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
Age of Mirrors	Raiders of the Heart	Screenplay	03:39
The Diodes	Time of Your Life (1978 Previously Unreleased)	Rarities	02:46
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a T.V. Set	Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.	05:08
Design	No Turning Back (remix)	No Turning Back	03:55
Family Plot	Old Refrain	Convictions	04:09
NEO A4	In My Life	The Warmer Side of You	03:19
Moral Lepers	Beryl Bean	Turn to Stone	02:41
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:41
Instructions	The Extra	ST	03:12
45's	She's In Love	On the Beach	03:27
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Stand	Spunker	02:36
Start	Hey You	Hey You	04:03
Scissors	All This And More	ST	02:46
James Harcourt	It's a Matter of Time	Emotional Blackmail	02:24
Eight Seconds	Kiss You (When It's Dangerous)	Almacantar	04:07
Modernes Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:44
Extras	Sporting Life	The Road to Zambando	03:50
Glamorcult	Innocense of Yesterday	Early Glamour	04:21
The Government	Fumigators	Electric Eye	03:12
Pukka Orchestra	Miss Right	ST	03:32
Cannon Heath Down	Belly Through	Heart-Throb Companion	04:32
Compilation	Glamatron - Klüb	The Circuit	02:28
Images In Vogue	Travel	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	05:34
Family Plot	Just One Slip	Convictions	04:04
Rob Bryanton	Insiduous Trends	Alcohol And Other Drugs	04:47
Martha And The Muffins	Obedience	Danseparc	03:30
Carbon Unit	The Marsh	The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)	02:45
The Government	On The Prowl (Reprise)	Electric Eye	02:36
Moev	Remembrance Day	Zimmerkampf	05:23
Images In Vogue	Promised Land	In The House	06:03
Beach Punks	She Got Body Talk	She Got Body Talk	04:52
Ceramic Hello	The Disqued	The Absence of a Canary	03:54
Glamorcult	The Encore	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:04
Austra	The Future	Feel it Break	04:02
Family Plot	Gravedigger	Convictions	02:19
I Braineater	Sacred Cow	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:03
Wrestlers	When You Sleep Together	ST	03:42
Shock Culture	Haunted by Tokyo	ST (EP)	03:49
The Idles	Uptown/Downtown	The Idles Demo	03:23
Modernes Pickles	Chocolate Lady	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:21
Magic Dragon	(White Monkey) Under The Volcano	Emotional Landscape	07:16
Hot Tip	My Shoes	Stop All Motion	03:52
Theo Vandenhoff	In The Throes Of Love	Collected EPs	04:50
Roland Blinn	Tense	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	02:27
John Young Paul	Surrender to the Void	The Life of Ermie Scub	04:05
Absolute 9	Love and Work	ST	03:50
Bumpers	Log 1	EP	04:44
The Diodes	That Was The Way That It Was	Action-Reaction	03:46
Psyche	Eating Violins	Insomnia Theatre	02:45
Spoons	Stop	Talkback	03:16
Glamatron	The Word (Death In September)	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:24
Scenics	I'm Hurt	Underneath the Door	02:02
Moev	Cocoon	Zimmerkampf	04:45
ACTORS	Crosses	It Will Come to You	04:12
Martha And The Muffins	Motorbikin'	Trance and Dance	02:58
Compilation	Frantics - Asleep With the Light On	Saskatoon Rocks	03:31
Psyche	Insatiable	Mystery Hotel	04:41
The Diodes	Roses and Thorns	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:22
Glamorcult	Crestfallen	A Price To Paris	03:37
Living End (1)	Close Your Eyes	ST	04:53
Jon Mullane	Somebody	Following Yesterday	03:15
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News	Midnite News	07:10
Tulpa	Apologize to Your Mother	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	04:29
Mettle	All You Wanted	ST	03:59
Men Without Hats	Where do Boys Go	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	03:56
Rarefaction	Abstract Minds	Ordinary Man	04:56
Degrees of Freedom	China	China	06:00
John Lutz T.	Kiss And Tell	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	02:10
Hush	Dancing in East Berlin	Replay	04:17
Glamorcult	I Have Nothing To Say To You	The Stone Sessions	04:01
Martha And The Muffins	Symptomatic Love	Trance and Dance	04:08
The Modern Minds	All Day & All of the Night	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:18
Low Fun	Words We Left Behind	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	03:41
Modernes Pickles	I've Won a Million	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:02
Spoons	Show & Tell	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:31
Rex Chainbelt	Talk It Over	Foreign Movie	02:15
Kaméléon	Insomnuit (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:35
Tim Ray	Love = Fusion (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:50
Glamorcult	Atlantis Under the Sea	Atlantis Under the Sea	04:21
Vex	DNA	DNA	03:24
David Raven & the Escorts	Somethin' in Our Way	David Raven And The Escorts	04:25
The Scene (2)	Rise	Only in Paradise	05:12
Decade of Dreams	One Night in Bohemia	Wild Colloquial	03:50
Boys Brigade	Voices	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:27
Rarefaction	You In Me	Ordinary Man	05:50
Iko	Communication Off	83	04:34
Drama	As I Breathe On The T.T.C.	Loneliness	04:04
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Drugs	Ohama aka The White Album	04:36
Moral Lepers	Music is Your Body	Turn to Stone	02:45
Regulators	That´s Right Nothing's Left	What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)	02:53
Pukka Orchestra	Power Cut	ST	05:13
Me And the Mosquitos	Go Away	Go Away b/w Valium	03:43
Border	Black and White	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:01
The Diodes	Behind Those Eyes (Aug 1977 Crash 'N' Burn Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	02:42
The Modern Minds	Girl Crazy	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:22
Rheostatics	Satellite Dancing	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:31
UJ3RK5	Marnie	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:32
BB Gabor	Hunger, Poverty and Misery	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	03:50
David Raven & the Escorts	Dance Dance Dance	David Raven And The Escorts	02:22
Rational Youth	Coboloid Race	I Want to See the Light	05:14

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

FEATURED

Glass Apple Bonzai - Love & Hatred in MegaWave City

FEATURED

Eight Seconds - Big Houses

FEATURED

Eight Seconds - Almacantar

FEATURED

Theo Vandenhoff - Saviour on the Spilled Blood

FEATURED

Theo Vandenhoff - In The Throes Of Love

FEATURED

Theo Vandenhoff - Heartache Is An Empty Room

FEATURED

Theo Vandenhoff - Alles Ist Besser

FEATURED

Theo Vandenhoff - Collected EPs

FEATURED

Theo Vandenhoff - Tenement

FEATURED

Sound FX - Sound FX

FEATURED

Sandro Durante - Don't Go (Breaking My Heart) b/w All That Magic

FEATURED

Hypno-Gogo - In Your Eyes b/w Flashing

FEATURED

Mad Shadows - Music in the Night

FEATURED

The Modern Minds - Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97

FEATURED

Bruce PM - Makeshift

FEATURED

Space Invaders - ST (EP)

FEATURED

Dis Band - Gone Dead Out

FEATURED

Compilation - Saskatoon Rocks

FEATURED

The Government - How Many Fingers?

FEATURED

The Government - Electric Eye

FEATURED

The Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

FEATURED

Bumpers - EP

FEATURED

Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

FEATURED

Ross Angeles - Salute

FEATURED

Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - You Can´t Hold Me Anymore b/w Freaks On the Tube

FEATURED

Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - Blimkie

FEATURED

Drama - Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)

FEATURED

Drama - Loneliness

FEATURED

Glamorcult - Atlantis Under the Sea

FEATURED

Glamorcult - A Price To Paris

Comments