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.

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Images In Vogue	Grapevine	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:55
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Someone Should Have Told Me (Behind Black Gloves)	Space and Time	04:39
Demars	Les cosmétiques cosmiques	Les Tele-Tetes	03:48
Kinetic Ideals	Animalistic	Reason (EP)	05:09
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Land of Giants	Security Squad	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
Government	I Don't Really Care	Electric Eye	04:04
Salt And the Choppers	I And You	I And You b/w Flounder (picture sleeve)	02:41
Modern Minds	Punk Violence	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:16
Deserters	Boys In Berlin	ST	03:42
Chemicals	Run and Hide	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	02:49
Modern Minds	Holly	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	01:59
Tin Twist	Sometimes It's Funny	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	03:38
Class Info	Come For Me	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	02:27
Melinite	Who Needs Foreplay?	Push The Button And Run!	01:30
Raven, David & the Escorts	One Way Love	David Raven And The Escorts	02:36
Start	State of Her Shine	Hey You	03:12
Kaméléon	Genocide genethliaque	ST	04:03
Images In Vogue	She's a Garden	Educated Man	02:48
Corsage	Big Night Out (Single Mix)	Big Night Out (EP)	05:11
Glamorcult	This Is Our Story	The Stone Sessions	03:44
Champagne, Lou System	Don't Say I'm Here	No Visible Means	03:27
39 Steps	American Woman	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:11
Barking Boys	Incident In St. Jamestown	The Yes Girls	04:58
Golden Calgarians	Savage Love	Savage Love	04:16
Bitter Reality	A White Man (In Babylon)	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:40
Mashats, Ralph	Empty Eyes (Fly My Way)	Irradies b/w Empty Eyes (Fly My Way) (picture sleeve)	05:05
Glamorcult	Distant Memories	The Stone Sessions	04:07
Vital Sines	Collage	Collage	04:25
Darkroom	Pressure	San Paku	04:09
Living End (1)	Close Your Eyes	ST	04:53
Corsage	Monument	Big Night Out (EP)	01:25
Popular Front	Puppet	Doomsday Army b/w Puppet	03:17
Handful of Snowdrops	White Dominoes (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:11
Instructions	The Extra	ST	03:12
Vital Sines	Hype	Collage	04:43
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Sister H. Immaculata	Spunker	02:12
Martha And The Muffins	Be Blase	Trance and Dance	02:42
FM109	L'ecole est fuckee	ST	04:19
Modernettes	No Tears	Gone..But Not Forgiven	03:37
Harcourt, James	You Make My Thing Ping	Emotional Blackmail	02:48
Tyro	Strong Willed Woman	A Little More Time (EP)	02:27
Compilation	Pat Grehan - Fury Girl	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:13
Russell, Benjamin	Orphans	Pop Modern(e)	03:35
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't Look Now	Spunker	03:44
Absolute 9	She Believes	ST	02:52
Streetcar Named Desire	Yesteryear	Life Begins	02:58
Diodes	Photographs Of Mars (Live At The Horseshoe June 7 1980)	Rarities	04:32
Bell, John and the Strange	Taking You Home in a Taxi	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	03:24
Martha And The Muffins	World Without Borders	Danseparc	03:08
Glamorcult	Crestfallen	A Price To Paris	03:37
Compilation	Winston Hancock - Girls, Girls	No Pedestrians	03:15
Breeding Ground	Tales of Adventure	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:14
Images In Vogue	King's Service	In The House	03:25
Chipman, Timothy	China Doll	Ghost Parade	02:31
Dancespeak	Heart of My Song	Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)	03:49
Martha And The Muffins	Halfway Through the Week	Trance and Dance	03:41
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Lindsay	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:11
Iko	Model Type A	83	05:08
Cöld Wår	Do You Notice Me	Do You Notice Me b/w Klub Haus (picture sleeve)	03:31
King, Buddy & the Motion!	I Didn't Know Her	Schoolgirl Alibis b/w I Didn't Know Her	02:14
Rambow, Philip	Jessica	Jungle Law	04:00
Frigidaires	Three Cool Cats	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:12
Breeding Ground	Cerememony of Love	Obscurity And Flair	04:43
Images In Vogue	Worlds of Noise	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:30
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	04:27
Bicycle Thieves	Anita	ST	03:31
Annabelle's Room	Hopscotch	ST	04:41
Russell, Benjamin	Dance Man	Pop Modern(e)	04:12
Handful of Snowdrops	Healer (1988)	Mort en direct	06:25
I, Braineater	Frosted Lips	I Here, Where You	03:28
End, The	Just Another Dream	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	04:04
Martha And The Muffins	Trance and Dance	Trance and Dance	07:14
Handful of Snowdrops	Somewhere Higher (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:25
Blue Peter	Living in the Eighties	Test Patterns For Living	02:26
Extras	Seeing You Again	The Road to Zambando	03:40
Bumpers	I Watch You Go	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:34
Glamorcult	A Farewell to Arms	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	02:35
This Fear	Lights of Capitals	Darkness Shapes Imagination	03:50
Russell, Benjamin	Video Freak	Pop Modern(e)	04:17
Glamorcult	Past Glory	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Eight Seconds	Tell Diane	Big Houses	04:45
Martha And The Muffins	One Day in Paris	This Is The Ice Age	04:20
Secret Act	Talk Talk!	My Neighbourhood	02:55
100 Flowers	Darkness	21st Guessing	05:39
Rex Chainbelt	Mon Ami	Foreign Movie	02:22
Modernettes	Red Nails	View From The Bottom (EP)	03:02
Diodes	Hot Sands	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:32
Eight Seconds	Sincere	Almacantar	04:27
Images In Vogue	Call it Love	In The House	03:51
Tribal Earth	Who You Are (In the Movies)	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	02:46
Psyche	Salvation Stranger	The Influence	03:54
Mavety, Joe & the Mule	Crusaders	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	03:49
Extras	I Never Told You, I Told You So	The Watcher (EP)	04:26
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
Edge, The	Release the Circle	Release the Circle	04:36
Mettle	The Invisibles	ST	03:14
Ceramic Hello	Geometry	The Absence of a Canary	07:25
Degrees of Freedom	Risk	China	03:46
Matthews, Scott	Navigation	Boats in Rivers	03:33

New Wave Post Punk Wave

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Martha And The Muffins - Danseparc

Gas, The - Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)

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Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

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

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Zipper - Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls

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NEO A4 - ST

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

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Breeding Ground - Wintergarden (EP)

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Second Thoughts - Integrity b/w Wound Up

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

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

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Numbers - Add Up

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

Nevermen - The Monitor LP

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Tabby K - Summertime b/w Wind Or Water

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Diodes - Action-Reaction

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Strange Advance - Worlds Away

Tulpa - Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)

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Golden Calgarians - Savage Love

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Rational Youth - Cold War Nightlife

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

Micks - ST (EP)

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

Broken Tables - ST

Bobby and Synthia - thirty-six hours (EP)

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Cottage Industry - The Winter's Tale

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Zhivago, Johnny - Microalbum

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Lawn - Peace in the Valley

45's - On the Beach

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

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