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	Travel	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:20
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lonely Heart Dance	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:09
Strange Advance	She Controls Me	Worlds Away	02:59
Benjamin Russell	Power of Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:37
Age of Mirrors	Crazy After Dark	Screenplay	04:56
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Stop	Spunker	02:57
Golden Calgarians	Galaxina	Savage Love	03:06
FM109	Hold On	ST	03:37
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	A Neon Rome	03:06
Nevermen	Living in the Past	The Monitor LP	04:17
Martha And The Muffins	Motorbikin'	Trance and Dance	02:58
DeMars	Le fou sur l'île	Les Télé-Têtes	04:04
True Confessions	Modern Personality	ST	04:12
Lou Champagne System	Do Something	No Visible Means	04:34
A Neon Rome	Cums A Wolf	A Neon Rome	04:15
Andrew Matheson	Eyes of Harlem	Monterey Shoes	07:44
Carbon Unit	The Martian Hop	The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)	03:48
Eight Seconds	Sincere	Almacantar	04:27
Cottage Industry	Leader	The Winter's Tale	03:37
Glamorcult	Lonely Faces	The Stone Sessions	03:12
Glamorcult	The Light We Will Hold	A Price To Paris	04:23
Boys Brigade	Saigon	ST	04:28
Compilation	Zro4 - Blood	No Pedestrians	03:29
Spoons	I've Been Here Before	Vertigo Tango	03:58
Bündock	Forbidden Zone	Société Anonyme	03:44
Rikki & The Rokkits	They Never See	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:23
Rob Bryanton	Everybody Feels Some Pain	Alcohol And Other Drugs	04:45
Compilation	Ballyhoo - Love (Emotion + Desire) (Miguel G, Marco T., and Nick T.)	Strange Pleasures EP	03:21
The Front	News to You	Underworld	05:11
Villains	Long, Short, Skinny Or Fat	Go Crazy	02:56
Salty Seamen	Club Hot de Paris	In The Groove At Last	02:03
Benjamin Russell	Rock It	Pop Modern(e)	04:06
Oui	Intelligence	Oui	03:56
Glen Meadmore	Gotta Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:04
Government	It Must be God-Downtown	Electric Eye	02:52
Spice	Just a Little Bit	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	02:17
Government	How Many Fingers?	How Many Fingers?	07:21
Compilation	Rent Boys Inc. - Beauty is Above the Law	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	02:45
Rex Chainbelt	Allies	Foreign Movie	03:47
Klō	The Parking Lot Song	No Money b/w The Parking Lot Song	02:08
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Space and Time	04:49
Eight Seconds	Moving Day	Big Houses	03:45
Diodes	Terminal Rock (1978 Alternate Version) (CD only)	Rarities	03:21
Martha And The Muffins	Terminal Twilight	Metro Music	04:41
Glamorcult	Distant Memories	The Stone Sessions	04:07
Volts	As the Radio Died	Plugged In	03:35
Decade of Dreams	Tra la la	Wild Colloquial	02:58
Spoons	2,000 Years	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:18
Vis-A-Vis	I am the Night	Heart and Soul	03:40
Glamorcult	If Only You Knew	Early Glamour	04:13
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Compilation	Colin Davison - Love's Gone	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Strange Advance	Sister Radio	Worlds Away	05:20
Handful of Snowdrops	Still We Live (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:37
Novels	I'm Being Followed	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	03:02
Compilation	Itchy And The Crabs - Argy Bargy	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	05:36
DeMars	Les télé-têtes	Les Télé-Têtes	04:41
The Front	Underworld	Underworld	03:59
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Midnite News	08:11
Popular Front	Flipside	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	04:57
The Play	Whatever it Takes	Running Out of Time b/w Whatever it Takes	03:25
Rave Revues	Have You	Voices	04:01
I Braineater	Sacred Cow	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:03
Living End (1)	Better Pictures	ST	02:53
Norda	Snakes And Ladders	West Over Seas	02:51
Rational Youth	Freeze	Heredity	05:00
One Hand Clapping	Bad Pianos	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	01:26
Rational Youth	City of Night	Cold War Nightlife	04:02
Diodes	Polaroid	Action-Reaction	02:37
Dream Child	Luv On the Line	Heaven Knows b/w Luv On the Line	04:11
Iko	Elevator	83	03:56
Handful of Snowdrops	White Dominoes (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:11
Within Gothic Towers	Day Dreaming	Within Gothic Towers	03:14
Popular Front	Christian Education	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	04:29
Rex Chainbelt	Foreign Movie	Foreign Movie	02:42
Mettle	Evening Ocean	ST	02:58
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower and the Hippies	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:48
Benjamin Russell	Miracle	Pop Modern(e)	05:28
Rarefaction	Abstract Minds	Ordinary Man	04:56
Catherine	Operating System	Operating System b/w Operating System	03:03
Living End (1)	Anaesthesia Grin	ST	03:29
BAMFF	The Uncanny	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:50
Martha And The Muffins	What People Do for Fun	Danseparc	04:02
Sex Church	Put Away	Growing Over	02:00
Moev	Sea-Missile Motel	Dusk and Desire	06:23
Austra	Beat and the Pulse	Feel it Break	04:55
Faded Films	East of the Asylum	Faded Years	04:46
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:04
Kinetic Ideals	Angular Sky	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	06:57
Deserters	Innervisions	ST	03:34
Diodes	Edge of Darkness	Action-Reaction	03:10
Einstein	Nasti Nastassja	Sex and Science	04:35
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Simple Man	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:16
Glamorcult	Live For Today	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:38
Absolute 9	Stop Thinking	ST	03:14
Diodes	Tired Of Waking Up Tired (original demo 1978)	Rarities	03:29
Ross Angeles	Hip Hip	Salute	02:21
Scissors	Nadine	ST	02:03
Absolute 9	Fence	Love and Work b/w Fence	03:00
Rex Chainbelt	Talk It Over	Foreign Movie	02:15

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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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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Vex - DNA

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Tim Ray - History Lessons 1978-1984

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Popular Front - Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious

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Popular Front - Doomsday Army b/w Puppet

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Klō - No Money b/w The Parking Lot Song

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Klō - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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Klō - Fun b/w Weirdo

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Spoons - Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party

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Spoons - New Day New World

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Spoons - Static In Transmission

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Spoons - Vertigo Tango

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Spoons - Bridges Over Borders

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Spoons - Talkback

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Spoons - Nova Heart b/w Symmetry

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Spoons - Arias & Symphonies

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Spoons - Stick Figure Neighbourhood

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Tim Ray - ST

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Voice - Anno Di Voce

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Hygiene Club - Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary

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