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
Palace at 4 a.m.	Sex - Death	Untamed World	03:16
Diodes	Mercenary Flight (1978 Alternate Version) (CD only)	Rarities	03:21
Glamorcult	Fusion (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:23
Spoons	Out of My Hands	Talkback	03:19
NEO A4	Understand	ST	04:01
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't You Think I'm Kiddin' Ya	Spunker	02:51
Instructions	Wicked Heart	ST	04:02
Handful of Snowdrops	Second by Second (Bonus Track)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:47
Images In Vogue	Travel	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	05:34
Conning Tower	Indian Dancing	Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under	04:40
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lola	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:08
James Harcourt	Eye of the Needle	Emotional Blackmail	02:54
Moev	Photos	Dusk and Desire	04:50
Bumpers	I Watch You Go	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:34
Border	Black and White	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:01
Kaméléon	Pique-nique (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	02:22
Modernettes	(I Can Only Give You) Everything	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:22
Instructions	The Factory	ST	03:41
Red Herring	If You Work for Me	Taste Tests	03:38
Future Yanx	Suite For A Nation	Suite For A Nation (picture sleeve)	03:12
Martha And The Muffins	Jets Seem Slower in London's Skies	This Is The Ice Age	02:36
Braineaters	Kid Stuff	Planet X	01:33
Psyche	The Sundial	The Influence	03:38
Blue Peter	Cloak and Dagger	Test Patterns For Living	03:45
Oui	On Our Way	Oui	03:36
Martha And The Muffins	Sins of Children	Danseparc	05:37
UJ3RK5	The Locator	ST (EP)	03:11
Psyche	Lord Unleashed	Unveiling The Secret	03:22
Annabelle's Room	Hopscotch	ST	04:41
Tenants	Reach Out	Visions of Our Future	03:29
Cinebar	Another Fine Day	Another Fine Day	03:37
Modernes Pickles	Colors	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:18
Compilation	Pat Grehan - Fury Girl	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:13
B-Sides	B-Side Shuffle	Red to Black	02:25
Drama	Come On Over	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	02:57
NEO A4	Don't Believe	The Warmer Side of You	04:50
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Exit From a Dream	04:54
Spoons	The Rhythm	Talkback	04:06
Deserters	Protection	ST	03:20
Velveteens	Love as a Rule	Tall House (EP)	03:03
Eight Seconds	No Picasso	Big Houses	05:04
Modernettes	Femme Fatale	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:53
Martha And The Muffins	Terminal Twilight	Metro Music	04:41
Sex Church	Dull Light	Growing Over	03:42
Degrees of Freedom	August is an Angel	China	04:27
Compilation	Moist & Tender - You're On My Way	Toronto Calling	02:42
Land of Giants	I Will	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:44
BB Gabor	Moscow Drug Club	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Moscow Drug Club (picture sleeve)	04:26
Scott Matthews	Navigation	Boats in Rivers	03:33
Moev	Rotting Geraniums	Zimmerkampf	04:51
Second Thoughts	Wound Up	Integrity b/w Wound Up	02:50
A Day in Paris	Goodbye	Prey	03:24
Breeding Ground	Reflections (In a Coffee Cup)	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:21
Diodes	Polaroid	Action-Reaction	02:37
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:41
Handful of Snowdrops	Mort en direct (1989)	Mort en direct	03:38
Motive	Don’t You Know	Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)	03:21
Direktive 17	Don’t Pass Me By	ST (EP)	05:07
Palace at 4 a.m.	Young and Italian	Untamed World	03:16
Handful of Snowdrops	Face to Face	Land of the Damned	06:09
Chris Evans & The Quarts	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	03:36
Spoons	Like a Memory	Bridges Over Borders	03:47
Rex Chainbelt	Foreign Movie	Foreign Movie	02:42
DeMars	Torn to Pieces	Songs From Between The Walls	03:35
Ceramic Hello	M - EX	The Absence of a Canary	00:23
Martha And The Muffins	One Day in Paris	This Is The Ice Age	04:20
Frigidaires	Three Cool Cats	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:12
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Thin Lines	Midway b/w Thin Lines	05:53
Welcome Home	In This Life	In This Life b/w Top of the World (picture sleeve)	04:59
Edsells	She Escaped	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	04:22
Odd Man Out	World of My Own	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	03:35
Salty Seamen	Sweet Yolanda	In The Groove At Last	03:30
The Front	The Joke Was On Me	Gina's at a Party	04:03
Age of Mirrors	Crazy After Dark	Screenplay	04:56
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Ross Angeles	Empty Amour	Salute	03:19
The Vox	Bored of the 80's	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	02:37
The Front	Your Street	Underworld	04:10
e	Idol Time	The Levitation Syndrome	03:26
100 Flowers	Haunted	21st Guessing	05:09
Living End (1)	All Mine	ST	03:08
This Fear	Haunting Me	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:23
Johnny Zhivago	New Things	Microalbum	03:19
Oui	Information	Oui	04:41
Drama	Loneliness	Loneliness	03:28
Roland Blinn	Tense	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	02:27
Glamorcult	Cocktail Conversations	A Price To Paris	04:32
Nasty Habits	Cleopatra	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:27
Philip Rambow	The Manison on the Hill	Jungle Law	04:25
Images In Vogue	Foreign Affairs	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:59
Breeding Ground	Cerememony of Love	Obscurity And Flair	04:43
Corsage	Big Bang	ST	03:42
Kinetic Ideals	Maze of Ways	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	04:09
BB Gabor	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry)	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	02:41
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	Heredity	05:17
Friendly Fire	Beverly Blue	Junior Senility EP	03:52
Images In Vogue	Awaken Me	In The House	03:47
Compilation	Glamatron - Pop Tarts	The Circuit	02:53
Null Set	Rubber Wings	New Job (EP)	03:31

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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DeMars - Songs From Between The Walls

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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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