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
Rave Revues	Rules Of Play	Long Time Coming b/w Rules Of Play (picture sleeve)	04:23
Handful of Snowdrops	Over My Head (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:44
Red Herring	The Crab Song	Taste Tests	03:57
Martha And The Muffins	Primal Weekend	Trance and Dance	05:14
Drama	God Is a Machine	Loneliness	02:27
Melinite	Waiting 4-U	Push The Button And Run!	01:48
Secret Act	Talk Talk!	My Neighbourhood	02:55
Tenants	I Love Romance	ST	03:55
Tame & Talking	Fallen Angel (Broken Wings)	ST	03:33
Images In Vogue	Flashing Black	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:30
Glamorcult	After the Battle	Early Glamour	03:12
Scissors	Don't Call Me Chick	ST	02:17
Edsells	Don't Wanna Go to School	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	03:06
The Pink Zone	Amsterdam Day	Amsterdam Day b/w You Or Me	04:09
Age of Mirrors	Simple Gift of Love	Mirage	03:05
The Patterns	Afraid to Touch	Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen	03:57
Rational Youth	Call Me	Heredity	02:59
Deserters	Alien	ST	03:43
Velveteens	Tall House	Tall House (EP)	03:05
Psyche	Eating Violins	Insomnia Theatre	02:45
Benjamin Russell	Shadows Dancing	Pop Modern(e)	04:15
Psyche	Nocturnal Passenger	Mystery Hotel	06:07
4th Floor	Follow in Stride	Black & White b/w Follow in Stride	04:16
Diodes	Play With Fire	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	05:30
Glamorcult	Fusion (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:23
Kinetic Ideals	Life in Shadow	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	02:57
Mannequin Depressives	Erase It	Girls Are Evil	04:58
Villains	Long, Short, Skinny Or Fat	Go Crazy	02:56
Tenants	Winner	ST	03:21
Diodes	Photographs Of Mars (Live At The Horseshoe June 7 1980)	Rarities	04:32
Salty Seamen	Neanderthal	In The Groove At Last	04:24
Scenics	One Comes Closer	Underneath the Door	03:18
Friendly Fire	Complete Control	Junior Senility EP	03:12
Glamorcult	Yes, See Has the Afterglow	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:32
Joe Naylor	I Hate Fluorescent Lights	I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights	03:18
Land of Giants	Fire With Fire	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:50
Norda	V	West Over Seas	05:27
Pukka Orchestra	Goldmine in the Sky	The Palace Of Memeory	03:58
Mettle	All You Wanted	ST	03:59
Null Set	Stripe	New Job (EP)	01:18
Neon	Slaves	ST (EP)	03:00
Bicycle Thieves	Picking Up Pens	ST	04:17
Strange Advance	Automatic Sighs	Worlds Away	04:41
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lola	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:08
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Compilation	Crash Course In Science - Kitchen Motors (Produced by John Wicks, Third Story Recording, Philadelphia, USA)	Strange Pleasures EP	02:36
Strange Advance	Kiss in the Dark	Worlds Away	03:56
Benjamin Russell	Angel of Mercy	Madman	02:45
Bicycle Thieves	Imperial Love	ST	04:07
Thieves	Color	I See Red	04:09
Oui	You Make Me High	Oui	04:41
Scissors	Summer Girls	ST	02:18
Wrestlers	Intro - Yeah! I'm Drunk	ST	04:12
Design	No Turning Back (remix)	No Turning Back	03:55
Scenics	Mony Mony	Underneath the Door	02:52
Roland Blinn	Tense	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	02:27
Government	On the Prowl	Electric Eye	04:39
Awake The Echoes	Always Something Wrong	Normal Life	03:59
Government	Following You	Electric Eye	02:07
e	Excerpt	Prime Cuts	02:09
Psyche	The Saint Became a Lush	Unveiling The Secret	06:25
Images In Vogue	Lust for Love	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:18
Martha And The Muffins	Halfway Through the Week	Trance and Dance	03:41
Rave Revues	Voices	Voices	04:00
Regulators	What's in the City	What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)	03:42
Hot Tip	Teach Me Something	Stop All Motion	04:12
Psyche	Unveiling the Secret	Unveiling The Secret	07:03
Entrance System	Swoon	Imperfect Image	04:05
Norda	Snakes And Ladders	West Over Seas	02:51
Diodes	Polaroid	Action-Reaction	02:37
Glamorcult	I Will Still Be There	The Stone Sessions	04:05
I Braineater	Waste	I Here, Where You	02:39
Class Info	I Want	Inside	05:22
Secret Act	Fred Flinstone, Where Are You	My Neighbourhood	03:52
Blueprints	Down On My Sublife	Stare 01	04:06
Generra	Girls in the Hearts	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	04:19
Melinite	For Now	Push The Button And Run!	03:37
Extras	Stay Up All Night	Bit Parts	02:54
Timothy Chipman	China Doll	Ghost Parade	02:31
Compilation	Winston Hancock & The Changes - Love at First Sight	The Circuit	02:36
Villains	Call Me Up	Go Crazy	03:00
Inner Sanction	Runaway	Dancematic-Automatic	03:07
Glamorcult	Would It Be Over	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:28
Vital Sines	Erik the Generik	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:45
Kinetic Ideals	Fade Away	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	07:44
Benjamin Russell	Dance Man	Pop Modern(e)	04:12
Benjamin Russell	Video Freak	Pop Modern(e)	04:17
Diodes	Time of Your Life (1978 Previously Unreleased)	Rarities	02:46
Salty Seamen	Lime Green Blues	In The Groove At Last	02:29
Awake The Echoes	Someone	Normal Life	04:07
Glen Meadmore	Gotta Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:04
Glamatron	Facial Saviour	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	05:02
Low Fun	The New Dictator	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	05:01
Bunny & the Lakers	Shrieks From the Peeks	Numbers	03:10
Lawn	As Yet	Peace in the Valley	02:58
Government	It Must be God-Downtown	Electric Eye	02:52
Inner Sanction	Standing in the Rain	Prophecy	03:21
B-Sides	B-Side Shuffle	Red to Black	02:25
Tulpa	Mystical Dreams	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	03:36
Rarefaction	I Dreamt	Abstract Minds b/w I Dreamt (picture sleeve)	04:04

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Our Sir Francis to the Sea - ST

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Tame & Talking - ST

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Vital Sines - Big Dark Dreams

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Vital Sines - Subway Suicide E.P.

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Vital Sines - Collage

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Tim Ray - ST

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Volts - Plugged In

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This Fear - Darkness Shapes Imagination

Tenants - ST

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Compilation - The Circuit

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Moral Support - Insanity

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Scenics - Underneath the Door

Nex'd - Surreal (EP)

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Awake The Echoes - Normal Life

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Channel Five - ST (EP)

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Electric Mocean - Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)

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No Comment - Wondering b/w Honesty

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Neon - ST (EP)

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The Plugs - Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today

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Bunny & the Lakers - Numbers

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A Day in Paris - Prey

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Hypno-Gogo - In Your Eyes b/w Flashing

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A Day in Paris - Rhymes On Vinyl

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David Raven & the Escorts - David Raven And The Escorts

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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Bonus Boys - Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time

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Cry - ST

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Friendly Fire - Junior Senility EP

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Second Thoughts - Integrity b/w Wound Up

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

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