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
Instructions	The Extra	ST	03:12
Rarefaction	Open Up Your Heart	Ordinary Man	04:12
Modernettes	(I Can Only Give You) Everything	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:22
Rheostatics	My Generation	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:04
Philip Rambow	Beyond the Naked & the Dead	Jungle Law	03:11
Rational Youth	Close to Nature	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:43
Deserters	No Time for Talking	ST	03:16
Breeding Ground	Turn to Dust	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:20
Corsage	Snakeskin (live at the Town Pump)	Big Night Out (EP)	05:22
Carbon Unit	The Marsh	The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)	02:45
Start	Stereo	Hey You	03:16
Todd Stevens	This Way!	This Way! (picture sleeve)	03:20
Diodes	Burn Down Your Daddy's House	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:16
Spoons	Only for Athletes	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	05:29
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Errands For Eros	Spunker	04:09
Chris Evans & The Quarts	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	03:36
Timothy Chipman	Joy to the World	Ghost Parade	01:32
Strange Advance	Love Games	Worlds Away	03:51
Extras	I’ll be Wanting You	The Road to Zambando	04:15
A Neon Rome	The Magical Summer Of ’85	A Neon Rome	03:17
Breeding Ground	Business	Obscurity And Flair	04:02
Lawn	Beluger	Peace in the Valley	03:46
Moev	Feline Frauline	Zimmerkampf	02:46
Vital Sines	Subway Suicide	Subway Suicide/ Erik the Generik b/w Sex & Babies (picture sleeve)	04:51
Entrance System	No Relative	Imperfect Image	03:19
Oui	Free from Body	Oui	03:01
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Simple Man	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:16
Golden Calgarians	Getting Weaker	Savage Love	03:05
Pukka Orchestra	Flies (as Big as Your Fist)	ST	03:13
Rational Youth	Call Me	Heredity	02:59
Cannon Heath Down	Not Now	Heart-Throb Companion	02:15
Deserters	Take It Away	ST	03:26
Scenics	Great Piles of Leaves	Underneath the Door	04:18
Tin Twist	Sometimes It's Funny	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	03:38
Demars	Les cosmétiques cosmiques	Les Tele-Tetes	03:48
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lonely Heart Dance	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:09
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Conning Tower	Looking Up From Under	Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under	03:35
Psyche	The Saint Became a Lush	Unveiling The Secret	06:25
Glamorcult	All That Matters	Shadows From The Past	03:39
Corsage	Myself and You (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:00
Psyche	Ride On	Mystery Hotel	02:48
Spoons	Red Light	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:44
Philip Rambow	Magnificient Obsession	Jungle Law	03:39
One Hand Clapping	The Moon is Blue	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	02:39
A Kid	Wrong and Bite	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	06:21
Age of Mirrors	Talk of the Crowd	Mirage	04:13
Quasi Hands	Lovelife	ST	03:01
Strange Advance	Hold On to the Nite	Worlds Away	04:34
Benjamin Russell	Angel of Mercy	Madman	02:45
Glamorcult	In Time (Only to be Free)	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:17
Tribal Earth	Got to Move	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	04:09
Novels	Son of Sam	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	02:35
Spunker (aka Neotone)	I'm in the Stars For You	Spunker	04:36
Martha And The Muffins	Revenge (Against the World)	Metro Music	03:31
Benjamin Russell	Dreaming Girl	Madman	02:24
Modernes Pickles	Colors	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:18
Images In Vogue	Travel	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	05:34
Mettle	Five-Four	ST	04:39
Erect	We Are Police	Consequence of Life	02:14
The End	My Paradise	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	02:59
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	A Giant Starfish	Ohama aka The White Album	04:11
Graphics	Sleepdancer	Sleepdancer b/w Our Planet Ocean	03:41
Compilation	Sigi Jonsson - Trying To Find Her	Toronto Calling	02:25
Lawn	Peace in the Valley	Peace in the Valley	03:37
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Body of Vagrant Waves	I Fear What I Might Hear	08:36
Carbon Unit	The Martian Hop	The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)	03:48
e	Kunst Kopf	Prime Cuts	01:55
Instructions	Wicked Heart	ST	04:02
Martha And The Muffins	Monotone	Metro Music	02:46
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Open Window	Midnite News	03:33
Joe Naylor	I Hate Fluorescent Lights	I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights	03:18
Martha And The Muffins	Symptomatic Love	Trance and Dance	04:08
Deserters	Americans	ST	03:03
Glamatron	Passport (Instrumental)	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:30
Pointed Sticks	Out of Luck	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:32
Timothy Chipman	Old Shoes, New Dreams	Ghost Parade	01:33
Trespassing Bean Rays	Cleanorama Stakes	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:21
James Harcourt	You Make My Thing Ping	Emotional Blackmail	02:48
Compilation	Colin Davison - Love's Gone	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Psyche	Taking Chances	Unveiling The Secret	04:38
Friendly Fire	I Saw Her Smile	Junior Senility EP	02:31
UJ3RK5	Naum Gabo	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:18
Tenants	Never Forget a Face	Visions of Our Future	04:07
Braineater I	Fade	I Here, Where You	03:35
B-Sides	State of Emergency	Red to Black	04:22
Trespassing Bean Rays	Eclipse	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	01:24
Pukka Orchestra	The Deserter	ST	00:50
Images In Vogue	Fade Away	Educated Man	03:31
Compilation	S.S. - Working Girl	No Pedestrians	03:09
Diodes	Play With Fire	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	05:30
Images In Vogue	Breaking Up	Pre-release	04:30
Fictions	Jersey Shore	ST	02:48
Lawn	Reconsider Baby	Peace in the Valley	03:58
Insex	Play or Die	One (EP)	02:14
Voice	Lime	Anno Di Voce	02:58
Moral Lepers	Suicide	Turn to Stone	02:06
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Exit From a Dream	04:54
Broken Tables	Image of You	ST	04:24
Doppler Bros.	The Wreck of the Eaton Centre	Totally Impractical	04:27

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

Nex'd - Surreal (EP)

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Awake The Echoes - Normal Life

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Channel Five - ST (EP)

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Our Sir Francis to the Sea - ST

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Electric Mocean - Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)

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No Comment - Wondering b/w Honesty

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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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Second Thoughts - Integrity b/w Wound Up

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Regulators - What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)

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Diodes - Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981

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Diodes - Rarities

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Diodes - Action-Reaction

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Scenics - New Part In Town

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Dancespeak - Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)

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Bangkok - Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own

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Cardboard Brains - Live At The Edge

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4th Floor - Black & White b/w Follow in Stride

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Breeding Ground - Obscurity And Flair

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Breeding Ground - Tales of Adventure (EP)

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Breeding Ground - Reunion // Slaughter

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