The Top	Faded Years	02:43
Ear Candy	Part of Me	Self Defence	04:34
Hunger Project	Poland	Demo 1982	05:40
Pukka Orchestra	Might as Well be on Mars	ST	05:05
Drama	Anna King	Loneliness	03:04
Rex Chainbelt	Foreign Movie	Foreign Movie	02:42
Thieves	Color	I See Red	04:09
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Don't Be Afraid	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	04:30
Moev	90 Minutes	Zimmerkampf	05:15
Modernes Pickles	Love Me	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:01
Corsage	Down at the Rock	ST	03:26
Benjamin Russell	Baby, This Is Love	Madman	02:04
Glamorcult	Fusion (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:23
ACTORS	Post Traumatic Love (Felix Bondarev Remix)	Reanimated	04:08
Roland Blinn	Tense	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	02:27
Shanghai Lil	Flower And a Bee	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:28
Moral Support	Chasing Rainbows	Insanity	04:20
CosmaNat	Camping Song	Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)	02:17
Spoons	Clever	Bridges Over Borders	03:39
Blue Oil	Twenty Years	ST	03:41
Martha And The Muffins	Whatever Happened to Radio Valve Road?	Danseparc	03:00
Frigidaires	Three Cool Cats	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:12
Psyche	The Brain Collapses	Insomnia Theatre	04:09
Rolf Kempf	Bye Bye Baby	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:36
NEO A4	Rescue Me	ST	03:59
Handful of Snowdrops	Immortals (1985)	Mort en direct	08:24
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Robots in the Cellar	Space and Time	04:06
Rob Bryanton	Everybody Feels Some Pain	Alcohol And Other Drugs	04:45
Aircuts	Radioactivity	Radioactivity b/w Sheila	02:57
John Young Paul	Our Time Escapes	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:09
ACTORS	Bird in Hand	It Will Come to You	03:06
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	So Far	04:04
Eight Seconds	Beyond the Shock	Big Houses	05:34
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Shadow Love	Space and Time	04:38
FM109	S.O.S.	ST	03:54
Benjamin Russell	Pop Modern(e)	Pop Modern(e)	03:51
Psyche	Unveiling the Secret	Unveiling The Secret	07:03
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	And Without a Word	Midway b/w Thin Lines	04:07
Punkin Machine	Zarcon Rock On	Zarcon Rock On // Zarcon Rock On	03:40
True Confessions	Yes it's True	ST	03:03
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Hothouse	ST	04:32
Modernes Pickles	Deathrace 2000	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:44
Lou Champagne System	Silent Walking	No Visible Means	06:56
Rave Revues	Faces	Voices	03:41
Modernes Pickles	Diamond Nite	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:51
I Braineater	I Am	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:07
Modernes Pickles	Secret Life of Achmed	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:27
Tyro	Told You	A Little More Time (EP)	03:28
Glen Meadmore	Gotta Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:04
Philip Rambow	Don't Come (Cryin' To Me)	Jungle Law	03:37
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:41
Glamorcult	Dream Girl (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	03:43
The Front	News to You	Underworld	05:11
Class Info	Out of Line	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	04:04
Tenants	Schoolgirl	ST	02:47
Villains	Laugh it Out	Go Crazy	03:54
I Before E	Power of Reason	Power of Reason b/w Cocktails	02:23
Benjamin Russell	Broken-Hearted Lovers	Pop Modern(e)	02:43
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:50
B-Sides	She's a Raver	Red to Black	02:36
Modernes Pickles	Colors	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:18
Eight Seconds	Wings	Almacantar	04:46
Hunger Project	Assembly	Demo 1982	04:48
DeMars	Le zaratt express	Les Télé-Têtes	04:11
Norda	West Over Seas	West Over Seas	05:54
Vital Sines	Sorry	Big Dark Dreams	04:32
The Diodes	No Time to Cry (1981 Previously Unreleased) (CD only)	Rarities	03:43
Psyche	Taking Chances	Unveiling The Secret	04:38
Awake The Echoes	Someone	Normal Life	04:07
Breeding Ground	Thin Red Line	Wintergarden (EP)	04:22
Ceramic Hello	Geometry	The Absence of a Canary	07:25
39 Steps	Someday is Today [original]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:33
Extras	No Generation	Bit Parts	02:33
Cannon Heath Down	quagmire	Heart-Throb Companion	00:30
Awake The Echoes	You're More Trouble Than You' re Worth	Normal Life	03:58
Vis-A-Vis	I am the Night	Heart and Soul	03:40
Age of Mirrors	This Double Life	Screenplay	03:43
Drama	Got to Get off the Earth	Loneliness	03:06
Breeding Ground	Epic	Tales of Adventure (EP)	06:43
Rikki & The Rokkits	New Wave	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:10
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	03:56
Einstein	Mr. Science	Sex and Science	02:35
Big Dog	Monkey See, Monkey Do	99 Change Hands	01:52
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
UJ3RK5	Locator	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:04
Rave Revues	Living in the Shadows	Voices	04:07
Modern Minds	Wasted Lives	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	03:01
Boys Brigade	Into the Flow	ST	05:09
Salty Seamen	Star Train	In The Groove At Last	04:01
Billy Butt & The Brats	No I Can't Say No	Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No	02:47

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Glamorcult - A Price To Paris

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Glamorcult - Shadows From The Past

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Glamorcult - Early Glamour

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Glamorcult - Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994

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Glamorcult - The Stone Sessions

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Glamorcult - Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)

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Glamorcult - Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude

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Glamorcult - Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)

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CosmaNat - Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)

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Channel 5 - ST (EP)

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ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever

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ACTORS - Part Time Punks Session EP

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ACTORS - Slaves (FM Attack RMX)

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ACTORS - Mining for Heart

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ACTORS - Acts of Worship

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ACTORS - One Hundred Years

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ACTORS - It Will Come to You

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ACTORS - Reanimated

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Bleu Néon - Cité Promise

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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Maurice & The Clichés - ST

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Maurice & The Clichés - Veronika

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Maurice & The Clichés - Soft Core

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Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

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Minutes From Downtown - ST

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Joe Naylor - I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights

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Modernes Pickles - Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985

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Modernes Pickles - We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White

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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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