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
Dada	If I'm Blind	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:46
Glamorcult	Tropical Romance (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	03:51
The Presence	Blown Away	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	02:15
I Braineater	Future Now	I Here, Where You	03:08
Rational Youth	In Your Eyes	ST (mini album)	02:46
A Neon Rome	The Magical Summer Of ’85	A Neon Rome	03:17
Térapi	Rock'a'tchooka	Primale	03:16
Glamorcult	Would It Be Over	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:28
Martha And The Muffins	Indecision	Metro Music	04:23
Modernes Pickles	Cactus Cowboy	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:23
DeMars	Le fou sur l'île	Les Télé-Têtes	04:04
A Day in Paris	déjà vu	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:59
Scott Matthews	Navigation	Boats in Rivers	03:33
A Kid	Come	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:35
BAMFF	Mini Crisis	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:35
Lawn	Shady Street	Peace in the Valley	03:59
Magic Dragon	Objet Du Desire	Emotional Landscape	05:34
Erect	There Goes My Baby	Consequence of Life	03:45
Scenics	Walk in the Desert	Underneath the Door	01:32
Rex Chainbelt	Run Away	Foreign Movie	02:43
Glamorcult	I Have Nothing To Say To You	The Stone Sessions	04:01
Golden Calgarians	Vladivostok Rock	Savage Love	04:03
Lawn	As Yet	Peace in the Valley	02:58
Extras	One Last Time	Bit Parts	03:45
Mad Shadows	Gold	Music in the Night	03:27
ACTORS	Nightlife	Reanimated	04:24
Direktive 17	Don’t Pass Me By	ST (EP)	05:07
Dis Band	Interview Continued	Gone Dead Out	00:29
Volts	Dirty Money	Plugged In	02:59
A Fish in C	In Transit	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
Dis Band	Hesitation	Gone Dead Out	05:44
Ross Angeles	Hip Hip	Salute	02:21
Streetcar Named Desire	Someday Your Ship Will Come (Dance Mix)	Life Begins	04:17
Bunny & the Lakers	Oops On Parade	Numbers	01:30
Martha And The Muffins	Sinking Land	Metro Music	05:28
Mettle	All You Wanted	ST	03:59
Tim Ray	Once or Twice (January, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:17
Spoons	For Tran	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:45
Breeding Ground	Turn to Dust	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:20
Bunny & the Lakers	t.b. Farm (Kiss Me Now)	Numbers	01:27
Design	No Turning Back (remix)	No Turning Back	03:55
Maurice & The Clichés	Soft Core	C'est la vie	04:26
Martha And The Muffins	One Day in Paris	This Is The Ice Age	04:20
Compilation	Dis Band - Hesitation (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:16
One Hand Clapping	Bad Pianos	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	01:26
Compilation	The Guise - Lovers Unite	Saskatoon Rocks	04:34
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Errands For Eros	Spunker	04:09
Glamorcult	All That Matters	Shadows From The Past	03:39
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Planet Nine	Exit From a Dream	05:21
45's	She's In Love	On the Beach	03:27
Degrees of Freedom	In This Room	China	03:41
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Of Whales	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:36
Glamorcult	On The Line	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:04
Tim Ray	Scene a Fight (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:33
Tame & Talking	The Hole	ST	03:11
ACTORS	Jacknife	Reanimated	04:24
James Harcourt	It's a Matter of Time	Emotional Blackmail	02:24
Corsage	Jackson	ST	03:41
Iko	Elevator	83	03:56
100 Flowers	We're Waiting	21st Guessing	03:11
Interpol	Ursula (At Warsaw International)	ST	06:35
ACTORS	Slaves (FM Attack RMX)	Slaves (FM Attack RMX)	02:52
Images In Vogue	She's a Garden	Educated Man	02:48
Psyche	Wake the Flood Unconscious	Mystery Hotel	02:53
ACTORS	Post Traumatic Love (Woodhead Remix)	Reanimated	04:42
Rex Chainbelt	Goodbye Carol	Foreign Movie	03:24
Martha And The Muffins	Symptomatic Love	Trance and Dance	04:08
Tenants	Death of Innocence	Visions of Our Future	03:39
Tame & Talking	Conditioned Manaid	ST	04:01
Decade of Dreams	Sarah	Wild Colloquial	02:26
Blue Peter	Out With the Boys	Test Patterns For Living	03:08
Rob Bryanton	Gimme a Beer!	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:22
Age of Mirrors	Somewhere in Arabia	Screenplay	03:37
Steve Blimkie (and the Reason)	I Got This Feeling	Blimkie	02:13
Escalators	Wooly Bully	ST	03:58
Moral Support	Chasing Rainbows	Insanity	04:20
Tenants	Forget About Forgetting	ST	03:53
Oui	Information	Oui	04:41
Moev	Sea-Missile Motel	Dusk and Desire	06:23
Odd Man Out	World of My Own	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	03:35
Drama	Got to Get off the Earth	Loneliness	03:06
Klō	Baby Wants a Baby	Demo 1981	04:18
Mad Shadows	The River Flows	Music in the Night	03:03
Compilation	Steve Wood - It's Not That Easy	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:45
Maurice & The Clichés	Soft Core	Soft Core	04:26
A Kid	Wrong and Bite	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	06:21
Rarefaction	Ordinary Man	Ordinary Man	04:17
Theo Vandenhoff	Heartache Is An Empty Room	Heartache Is An Empty Room	04:09
I Braineater	Tin Pins and Cat Fur	I Here, Where You	02:36
Lou Champagne System	Broken Hearts	No Visible Means	03:31
The Diodes	Hot Sand (1981 Remixed Version 2017)	Rarities	03:18
ACTORS	We Don't Have to Dance	It Will Come to You	04:03
Popular Front (1)	Living On the Line	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	03:48
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	03:56
39 Steps	American Woman	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:11
Glen Meadmore	Gotta Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:04
Benjamin Russell	Miracle	Pop Modern(e)	05:28
Benjamin Russell	Rock It	Pop Modern(e)	04:06
Oui	Pulling Me Closer	Oui	03:45
Images In Vogue	Talking to Myself	In The House	03:44

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Sandro Durante - Durante

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

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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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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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