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
Zipper	Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll)	Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll) b/w Slowtown Rats	02:59
The Presence	Blown Away	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	02:15
DeMars	Les zoos arborifères	Les Télé-Têtes	03:09
John Young Paul	The Girl Spells Grief	The Life of Ermie Scub	01:38
Spoons	Capitol Hill	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:37
Moral Support	Closer to You	Insanity	03:19
Modernettes	The Rebel Kind	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:08
Handful of Snowdrops	The Scariest Notion (1st Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:08
Lawn	As Yet	Peace in the Valley	02:58
K	Sliding In	Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)	03:11
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	I Tie My Shoes	Midnite News	05:25
Barking Boys	Too Hot In Here	The Yes Girls	04:39
Compilation	Sigi Jonsson - Trying To Find Her	Toronto Calling	02:25
Moev	Common House	Zimmerkampf	03:27
Numbers	Sideways Elevator	Add Up	03:33
Rarefaction	All the Broken Seams	Ordinary Man	03:44
Degrees of Freedom	Call Me Midnight	China	04:51
Velveteens	Tired of the Beat	Tall House (EP)	03:30
Scissors	Wrecked My Car	ST	02:16
The Front	Treacherous	Underworld	04:42
Psyche	Misery	The Influence	04:06
Bündock	Cowboy	Société Anonyme	03:46
Magic Dragon	(White Monkey) Under The Volcano	Emotional Landscape	07:16
Benjamin Russell	Rock It	Pop Modern(e)	04:06
D.A.R.Y.L.	Time 2 Start Again	Time 2 Start Again b/w Time 2 Start Again (Garage Mix)	04:35
Breeding Ground	Tales of Adventure	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:14
Drastic Measures	T.N.T.	ST	03:51
Handful of Snowdrops	A Miracle	Land of the Damned	04:54
Spoons	For Tran	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:45
Eight Seconds	Thorn in My Side	Big Houses	04:08
Moral Support	Rising	Insanity	03:04
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Educated Man	03:54
Rex Chainbelt	Test Tube Baby	Foreign Movie	01:53
Moev	Sweet Nothings	Dusk and Desire	04:33
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	I Tie My Shoes	Ohama aka The White Album	05:58
Null Set	Judgement Days	New Job (EP)	02:19
Cottage Industry	Kulturkreise	The Winter's Tale	03:02
Timothy Chipman	Ghost Parade	Ghost Parade	02:25
Kaméléon	Smarties (1983)	Groupe électro-pop	04:54
Diodes	Tired Of Waking Up Tired (original demo 1978)	Rarities	03:29
Boys Brigade	Africa	ST	04:07
A Day in Paris	The Hill	Prey	04:38
Benjamin Russell	Angel of Mercy	Madman	02:45
Awake The Echoes	The Best Thing	Normal Life	02:38
Salt And the Choppers	Flounder	I And You b/w Flounder (picture sleeve)	03:01
Golden Calgarians	Vladivostok Rock	Savage Love	04:03
Lawn	Catwalk Slip	Peace in the Valley	03:24
Martha And The Muffins	Be Blase	Trance and Dance	02:42
Pukka Orchestra	This Sordid Thing Called Love	The Palace Of Memeory	04:17
Villains	Lovers	Go Crazy	03:03
Robert Armes	Radio Active	Nearly Out of Control b/w Radio Active	02:31
Novels	I'm Being Followed	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	03:02
Class Info	Come for Me	Inside	02:23
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	New Heroin	05:20
Glen Meadmore	Blissful Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:24
Austra	Darken Her Horse	Feel it Break	05:21
Mannequin Depressives	Erase It	Girls Are Evil	04:58
Volts	Can't Hold on Too Long	Plugged In	03:15
Scissors	Don't Call Me Chick	ST	02:17
Ralph Mashats	Irradies	Irradies b/w Empty Eyes (Fly My Way) (picture sleeve)	03:54
Family Plot	Swagger	Convictions	03:12
Kings	Run Shoes Running	Are Here	02:34
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cold War Nightlife	03:14
Odd Man Out	World of My Own	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	03:35
Salty Seamen	Too Late to Worry Now	In The Groove At Last	03:52
45's	Real Confused	On the Beach	02:15
Awake The Echoes	Turn That Bloody Noise Down	Normal Life	03:15
Scissors	All This And More	ST	02:46
Strange Advance	One Chance in a Million	Worlds Away	04:12
NEO A4	Say This to Me	ST	03:31
Compilation	The Secrets - All the Words	No Pedestrians	02:52
Extras	I’ll be Wanting You	The Road to Zambando	04:15
Interpol	Ursula (At Warsaw International)	ST	06:35
Jon Mullane	One More Chance (for u)	Following Yesterday	04:29
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	ST (mini album)	05:27
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Can't Find the Key	Music Industry Arts 1983	05:45
True Confessions	7-11 Heaven	ST	02:17
Melinite	Waiting 4-U	Push The Button And Run!	01:48
Bündock	Silhouette	Société Anonyme	04:06
Nasty Habits	Playing in the Danger Zone	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:07
Boys Brigade	Shadows	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	03:28
Within Gothic Towers	Fanfare To Flight	Within Gothic Towers	04:48
Corsage	West Coast Highway (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:57
Fictions	Shuffle	ST	02:39
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:49
Direktive 17	Don’t Pass Me By	ST (EP)	05:07
Dream Child	Luv On the Line	Heaven Knows b/w Luv On the Line	04:11
Entrance System	Imperfect Image	Imperfect Image	03:38
Bündock	Forbidden Zone	Société Anonyme	03:44
Strange Advance	Automatic Sighs	Worlds Away	04:41
Diodes	Behind Those Eyes (Aug 1977 Crash 'N' Burn Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	02:42
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Men Without Hats	Utter Space	Folk of the 80's (EP)	02:44
Mobile Clones	Abrasive Air	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	02:24
Degrees of Freedom	August is an Angel	China	04:27
DeMars	Le fou sur l'île	Les Télé-Têtes	04:04
Rave Revues	Everyone’s a Critic	Voices	06:45
B-Sides	Underground Radio Stars (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:40
Kaméléon	Insomnuit	ST	04:26
Secret Act	Northern Spy	My Neighbourhood	03:31

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Hunger Project - The Same Inside b/w Assembly

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Hunger Project - Demo 1982

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Klō - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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Beach Punks - She Got Body Talk

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Hush - Replay

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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The Scene (2) - Only in Paradise

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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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

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