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
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Space and Time	05:20
ACTORS	L'appel du vide	It Will Come to You	03:34
Drastic Measures	T.N.T.	ST	03:51
Glamorcult	All Those Lies	The Stone Sessions	03:25
Compilation	Vera & The Poor Boys - Chameleon Girl	The Circuit	03:10
The Scene (2)	Soul Spectrum	Only in Paradise	05:09
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Educated Man	03:54
Ceramic Hello	Conversation Between Units	The Absence of a Canary	00:30
Pukka Orchestra	Goldmine in the Sky	The Palace Of Memeory	03:58
Pale Blue	Ruin	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:25
NEO A4	One's Enough	ST	03:40
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Can't Find the Key	Music Industry Arts 1983	05:45
Minutes From Downtown	Wrapped in Velvet	ST	03:16
Cannon Heath Down	Light Your Eyes	Heart-Throb Companion	03:06
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Lindsay	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:11
Tin Twist	Sometimes It's Funny	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	03:38
Spoons	On the Beach	Bridges Over Borders	03:48
Rob Bryanton	Just a Shy Guy	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:29
Rob Bryanton	Who's Got a Hold of the Wheel?	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:56
UJ3RK5	Hands of Orlac	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:36
Numbers	Sunday Afternoon	Add Up	03:39
The Idles	Please Don't Call	The Idles Demo	02:44
Scott Matthews	Viewing Nonevents	Boats in Rivers	03:56
Modernes Pickles	Are You a Martian	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	04:03
Strange Advance	She Controls Me	Worlds Away	02:59
Mettle	Evening Ocean	ST	02:58
Extras	Jealous Girl	Bit Parts	03:31
The Diodes	City of the Dead	Action-Reaction	04:04
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Mushin No Shin	Midnite News	05:35
Braineaters	Closet Case	Planet X	01:26
Utopiate	Actions or Misguidance	You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance	03:06
Rarefaction	I Dreamt	Ordinary Man	04:18
Informer	I Know You Know	I Know You Know b/w Hold It	03:09
The Diodes	Parasite (1977 previously unreleased)	Rarities	03:17
Images In Vogue	Holiday (Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	04:16
ACTORS	Post Traumatic Love	Reanimated	03:20
Deserters	Protection	ST	03:20
Hush	Dancing in East Berlin	Replay	04:17
Lawn	Jet Pack	Peace in the Valley	05:41
NEO A4	Only a Fool	ST	03:52
I Braineater	Fade	I Here, Where You	03:35
The Diodes	Burn Down Your Daddy's House	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:16
Hunger Project	The Same Inside	Demo 1982	07:07
Drastic Measures	Flowers	ST	03:18
Start	Kids in the USA	Hey You	03:17
Images In Vogue	For Germans	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:39
NEO A4	Is She is She	ST	04:39
Glamorcult	Tropical Romance	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	04:21
Bunny & the Lakers	Weekend Guests	Numbers	01:57
This Fear	Soldier of This Fashion (Extended)	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:14
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Feelings	I Fear What I Might Hear	05:03
e	Dance With Me	The Levitation Syndrome	03:36
Corsage	Troubles	ST	04:57
Perfect World	Twist and Shove	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	03:18
Ross Angeles	She Knows	Salute	03:12
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
Decade of Dreams	The Bridge	Wild Colloquial	03:31
Blue Oil	Money	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:50
Glamorcult	Interlude	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:31
Scissors	Do You Like it?	ST	02:20
Corsage	Big Bang	ST	03:42
Hush	Highway of Love	Replay	03:31
Kings	My Habit	Are Here	03:41
Andrew Matheson	Tender is the Night	Monterey Shoes	05:51
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	A Giant Starfish	Ohama aka The White Album	04:11
Strange Advance	One Chance in a Million	Worlds Away	04:12
Tulpa	Mystical Dreams	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	03:36
NEO A4	In My Life	The Warmer Side of You	03:19
ACTORS	Stimulation	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:15
Moral Support	Strange Day for Dancing	Insanity	03:21
Rarefaction	Ordinary Man	Ordinary Man	04:17
Government	Flat Tire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	02:25
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	05:12
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Benjamin Russell	Want a World	Madman	02:13
Bündock	Silhouette	Société Anonyme	04:06
Velveteens	Tall House	Tall House (EP)	03:05
Benjamin Russell	Video Freak	Pop Modern(e)	04:17
Handful of Snowdrops	A New Light (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:19
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Modern Minds	Slap in the Face	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
Sex Church	Dull Light	Growing Over	03:42
Palace at 4 a.m.	White Guilt	White Guilt	04:34
B-Sides	Regular Guy	Red to Black	02:35
A Neon Rome	The Magical Summer Of ’85	A Neon Rome	03:17
Klō	Dreaming	Demo 1982	03:54
Tenants	What's In It For Me?	ST	02:43
True Confessions	He's a Liar	ST	03:16
Cardboard Brains	Ermie Has Feelers	Live At The Edge	05:36
DeMars	L'orgasme d'une planète	Les Télé-Têtes	02:48
Bumpers	Media Music	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:30
Rex Chainbelt	Rock a Rolla	Foreign Movie	01:40
State Of Mind	I'll Be Yours	I'll Be Yours b/w The Dark Side (picture sleeve)	03:29
BB Gabor	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry)	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	02:41
A Kid	Dirty Bedding	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:35
Numbers	Leave it to Me	Add Up	03:56
Vis-A-Vis	Prison of Eyes	Heart and Soul	04:50
B-Sides	She's a Raver (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	01:34
Living End (1)	Dislocation	ST	03:16

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Rob Bryanton - Alcohol And Other Drugs

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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The Keys - Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)

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Maja Bannerman - Songs by Maja Bannerman

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Blue Oil - Blue Oil (1981-83)

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Blue Oil - ST

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The Chemicals - Break Time

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The Chemicals - Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide

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Vex - DNA

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