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
Rave Revues	Long Time Coming	Long Time Coming b/w Rules Of Play (picture sleeve)	04:11
Psyche	Illusion	The Influence	04:26
ACTORS	Bury Me	It Will Come to You	03:28
Drastic Measures	Silk Stockings	ST	02:38
Government	Fumigators	Electric Eye	04:27
Benjamin Russell	Boffo	Madman	02:12
Rave Revues	Nightmares	Voices	03:36
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	New Heroin	03:00
Carbon Unit	The Marsh	The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)	02:45
Scott Matthews	Viewing Nonevents	Boats in Rivers	03:56
Philip Rambow	Snakes And Ladders	Jungle Law	03:52
Timothy Chipman	Old Shoes, New Dreams	Ghost Parade	01:33
B-Sides	No Can Do	Red to Black	03:00
Moral Lepers	Shadow	Turn to Stone	03:03
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Where Do You Call Home?	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:46
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	The Swimmer	ST	02:30
Cinebar	Venus	Another Fine Day	03:43
Psyche	The Dark Pool	The Influence	04:54
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heer Comes the Future	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:50
Boys Brigade	Exodus	ST	03:45
Spoons	Words Will Smash Walls	Static In Transmission	04:29
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind (OHMix)	Space and Time	04:55
Boys Brigade	Portrait	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	07:45
Images In Vogue	She's a Garden	Educated Man	02:48
Martha And The Muffins	Suburban Dream	Trance and Dance	03:27
Iko	Approach on Tokyo	83	05:15
DeMars	Out of Sight	Stories from between the Walls	05:25
Drastic Measures	Prelude	ST	01:09
Figures At Dawn	Distance Through Darkness	ST	03:10
Government	I Don't Really Care	Electric Eye	04:04
Popular Front	Puppet	Doomsday Army b/w Puppet	03:17
Images In Vogue	Talking to Myself	In The House	03:44
Philip Rambow	Beyond the Naked & the Dead	Jungle Law	03:11
Red Herring	If You Work for Me	Taste Tests	03:38
100 Flowers	The Naught	21st Guessing	03:56
Eight Seconds	We Set Him Free	Big Houses	05:04
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
DeMars	Les enfants dans la lune	Les Télé-Têtes	02:54
Rational Youth	City of Night	Cold War Nightlife	04:02
Generra	Don’t Cut Me	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	03:57
NEO A4	Say This to Me	ST	03:31
Friendly Fire	I Saw Her Smile	Junior Senility EP	02:31
Blue Oil	Unwind	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:35
Taro	Driftin Away	The Line Is Fine b/w Driftin Away (picture sleeve)	03:20
Land of Giants	Security Squad	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
ACTORS	L'appel du vide	It Will Come to You	03:34
Martha And The Muffins	Motorbikin'	Trance and Dance	02:58
True Confessions	26264	ST	02:15
Palace at 4 a.m.	Young and Italian	Untamed World	03:16
Eight Seconds	Thorn in My Side	Big Houses	04:08
Glamorcult	Shadows of Regret	A Price To Paris	03:44
One Hand Clapping	The Moon is Blue	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	02:39
Scissors	Don't Call Me Chick	ST	02:17
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:41
Numbers	Sunday Afternoon	Add Up	03:39
Deserters	Thought Police	ST	04:08
Rational Youth	In Your Eyes	Heredity	03:13
Rational Youth	Dancing On The Berlin Wall (Remix)	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:34
Cardboard Brains	Is That Why?	Live At The Edge	03:28
Modernes Pickles	Life in Ancient Greece	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:19
John Young Paul	Surrender to the Void	The Life of Ermie Scub	04:05
Magic Dragon	Memories	Emotional Landscape	04:11
The Diodes	Curiosity Girl (1977 previously unreleased version)	Rarities	02:51
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Start	State of Her Shine	Hey You	03:12
Benjamin Russell	Orphans	Pop Modern(e)	03:35
The Front	Your Street	Underworld	04:10
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	New Heroin	05:20
Tim Ray	Preamble - One Last Look (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	06:21
Scissors	All This And More	ST	02:46
Rob Bryanton	Insiduous Trends	Alcohol And Other Drugs	04:47
Drastic Measures	Romanticon	ST	02:42
Drama	Feable	Loneliness	03:42
Darkroom	Proven Guilty	San Paku	03:32
The Scene (2)	Egos Trip	Only in Paradise	06:34
Darkroom	Tears Hold No Cure	San Paku	03:46
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Educated Man	03:54
Glamorcult	Cocktail Conversations	A Price To Paris	04:32
Land of Giants	Cannibal Dolls	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
Extras	The Watcher	The Watcher (EP)	05:18
B-Sides	Run and Hide	Red to Black	03:40
Popular Front (1)	This is the Rubicon	This is the Rubicon	04:59
A Neon Rome	Cums a Wolf	New Heroin	04:15
Start	Out of the Tube	Hey You	02:27
Living End (1)	Only When	ST	03:28
NEO A4	If it Was You	ST	04:41
Compilation	Steve Wood - Black and Whites	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:06
The Diodes	Polaroid	Action-Reaction	02:37
Klō	Weirdo	Demo 1981	04:01
Neon	Indulgence With a Vengeance	ST (EP)	03:58
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:04
B-Sides	She's a Raver	Red to Black	02:36
Spoons	Smiling in Winter	Arias & Symphonies	04:05
Modernes Pickles	Possessed in the City	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:28
Philip Rambow	Creature Comforts	Jungle Law	02:28
Spice	Just a Little Bit	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	02:17
Compilation	Winston Hancock & The Changes - Stood Up	The Circuit	02:42
Martha And The Muffins	Monotone	Metro Music	02:46
Golden Calgarians	Savage Love	Savage Love	04:16
Breeding Ground	Love Rectangle	Obscurity And Flair	04:08

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Joe Naylor - I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights

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Modernes Pickles - Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985

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Modernes Pickles - We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White

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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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Rob Bryanton - Alcohol And Other Drugs

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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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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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