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
Rex Chainbelt	Allies	Foreign Movie	03:47
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	02:04
I Before E	Power of Reason	Power of Reason b/w Cocktails	02:23
Degrees of Freedom	The Sound of a Jealous Heart	China	03:36
Martha And The Muffins	One Day in Paris	This Is The Ice Age	04:20
Benjamin Russell	Power of Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:37
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
Glamorcult	Time Is Running Out	Shadows From The Past	03:16
e	The Fall	The Levitation Syndrome	03:15
Lawn	Reconsider Baby	Peace in the Valley	03:58
Modernettes	Won't Have To Worry	Gone..But Not Forgiven	02:22
Todd Stevens	Stranger on the Run	This Way! (picture sleeve)	03:26
Friendly Fire	I Saw Her Smile	Junior Senility EP	02:31
Figures At Dawn	Bridges Burning	ST	03:36
39 Steps	City of Vice [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:25
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Promise	ST	04:31
Images In Vogue	Flashing Black	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:30
Edsells	Don't Wanna Go to School	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	03:06
Psyche	Uncivilized	Mystery Hotel	03:41
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	So Far	04:04
I Braineater	7Teen	Artist, Poet, Thief	02:38
Robert Armes	Nearly Out of Control	Nearly Out of Control b/w Radio Active	03:35
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lonely Heart Dance	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:09
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
Spoons	Smiling in Winter	Arias & Symphonies	04:05
Ross Angeles	Salute	Salute	01:53
Glamorcult	Mine Is The Maiden	The Stone Sessions	04:16
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
Drastic Measures	Prelude	ST	01:09
Scenics	Farm Reports and Test Patterns	New Part In Town	03:50
Fictions	Dimestore Romance	ST	03:44
Johnny Faith	Pure Energy	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:55
Cardboard Brains	Is That Why?	Live At The Edge	03:28
Psyche	Nocturnal Passenger	Mystery Hotel	06:07
Government	Paranoid Downtown Funk Pt. 2	How Many Fingers?	02:32
Government	On the Prowl	Electric Eye	04:39
The Front	Hit and Run	Underworld	04:14
Glamorcult	I Tell Him	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:00
Lawn	As Yet	Peace in the Valley	02:58
Braineaters	Wrong World	Planet X	02:35
Doppler Bros.	Leaving Home	Totally Impractical	02:21
Hygiene Club	Sea Monster	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	03:10
The Play	Atlantic City	Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City	03:30
Glen Meadmore	Lovin' In My Oven	Chicken & Biscuits	04:07
Kinetic Ideals	Absurdity	Reason (EP)	05:23
Eight Seconds	Happy Endings	Big Houses	03:46
Bobby and Synthia	The Music Stopped	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:36
State Of Mind	I'll Be Yours	I'll Be Yours b/w The Dark Side (picture sleeve)	03:29
Pukka Orchestra	Listen to the Radio	ST	03:48
Rex Chainbelt	Fighter Plane	Foreign Movie	02:14
The Front	Twice Shy	Underworld	03:37
Decade of Dreams	I've Never Felt Like This	Wild Colloquial	02:47
Glamorcult	Table Thirty	Early Glamour	03:38
Johnny Faith	Party time	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	01:42
e	Coincidence	Reaction b/w Coincidence	03:06
I Braineater	I Am	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:07
Age of Mirrors	This Double Life	Screenplay	03:43
e	Reaction	Reaction b/w Coincidence	03:06
John Young Paul	Ermie has Feelers	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:25
Handful of Snowdrops	As Thought Outside but Looking In (Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:06
Living End (1)	Anaesthesia Grin	ST	03:29
Diodes	Lost in the Dark	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
NEO A4	In My Life	The Warmer Side of You	03:19
e	Idol Time	The Levitation Syndrome	03:26
Blue Peter	Same Old Place	Test Patterns For Living	03:12
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	On the Line	ST	04:09
Volts	Loneliness in the Air Age	Plugged In	02:43
Rolf Kempf	Bye Bye Baby	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:36
Dream Child	Heaven Knows	Heaven Knows b/w Luv On the Line	04:54
Kinetic Ideals	Together	A Personal View (EP)	05:54
Fictions	Better	ST	02:31
Philip Rambow	The Manison on the Hill	Jungle Law	04:25
Scenics	In the Summer	Underneath the Door	03:53
Family Plot	Just One Slip	Convictions	04:04
Compilation	Don Bregg - Sounds So Nice	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:51
Spoons	Clever	Bridges Over Borders	03:39
Rational Youth	Heredity	Heredity	04:18
Modern Minds	Slap in the Face	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
Melinite	Seasoning	Push The Button And Run!	01:23
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Your Face	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:16
Scenics	One Comes Closer	Underneath the Door	03:18
True Confessions	Smokey's Gonna Twist	ST	02:25
39 Steps	Jump on the Death Train	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:02
Instructions	Cleek	ST	02:56
Land of Giants	I Got You Babe	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:17
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
Spoons	Camera Shy	Talkback	04:07
Vis-A-Vis	Dance With Me	Heart and Soul	03:56
Philip Rambow	Jessica	Jungle Law	04:00
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Of Whales	Midnite News	06:22
Carbon Unit	The Marsh	The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)	02:45
Magic Dragon	(White Monkey) Under The Volcano	Emotional Landscape	07:16
Moev	Ophelia	Dusk and Desire	03:59
Strange Advance	Love Games	Worlds Away	03:51
Diodes	Roses and Thorns	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:22
Start	Stereo	Hey You	03:16
Graphics	Sleepdancer	Sleepdancer b/w Our Planet Ocean	03:41
The Presence	Blown Away	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	02:15
Lawn	Don`t Ask	Peace in the Valley	03:43
Fictions	Do it With the Lights On	ST	03:07

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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Bonus Boys - Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time

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Cry - ST

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Friendly Fire - Junior Senility EP

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