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
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Hothouse	ST	04:32
Drama	A Kiss Without Lust	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	03:12
Magic Dragon	Objet Du Desire	Emotional Landscape	05:34
Martha And The Muffins	About Insomnia	Trance and Dance	03:12
Government	It Must be God-Downtown	Electric Eye	02:52
Neon	Second Wind	ST (EP)	02:52
FM109	Mirror Man	ST	03:17
45's	She's In Love	On the Beach	03:27
A Kid	Dirty Bedding	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:35
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
Blue Peter	Factory Living	Test Patterns For Living	02:50
Palace at 4 a.m.	White Guilt	White Guilt	04:34
Catherine	Operating System	Operating System b/w Operating System	03:03
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Space and Time	05:20
Broken Silence	Through the Glass	Nightstalking b/w Through the Glass (picture sleeve)	03:46
Diodes	Lawn Boy Lover (1977 previously unreleased)	Rarities	02:33
Moral Support	Chasing Rainbows	Insanity	04:20
Interpol	Ursula (At Warsaw International)	ST	06:35
Men Without Hats	Ideas for Walls	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:27
The Front	News to You	Underworld	05:11
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	I Tie My Shoes	Ohama aka The White Album	05:58
Images In Vogue	Call it Love	In The House	03:51
Extras	No Generation	Bit Parts	02:33
Bündock	Cowboy	Société Anonyme	03:46
I Braineater	Songs for the Masses	I Here, Where You	03:43
Spoons	Dropped Dishes	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:58
Streetcar Named Desire	Illustrated Man	Life Begins	05:25
Villains	Laugh it Out	Go Crazy	03:54
A Day in Paris	Too Tired	Prey	03:34
Direktive 17	Don’t Pass Me By	ST (EP)	05:07
Reasons	The Fall	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:59
Glamorcult	Pins & Needles	A Price To Paris	03:16
Breeding Ground	In the Sun	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:22
Moev	Ophelia	Dusk and Desire	03:59
Shock Culture	Brave New World	ST (EP)	03:14
I Braineater	Alone	I Here, Where You	02:41
Interpol	When Rock 'n' Roll Was in the Hole	ST	02:26
Palace at 4 a.m.	Young and Italian	Untamed World	03:16
Rational Youth	No More and No Less	Heredity	04:06
Handful of Snowdrops	Immortals (1985)	Mort en direct	08:24
Government	Zippers of Fire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:05
Cannon Heath Down	Light Your Eyes	Heart-Throb Companion	03:06
Kinetic Ideals	Fire	Reason (EP)	05:54
Ceramic Hello	Climatic Nouveaux	The Absence of a Canary	03:57
Cardboard Brains	Have You Seen The Boy In The Gutter With The Broken Mind?	Live At The Edge	02:05
Fictions	Don't Look Down	ST	02:31
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Robots in the Cellar	Space and Time	04:06
The Hurt	Engaged	Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)	03:11
Glamorcult	Manhattan Sunrise	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:24
Deserters	Protection	ST	03:20
K	A Thousand Years	Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)	04:13
Shock Culture	Something to Dream	ST (EP)	04:03
Living End (1)	All Mine	ST	03:08
Bruce PM	Radios and Cameras	Makeshift	03:58
Volts	Words on the Wind	Plugged In	02:48
Numbers	Won't You Call	Add Up	03:11
Oui	You Make Me High	Oui	04:41
Glamatron	Continentals	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	04:44
Moev	Sweet Nothings	Dusk and Desire	04:33
Age of Mirrors	Somewhere in Arabia	Screenplay	03:37
Martha And The Muffins	Saigon	Metro Music	04:23
Kaméléon	Genocide genethliaque	ST	04:03
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Drama	Got to Get off the Earth	Loneliness	03:06
Salty Seamen	One Chance Left	In The Groove At Last	02:33
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush (Bonus Track - 1991 unreleased remix)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:27
Psyche	The Influence	The Influence	04:17
Numbers	Can't Take it	Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it	03:42
Bobby and Synthia	Queen Street	thirty-six hours (EP)	04:56
Benjamin Russell	Gentle Charms	Madman	01:48
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Feelings Feel	Ohama aka The White Album	02:57
Figures At Dawn	Love Will Know	ST	03:50
Jon Mullane	One More Chance (for u)	Following Yesterday	04:29
Velveteens	Tired of the Beat	Tall House (EP)	03:30
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Exit From a Dream	04:54
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Dead Dogs	Spunker	02:32
Rex Chainbelt	Mon Ami	Foreign Movie	02:22
Pointed Sticks	The Real Thing	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:31
Jon Mullane	Somebody	Following Yesterday	03:15
Rational Youth	In Your Eyes	Heredity	03:13
Lawn	Reconsider Baby	Peace in the Valley	03:58
Hot Tip	My Shoes	Stop All Motion	03:52
NEO A4	If it Was You	ST	04:41
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Shadow Love	Space and Time	04:38
John Young Paul	The Boulevards of Hope	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:37
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Killer Punk	Space and Time	02:42
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Age of Reason(able Pleasure)	White Guilt	04:42
Compilation	Winston Hancock - Girls, Girls	No Pedestrians	03:15
Shanghai Lil	Nirvana - Oh What a Night	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:57
Compilation	Steve Wood - It's Not That Easy	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:45
FM109	Disappearing of the Sun	ST	03:54
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Let Them Eat Static	Midnite News	04:37
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Your Face	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:16
BAMFF	The Uncanny	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:50
Austra	The Beast	Feel it Break	04:02
Land of Giants	Key to Your Heart	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	02:50
James Harcourt	Emotional Blackmail	Emotional Blackmail	02:21
Direktive 17	Run With Me	ST (EP)	04:35
Kinetic Ideals	Together	A Personal View (EP)	05:54
The Idles	Crush	The Idles Demo	04:17

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Kultur - Kultur

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The Idles - The Idles Demo

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Hunger Project - Demo 1982

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Hunger Project - The Same Inside b/w Assembly

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Boys Brigade - Interview with Boys Brigade and Producer Geddy Lee

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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Voice - Anno Di Voce

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Klō - Demo 1981

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Klō - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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Klō - Demo 1982

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Beach Punks - She Got Body Talk

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Hush - Replay

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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The Scene (2) - Only in Paradise

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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Jon Mullane - Following Yesterday

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Awake The Echoes - Normal Life

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No Comment - Wondering b/w Honesty

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Entrance System - Imperfect Image

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Shock Culture - ST (EP)

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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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