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
Images In Vogue	For Germans	Pre-release	04:54
Preison's Shade	Race Me Home	Race Me Home (EP)	04:56
Compilation	Steve Wood - Black and Whites	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:06
Handful of Snowdrops	Ends & Meanings (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:00
The Scene (2)	Gardens of Babylon	Only in Paradise	04:56
Mettle	Five-Four	ST	04:39
Psyche	Make No Mistake	Mystery Hotel	04:11
ACTORS	Slaves (FM Attack RMX)	Slaves (FM Attack RMX)	02:52
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Lindsay	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:11
Corsage	Down at the Rock	ST	03:26
Moral Support	Insanity	Insanity	04:33
I Braineater	I Here Where You	I Here, Where You	02:51
A Fish in C	In Transit	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
Melinite	Waiting 4-U	Push The Button And Run!	01:48
Hot Tip	Teach Me Something	Stop All Motion	04:12
Spoons	Show & Tell	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:31
Handful of Snowdrops	Holy Hossuary (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:58
Modernettes	The Rebel Kind	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:08
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Talkin' About Her	Spunker	03:07
Modernes Pickles	People Get Killed and Get Up and Kill	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:25
39 Steps	I'll Take the Blame	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:25
Modernes Pickles	Juvenile Jungle	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:26
Rob Bryanton	Havin' Some Fun Tonight	Alcohol And Other Drugs	00:36
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	My Time	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	05:15
Martha And The Muffins	You Sold the Cottage	This Is The Ice Age	04:01
Jon Mullane	The Distant Light	Following Yesterday	04:05
Mettle	Emotional Desert	ST	05:17
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Pre-release	03:30
Cannon Heath Down	A Charming Sound	Heart-Throb Companion	04:25
39 Steps	A Taste of Poison [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:35
Kaméléon	Genocide genethliaque	ST	04:03
Drastic Measures	Prelude	ST	01:09
Spoons	Be Alone Tonight	Bridges Over Borders	05:11
Maurice & The Clichés	Soft Core	Soft Core	04:26
Shock Culture	Brave New World	ST (EP)	03:14
I Braineater	Edge	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:30
Bicycle Thieves	Anita	ST	03:31
Einstein	Fire of My Loins	Sex and Science	04:48
Family Plot	Taxi Driver	Convictions	05:17
Modernes Pickles	Colors	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:18
Kinetic Ideals	Structures	Reason (EP)	04:47
Iko	Digital Delight	83	05:53
Vital Sines	New Heroes	Big Dark Dreams	04:55
The Scene (2)	Egos Trip	Only in Paradise	06:34
The Edge	Why Do I Miss You?	Release the Circle	03:53
Blue Peter	Do the Robot	Test Patterns For Living	03:25
James Harcourt	You Make My Thing Ping	Emotional Blackmail	02:48
Spoons	No More Growing Up	Arias & Symphonies	03:25
A Day in Paris	wItHoUt yOu	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:19
I Before E	Power of Reason	Power of Reason b/w Cocktails	02:23
Modernettes	No Tears	Gone..But Not Forgiven	03:37
Preison's Shade	Tearing Down the Walls	Race Me Home (EP)	04:52
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cité phosphoree b/w Le meilleur des mondes	02:59
Psyche	Misery	The Influence	04:06
Government	I'm Somebody	Electric Eye	01:36
The Front	Your Street	Underworld	04:10
James Harcourt	Queen Bee	Emotional Blackmail	02:17
The Idles	Again and Again	The Idles Demo	02:54
Glamorcult	Past Glory	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Bitter Reality	Tellin' Me Goodbye	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:38
Living End (1)	Time is Unkind	ST	03:11
Age of Mirrors	Simple Gift of Love	Mirage	03:05
Timothy Chipman	Night Patrol	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:22
Villains	Call Me Up	Go Crazy	03:00
Salty Seamen	Rings Around Uranus	In The Groove At Last	02:18
A Day in Paris	cAn'T lOoK aWaY	Rhymes On Vinyl	04:03
Rational Youth	Saturdays in Silesia	Cold War Nightlife	04:21
Kaméléon	Les chats ballerines	ST	03:53
Modernettes	Femme Fatale	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:53
A Neon Rome	The Prayer	New Heroin	06:01
Breeding Ground	Wintergarden	Wintergarden (EP)	04:20
Moev	Remembrance Day	Zimmerkampf	05:23
John Young Paul	The Boulevards of Hope	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:37
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Over Mountains	Ohama aka The White Album	03:14
NEO A4	Say This to Me	ST	03:31
Rational Youth	Heredity	Heredity	04:18
Kinetic Ideals	Maze of Ways	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	04:09
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Where Do You Call Home?	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:46
Deserters	Protection	ST	03:20
Cannon Heath Down	Bone Of Contention	Heart-Throb Companion	03:34
Government	Get You Sleepin'	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:17
Drama	God Is a Machine	Loneliness	02:27
Instructions	Naked Deer	ST	02:49
The Play	Midnight Dreams	Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City	03:12
Shanghai Lil	Flower And a Bee	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:28
Martha And The Muffins	Halfway Through the Week	Trance and Dance	03:41
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
Benjamin Russell	Gentle Charms	Madman	01:48
Klō	Clown	Demo 1981	03:17
Lou Champagne System	Another Dimension	No Visible Means	04:50
Contradance	Black Preppies	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	02:28
Rational Youth	Bang On	Heredity	04:11
Benjamin Russell	Miracle	Pop Modern(e)	05:28
Bruce PM	Senility	Makeshift	02:27
Figures At Dawn	Distance Through Darkness	ST	03:10
Velveteens	Flies	Tall House (EP)	04:09
Cardboard Brains	The Monster in Ed	Live At The Edge	03:26
Handful of Snowdrops	In the Eye of the Storm	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:25
Philip Rambow	Don't Come (Cryin' To Me)	Jungle Law	03:37
Palace at 4 a.m.	White Guilt	White Guilt	04:34

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Channel 5 - ST (EP)

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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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