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
Modernes Pickles	Blue Baby Baby White	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	01:50
Psyche	Nocturnal Passenger	Mystery Hotel	06:07
Contradance	She's Got an Eyepiece	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	04:19
Broken Silence	Through the Glass	Nightstalking b/w Through the Glass (picture sleeve)	03:46
DeMars	Try... You Can't	Les Télé-Têtes	03:56
Tim Ray	Cliche (June, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:16
Shock Culture	Brave New World	ST (EP)	03:14
Iko	Elevator	83	03:56
Red Herring	Feelings	Taste Tests	02:21
One Hand Clapping	The Moon is Blue	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	02:39
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	TV	Ohama aka The White Album	04:33
Spoons	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:00
Living End	Death at an Early Age	Death at an Early Age b/w Magic Carpet Ride	03:12
Lawn	Over the Top	Peace in the Valley	03:00
Psyche	The Brain Collapses	Insomnia Theatre	04:09
Compilation	Breeding Ground - Thin Red Line	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	05:08
Blue Oil	Somewhere Over the Rainbow	ST	02:31
Handful of Snowdrops	Face to Face (Interim Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	06:33
Theo Vandenhoff	In The Throes Of Love	Collected EPs	04:50
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	On the Line	ST	04:09
UJ3RK5	Hands of Orlac	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:36
Popular Front	The Touch	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	04:32
Mettle	Five-Four	ST	04:39
Rational Youth	Close to Nature	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:43
Deserters	Thought Police	ST	04:08
Psyche	Ride On	Mystery Hotel	02:48
Emport	Heartaches	Heartaches b/w Picture Frame Love Affair	03:58
Glamorcult	Lonely Faces	The Stone Sessions	03:12
Strange Advance	One Chance in a Million	Worlds Away	04:12
Austra	The Beast	Feel it Break	04:02
Compilation	The Damned - Intro to "Smash It Up"	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	01:26
Bonus Boys	Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By	Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time	02:17
The Front	Can't Get Started	Gina's at a Party	04:18
Bruce PM	Well, Yes	Makeshift	04:45
Kinetic Ideals	No Exit	Reason (EP)	05:39
Vital Sines	Hype	Collage	04:43
Blue Oil	Far Too Much	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:52
The Idles	Again and Again	The Idles Demo	02:54
Theo Vandenhoff	Lift	Collected EPs	04:30
Degrees of Freedom	August is an Angel	China	04:27
Kaméléon	Anachronisme	ST	04:14
The Government	Gunshot Wound	Electric Eye	02:56
Psyche	Haunted	The Influence	04:10
The Modern Minds	Another World	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:15
Secret Act	Heaven	My Neighbourhood	04:12
Modernes Pickles	March of the Fingertips	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:57
Quasi Hands	Oil Barons	ST	03:49
Glamorcult	I Tell Him	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:00
The Idles	Uptown/Downtown	The Idles Demo	03:23
Fictions	Jersey Shore	ST	02:48
Darkroom	San Paku	San Paku	05:06
Images In Vogue	Save It	In The House	03:38
Salty Seamen	Lime Green Blues	In The Groove At Last	02:29
Glen Meadmore	Do Me Baby	Chicken & Biscuits	05:01
Bündock	Forbidden Zone	Société Anonyme	03:44
Spoons	Words Will Smash Walls	Static In Transmission	04:29
Psyche	The Brain Collapses (Original Concept)	Insomnia Theatre	04:07
Tin Twist	Sitting Here, Waiting Here	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	02:32
Blue Oil	From the Heart	Blue Oil (1981-83)	01:48
Erect	Action Reaction	Consequence of Life	02:57
Generra	Don’t Cut Me	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	03:57
Spoons	New Day New World	New Day New World	03:32
Doppler Bros.	The Wreck of the Eaton Centre	Totally Impractical	04:27
Theo Vandenhoff	Rosetta	Collected EPs	05:25
Drama	Feable	Loneliness	03:42
Compilation	Tyranna - Back Off Baby	No Pedestrians	02:26
ACTORS	In Real Life	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:15
Thieves	Screams	I See Red	04:40
Eight Seconds	Happy Endings	Big Houses	03:46
This Fear	Haunting Me	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:23
Moev	Circles And Squares	Dusk and Desire	03:29
Cöld Wår	Do You Notice Me	Do You Notice Me b/w Klub Haus (picture sleeve)	03:31
Hush	Highway of Love	Replay	03:31
Inner Sanction	Sparkle	Shake Up - Fly Down	02:51
Spoons	One in Ten Words	Arias & Symphonies	04:10
James G. Thompson	It's Hot	Hand In Hand	04:08
Handful of Snowdrops	A Short Story (1985)	Mort en direct	07:10
Jon Mullane	Somebody	Following Yesterday	03:15
Spoons	Nova Heart	Arias & Symphonies	05:46
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:44
Drama	Old Hollywood	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	03:32
Handful of Snowdrops	From One Place to Another	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:10
Age of Mirrors	The Day the Earth Stands Still - Breathless	Mirage	05:44
The Modern Minds	The Fear Begins	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:48
Instructions	Tell-a-Photo	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:38
Darkroom	In Dim light	San Paku	03:34
Extras	Stay Up All Night	Bit Parts	02:54
Graphics	Sleepdancer	Sleepdancer b/w Our Planet Ocean	03:41
Glamorcult	Cry for the Children	Atlantis Under the Sea	04:58
S.Q	One Love	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:34
Velveteens	Love as a Rule	Tall House (EP)	03:03
Psyche	Thundershowers	Unveiling The Secret	05:13
ACTORS	CTRL	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:15
Suns of One	Freedom Time	Freedom Time	04:02
Modernettes	New Society	Gone..But Not Forgiven	02:30
A Day in Paris	Child's Cry	Prey	03:45
Minutes From Downtown	Heaven Street	ST	04:35
Melinite	Trouble in Section 17	Push The Button And Run!	01:46
Drama	Loneliness	Loneliness	03:28
Awake The Echoes	I Need Someone to Complain to	Normal Life	02:43

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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James G. Thompson - Hand In Hand

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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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