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
Mobile Clones	Abrasive Air	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	02:24
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Over Mountains	Ohama aka The White Album	03:14
Compilation	Arrows - Treat Her Right	Toronto Calling	02:52
Thieves	Kopper & Iron	I See Red	03:38
One Hand Clapping	Bad Pianos	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	01:26
Scenics	I Killed Marx	Underneath the Door	04:29
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't You Think I'm Kiddin' Ya	Spunker	02:51
Government	On The Prowl (Reprise)	Electric Eye	02:36
Einstein	Man-Child	Sex and Science	03:38
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Oui	You Make Me High	Oui	04:41
Spoons	Trade Winds	Arias & Symphonies	02:15
The Diodes	Polaroid	Action-Reaction	02:37
Glamorcult	The Light	Atlantis Under the Sea	03:49
Living End (1)	Naive	ST	02:25
Motive	Don’t You Know	Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)	03:21
Benjamin Russell	Angel of Mercy	Madman	02:45
Vital Sines	Break the Chains	Big Dark Dreams	02:53
Timothy Chipman	China Doll	Ghost Parade	02:31
The Diodes	Heat or the Beat	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:38
Start	Kids in the USA	Hey You	03:17
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Pumpin' For Jill	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:02
Klō	You're Chic	Demo 1981	05:34
Images In Vogue	King's Service	In The House	03:25
Within Gothic Towers	I Will Lead You	Within Gothic Towers	04:58
Tim Ray	Hate (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:22
Spoons	Breaking In	Static In Transmission	04:34
Cannon Heath Down	Light Your Eyes	Heart-Throb Companion	03:06
Spoons	Annita	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:21
Eight Seconds	Sincere	Almacantar	04:27
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	So Far	04:04
DeMars	Even for All Those Years	Stories from between the Walls	04:39
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	I Tie My Shoes	Midnite News	05:25
Blue Oil	Sardine City	Blue Oil (1981-83)	01:49
Rarefaction	Abstract Minds	Ordinary Man	04:56
Blueprints	I Fell Down	Stare 01	03:35
Pukka Orchestra	Knocking On Open Doors	The Palace Of Memeory	03:56
Glamorcult	Interlude	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:30
Suns of One	Freedom Time	Freedom Time	04:02
I Braineater	I Am	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:07
Klō	Baby Wants a Baby	Demo 1981	04:18
Handful of Snowdrops	A Short Story (1985)	Mort en direct	07:10
Barking Boys	Ghost Story	The Yes Girls	04:09
Inner Sanction	White Boy Rap	Dancematic-Automatic	05:58
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Mr. Crystal	Space and Time	05:32
Bleu Néon	Survivance	Cité Promise	08:24
Rolf Kempf	One More Time	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:26
Velveteens	Flies	Tall House (EP)	04:09
Rarefaction	All the Broken Seams	Ordinary Man	03:44
James Harcourt	You Make My Thing Ping	Emotional Blackmail	02:48
Hunger Project	Imitation of Life	Demo 1982	06:24
Extras	Zambando	The Road to Zambando	04:17
Tribal Earth	Interaction - Reaction	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	05:49
Tenants	Forget About Forgetting	ST	03:53
Numbers	Won't You Call	Add Up	03:11
Hush	Now Reality	Replay	04:41
Bumpers	Ian	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	03:26
Martha And The Muffins	Sinking Land	Metro Music	05:28
NEO A4	Is This It	The Warmer Side of You	03:32
Tim Ray	Bonus Track	History Lessons 1978-1984	01:17
Modernettes	Red Nails	View From The Bottom (EP)	03:02
Benjamin Russell	Teresa	Madman	04:15
Red Herring	Taste Tests	Taste Tests	02:50
The Play	Atlantic City	Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City	03:30
Benjamin Russell	Gonna be a Woman Soon	Madman	02:54
Bora Bora	Starting Over	Fashion Passion b/w Starting Over	04:23
Dream Child	Luv On the Line	Heaven Knows b/w Luv On the Line	04:11
Glen Meadmore	Girlene	Chicken & Biscuits	05:07
John Bell and the Strange	Taking You Home in a Taxi	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	03:24
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:06
Glamorcult	Past Glory	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Images In Vogue	In the House (Single Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	03:14
Glamatron	Facial Saviour	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	05:02
39 Steps	City of Vice [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:25
Degrees of Freedom	August is an Angel	China	04:27
Frost In June	Catch the Light	Catch The Light	03:58
39 Steps	Jump on the Death Train	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:02
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Midnite News	08:11
Drastic Measures	T.N.T.	ST	03:51
Compilation	Jennifer Cauley - In Every Dream	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:45
ACTORS	Slaves: Part Time Punks Session	Part Time Punks Session EP	03:34
Family Plot	Old Refrain	Convictions	04:09
Villains	Long, Short, Skinny Or Fat	Go Crazy	02:56
Handful of Snowdrops	The Scariest Notion (1st Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:08
Martha And The Muffins	Whatever Happened to Radio Valve Road?	Danseparc	03:00
Blueprints	Tribute to a Fool	Stare 01	03:50
The Front	Treacherous	Underworld	04:42
John Lutz T.	Kiss And Tell	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	02:10
Lorne Ranger	I Want to be a Doorman	I Want to be a Doorman	04:02
Broken Tables	The Ruins	ST	05:50
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	05:12
Zipper	Slowtown Rats	Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll) b/w Slowtown Rats	02:51
Spoons	Be Alone Tonight	Bridges Over Borders	05:11
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Feelings Feel	Ohama aka The White Album	02:57
Timothy Chipman	Old Shoes, New Dreams	Ghost Parade	01:33
Degrees of Freedom	The Sound of a Jealous Heart	China	03:36
Drama	A Kiss Without Lust	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	03:12
DeMars	Moonshadow	Stories from between the Walls	06:28
Direktive 17	Don’t Pass Me By	ST (EP)	05:07
Sex Church	Waking Up	Growing Over	05:26

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - Blimkie

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Drama - Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)

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Drama - Loneliness

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Glamorcult - Atlantis Under the Sea

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Glamorcult - A Price To Paris

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Glamorcult - Shadows From The Past

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Glamorcult - Early Glamour

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Glamorcult - Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994

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Glamorcult - The Stone Sessions

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Glamorcult - Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)

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Glamorcult - Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude

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Glamorcult - Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)

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CosmaNat - Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)

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Channel 5 - ST (EP)

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ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever

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ACTORS - Part Time Punks Session EP

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ACTORS - Slaves (FM Attack RMX)

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ACTORS - Mining for Heart

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ACTORS - Acts of Worship

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ACTORS - One Hundred Years

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ACTORS - It Will Come to You

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ACTORS - Reanimated

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Bleu Néon - Cité Promise

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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Maurice & The Clichés - ST

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Maurice & The Clichés - Veronika

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Maurice & The Clichés - Soft Core

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Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

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Minutes From Downtown - ST

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