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
The Patterns	Afraid to Touch	Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen	03:57
Erect	Action Reaction	Consequence of Life	02:57
Compilation	Jenerentola - Lagata (Jenerentola)	Strange Pleasures EP	06:32
Iko	Model Type A	83	05:08
B-Sides	No Can Do	Red to Black	03:00
Land of Giants	I Will	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:44
Breeding Ground	Epic	Tales of Adventure (EP)	06:43
Compilation	Ballyhoo - Love (Emotion + Desire) (Miguel G, Marco T., and Nick T.)	Strange Pleasures EP	03:21
UJ3RK5	Name Pavlov Ring Bell	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	05:28
Austra	Darken Her Horse	Feel it Break	05:21
Tame & Talking	The Hole	ST	03:11
Rational Youth	Bang On	Heredity	04:11
Wrestlers	G.T.O.	ST	03:32
Moral Lepers	Beryl Bean	Turn to Stone	02:41
Low Fun	Words We Left Behind	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	03:41
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - Essay - Me Dad	Toronto Calling	06:06
Bobby and Synthia	Big Tits	thirty-six hours (EP)	03:44
Spoons	Ice Age	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:08
The Scene (2)	Come of Age	Only in Paradise	05:36
Handful of Snowdrops	From One Place to Another (1990)	Mort en direct	05:11
Scenics	Garthuson	New Part In Town	02:16
Blue Peter	Factory Living	Test Patterns For Living	02:50
Eight Seconds	Where's Bula	Almacantar	04:38
Strange Advance	Reprise "Worlds Away"	Worlds Away	01:35
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News	Midnite News	03:15
Dada	If I'm Blind	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:46
Corsage	West Coast Highway (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:57
Benjamin Russell	Shadows Dancing	Pop Modern(e)	04:15
Chemicals	Run and Hide	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	02:49
Broken Silence	Nightstalking	Nightstalking b/w Through the Glass (picture sleeve)	03:47
Austra	Shoot the Water	Feel it Break	03:22
Jon Mullane	Open Up to Me	Following Yesterday	03:58
Barking Boys	High Life - Low Life	The Yes Girls	02:46
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
The Voxx	Flower Boy	Flower Boy b/w Flower Boy DVB	03:01
Degrees of Freedom	Risk	China	03:46
Moev	Cracked Mirror	Cracked Mirror (EP)	05:57
Eight Seconds	Commissioner St.	Almacantar	04:40
Glamorcult	S.O.S.	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:31
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Someone Should Have Told Me (Behind Black Gloves)	Space and Time	04:39
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Drama	Space Age Punks	Loneliness	02:37
Johnny Faith	Standing On the Red Line	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:52
I Braineater	1980 More	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:57
Utopiate	Actions or Misguidance	You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance	03:06
Andrew Matheson	Tender is the Night	Monterey Shoes	05:51
David Raven & the Escorts	One Way Love	David Raven And The Escorts	02:36
Tower Bridge	Perfection	Perfection b/w Out of My Mind Girl (picture sleeve)	04:07
Iko	Approach on Tokyo	83	05:15
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Pre-release	03:30
Spoons	Red Light	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:44
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Golden Calgarians	Ballad of Blood Beach	Savage Love	04:30
Psyche	Insatiable	Mystery Hotel	04:41
Chemicals	Out of My Mind	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	03:11
Instructions	Learn from Computers	ST	04:15
Lou Champagne System	Another Dimension	No Visible Means	04:50
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Planet Nine	Exit From a Dream	05:21
Kinetic Ideals	In a Second	A Personal View (EP)	06:59
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:14
Handful of Snowdrops	Scream Cry or Fall	Land of the Damned	05:06
Glamorcult	A Dream Girl To Me	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:23
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Stop	Spunker	02:57
Breeding Ground	In the Sun	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:22
Bunny & the Lakers	Yalps From the Alpa	Numbers	02:35
Figures At Dawn	Close My Eyes	ST	04:54
Home Grown	Thoughts of You	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:11
Philip Rambow	Jungle Law	Jungle Law	03:15
Joe Naylor	I Hate Fluorescent Lights	I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights	03:18
Vital Sines	Erik the Generik	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:45
Timothy Chipman	Joy to the World	Ghost Parade	01:32
Rational Youth	Dancing On The Berlin Wall (Remix)	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:34
Fictions	Won't Wash Away	ST	03:20
Philip Rambow	Magnificient Obsession	Jungle Law	03:39
Rational Youth	Saturdays in Silesia	Cold War Nightlife	04:21
Drama	Hidden Melodies	Loneliness	03:54
True Confessions	Mating Games	ST	03:06
Braineaters	Modern Man	Planet X	02:15
The Front	Treacherous	Underworld	04:42
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't Look Now	Spunker	03:44
Glamorcult	Interlude	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:31
Billy Butt & The Brats	Surveillance	Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No	03:21
Barking Boys	Too Hot In Here	The Yes Girls	04:39
Salty Seamen	Rings Around Uranus	In The Groove At Last	02:18
The Scene (2)	Soul Spectrum	Only in Paradise	05:09
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama aka The White Album	02:44
Living End (1)	In Your Dreams	ST	02:48
Scenics	In the Summer	New Part In Town	04:22
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Space and Time	05:20
Compilation	Mike Peters - Trucker's Paradise	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Martha And The Muffins	Revenge (Against the World)	Metro Music	03:31
Glamorcult	Would It Be Over	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:28
BB Gabor	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry)	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	02:41
Scenics	Walk in the Desert	Underneath the Door	01:32
Iko	Elevator	83	03:56
Handful of Snowdrops	When Comes Daylight	Land of the Damned	05:01
Mobile Clones	Abrasive Air	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	02:24
Neurons	New Location	Midnight Meetings b/w New Location	00:07
NEO A4	Standing	ST	03:50
Null Set	Judgement Days	New Job (EP)	02:19

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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DeMars - Songs 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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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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Channel Five - ST (EP)

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

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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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