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.

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Martha And The Muffins - Danseparc

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Gas, The - Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)

Mississauga, Ontario

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Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - I Fear What I Might Hear

Brooks → Rainier → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Zipper - Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls

Victoria, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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NEO A4 - ST

Edmonton, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Kinetic Ideals - Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Breeding Ground - Wintergarden (EP)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Second Thoughts - Integrity b/w Wound Up

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Billy Butt & The Brats - Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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End, The - Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)

Bath, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Numbers - Add Up

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Golden Calgarians - New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

Nevermen - The Monitor LP

Toronto, Ontario

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Tabby K - Summertime b/w Wind Or Water

North York, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Diodes - Action-Reaction

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Strange Advance - Worlds Away

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

Tulpa - Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Golden Calgarians - Savage Love

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Rational Youth - Cold War Nightlife

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Rikki & The Rokkits - New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)

Calgary, Alberta

Micks - ST (EP)

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Chown, Avril - American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Broken Tables - ST

Mississauga, Ontario

Bobby and Synthia - thirty-six hours (EP)

Toronto, Ontario

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Cottage Industry - The Winter's Tale

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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Zhivago, Johnny - Microalbum

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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Lawn - Peace in the Valley

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

45's - On the Beach

Toronto, Ontario

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Numbers - Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Ohama - Julie is a TV Set - back side

Joe Naylor - I'm Canadian Beer vinyl side 1

Rob Bryanton - Alcohol And Other Drugs

Glamatron - Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence

Novels - I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam

Tau Ceti - So Far

Mettle, London Ontario

B.B. Gabor - Nyet Nyet Soviet b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)

Lawn - Peace in the Valley insert 01

Elan - Penticton Peaches (insert)

CHMR Chart March 2 1985

Music Scene Magazine

The Gas - Evacuate b/w Special This Week (Evacuate Mississauga picture sleeve)

Bunny & the Lakers - Numbers

Bunny & the Lakers Howrd Pope

Vital Sines - Subway Suicide/ Erik the Generik b/w Sex & Babies (picture sleeve)

Pelicans - Pelicans b/w New Wave insert

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

Kreemers - Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo

Allan Scarth of the Null Set

Tribal Earth - Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)

Modernettes - Gone..But Not Forgiven side 02

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Time Twins - Yuri Song b/w Say Uncle (picture sleeve)

Border - Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)

One Hand Clapping - Burlesque (picture sleeve)

L-R Peter Whittington, Angela Camp, Peter Molloy & Andy Camp

Regulators - What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)

Cannon Heath Down - Heart-Throb Companion

Cannon Heath Down

Tracks

Artist Track Title
B-Sides Regular Guy Red to Black
Design No Turning Back (remix) No Turning Back
Glamorcult A Farewell to Arms Would it be Over (picture sleeve)
Rational Youth No More and No Less Heredity
Spunker (aka Neotone) Dead Dogs Spunker
Rambow, Philip Jessica Jungle Law
Breeding Ground Reflections (In a Coffee Cup) Tales of Adventure (EP)
Frigidaires Three Cool Cats Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)
Villains Go Crazy Go Crazy
Calling Rain Laid in Ruins Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)
Spunker (aka Neotone) Neighbours Spunker
Tau Ceti San Francisco And I Wonder b/w San Francisco
Deserters Protection ST
Darkroom Some Stories Never Change San Paku
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Take Me Dancing Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Rock 'N' Roll Ohama aka The White Album
British Properties Niag'ra Falls Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls
Rex Chainbelt Cherry Beach Foreign Movie
Handful of Snowdrops Somewhere Higher (2nd Lineup Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Glamorcult A Price to Paris A Price To Paris
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Extras Zambando The Road to Zambando
Neurons Midnight Meetings Midnight Meetings b/w New Location
FM109 Ecoeure' ecoure' ST
Direktive 17 Between the Lines ST (EP)
UJ3RK5 The Locator ST (EP)
Spoons The Rhythm Talkback
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Don't Be Afraid Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile
Welcome Home In This Life In This Life b/w Top of the World (picture sleeve)
Government I Don't Really Care Electric Eye
Russell, Benjamin Shadows Dancing Pop Modern(e)
Ohm & the Secret Sources Timeless Thoughts (To the Stars) Space and Time
Villains Wendy's Melody Go Crazy
Rave Revues Self Inflicted Wounds Voices
Drastic Measures Silk Stockings ST
Motive Don’t You Know Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)
Spunker (aka Neotone) Rich Kids Spunker
Images In Vogue Fade Away Educated Man
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Midnite News Midnite News
Villains Lovers Go Crazy
Handful of Snowdrops A Miracle Land of the Damned
Velveteens Flies Tall House (EP)
Moev Czar Dusk and Desire
Cannon Heath Down Not Now Heart-Throb Companion
Russell, Benjamin Baby, This Is Love Madman
Golden Calgarians Sex Under Missiles Savage Love
Moral Lepers Beryl Bean Turn to Stone
Drama Human Question Loneliness
Images In Vogue Welcome to Sorrow Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982
e Power Blackout The Levitation Syndrome
Glamorcult Afterglow Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)
Russell, Benjamin Take Me As You Find Me Madman
Secret Act Northern Spy My Neighbourhood
Government Flat Tire 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.
Harcourt, James Like the Way It Feels Emotional Blackmail
39 Steps Jump on the Death Train All Kinds of Shit '85-'87
This Fear Lights of Capitals Darkness Shapes Imagination
Bündock Season for Love Société Anonyme
Vis-A-Vis I am the Night Heart and Soul
Drama Traffic Loneliness
Rarefaction Abstract Minds Ordinary Man
Spoons Time Stands Still Talkback
Magic Dragon Once Upon a Time Emotional Landscape
Keys Lied To! Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)
Golden Calgarians Savage Love Savage Love
Scenics Tokyo New Part In Town
Drastic Measures The Teddy Bear's Picnic ST
Tenants I Love Romance ST
Handful of Snowdrops Sometimes I Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition
Ohm & the Secret Sources I Hold the Key Exit From a Dream
Diodes That Was The Way That It Was Action-Reaction
Land of Giants Thing Called Love Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks
Russell, Benjamin Power of Love Pop Modern(e)
Psyche Ride On Mystery Hotel
Future Yanx Suite For A Nation Suite For A Nation (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Casualties of Glass This Is The Ice Age
Mobile Clones Motionless Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)
Palace at 4 a.m. The Age of Reason(able Pleasure) White Guilt
Magic Dragon Egyptian Radio Emotional Landscape
Erect The Colony We Are Police b/w The Colony
Erect There Goes My Baby Consequence of Life
Diodes No Time to Cry (1981 Previously Unreleased) (CD only) Rarities
A Neon Rome The Magical Summer of '85 New Heroin
Scene, The (2) What I Need Only in Paradise
Matheson, Andrew Debbie Monterey Shoes
Golden Calgarians It's OK Savage Love
Corsage Shut-Ins ST
Ohm & the Secret Sources Mad at the World Space and Time
Psyche Illusion The Influence
Lawn Don`t Ask Peace in the Valley
Moev Cocoon Zimmerkampf
Kaméléon Anachronisme ST
Figures At Dawn Close My Eyes ST
Glamorcult Mine is the Maiden Early Glamour
B-Sides Invasion of the Money Snatchers Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious
Deserters Present Life ST
Compilation Vital Sines - Not My World (live) Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands
e Kunst Kopf Prime Cuts
Men Without Hats Where do Boys Go BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A
Erect The Tube Consequence of Life

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