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
Age of Mirrors	She Cracks Me Up	Screenplay	03:39
Barking Boys	Here She Comes	The Yes Girls	03:55
Instructions	Learn from Computers	ST	04:15
Kaméléon	Anachronisme (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:24
Scissors	Don't Call Me Chick	ST	02:17
Modern Minds	Love to Me	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:32
Vital Sines	Sorry	Big Dark Dreams	04:32
Instructions	Naked Deer	ST	02:49
Spoons	Dropped Dishes	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:58
Modernettes	No Tears	Gone..But Not Forgiven	03:37
Drastic Measures	Silk Stockings	ST	02:38
Kaméléon	Pique-nique (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	02:22
Rex Chainbelt	Goodbye Carol	Foreign Movie	03:24
Two Men Laughing	Dancing in Moscow	Imprisoned Lorri b/w Dancing in Moscow (picture sleeve)	02:53
Spunker (aka Neotone)	No More Walrus	Spunker	03:55
4th Floor	Follow in Stride	Black & White b/w Follow in Stride	04:16
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Crusaders	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	03:49
Pointed Sticks	The Real Thing	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:31
Scenics	Tokyo	New Part In Town	04:07
Mettle	Evening Ocean	ST	02:58
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Exit From a Dream	04:33
Entrance System	Imperfect Image	Imperfect Image	03:38
Compilation	Tyranna - Back Off Baby	No Pedestrians	02:26
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Direct	ST	03:43
Diodes	That Was The Way That It Was	Action-Reaction	03:46
The Front	Twice Shy	Underworld	03:37
Secret Act	Heaven	My Neighbourhood	04:12
Cannon Heath Down	Light Your Eyes	Heart-Throb Companion	03:06
Darkroom	Leave it to Heaven	San Paku	03:45
Scenics	Farm Reports and Test Patterns	New Part In Town	03:50
Popular Front (1)	September Reign	This is the Rubicon	03:12
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Take Me Dancing	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	05:24
Tin Twist	Sometimes It's Funny	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	03:38
Kinetic Ideals	Fade Away	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	07:44
Tim Ray	Stranded Walk	ST	03:24
Scenics	Great Piles of Leaves	Underneath the Door	04:18
Generra	Don’t Cut Me	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	03:57
DeMars	Les télé-têtes	Les Télé-Têtes	04:41
The Vox	Bored of the 80's	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	02:37
Salty Seamen	I'm Done	In The Groove At Last	03:50
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Sister H. Immaculata	Spunker	02:12
UJ3RK5	The Locator	ST (EP)	03:11
Low Fun	Words We Left Behind	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	03:41
Thieves	I See Red	I See Red	04:27
Bumpers	I Watch You Go	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:34
The Presence	Blown Away	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	02:15
Generra	Girls in the Hearts	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	04:19
Tenants	You Don't Know What I've Been Thru	ST	03:40
Glamorcult	Lost Souls In Time	The Stone Sessions	03:40
Drama	Loneliness	Loneliness	03:28
B-Sides	She's a Raver (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	01:34
Rarefaction	Abstract Minds	Ordinary Man	04:56
Glamorcult	Afterglow	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:44
Streetcar Named Desire	Someday Your Ship Will Come (Dance Mix)	Life Begins	04:17
Jon Mullane	Following Yesterday	Following Yesterday	03:44
Deserters	Protection	ST	03:20
Punkin Machine	Zarcon Rock On	Zarcon Rock On // Zarcon Rock On	03:40
Magic Dragon	Once Upon a Time	Emotional Landscape	04:25
Tame & Talking	Darkened Dream	ST	03:10
Drastic Measures	Flowers	ST	03:18
Glamatron	Facial Saviour	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	05:02
Rave Revues	Faces	Voices	03:41
Compilation	Bongo Fury - Alaska Shuffle	Toronto Calling	04:01
Kaméléon	Microcosme	ST	03:40
Moral Lepers	Shadow	Turn to Stone	03:03
Benjamin Russell	Gonna be a Woman Soon	Madman	02:54
Martha And The Muffins	Symptomatic Love	Trance and Dance	04:08
The Front	Looking For You	Gina's at a Party	04:32
Bündock	Season for Love	Société Anonyme	04:11
I Braineater	Davie Street	I Here, Where You	02:54
Rob Bryanton	Just a Shy Guy	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:30
Lou Champagne System	Do Something	No Visible Means	04:34
Mannequin Depressives	Erase It	Girls Are Evil	04:58
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Motive	Don’t You Know	Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)	03:21
Martha And The Muffins	You Sold the Cottage	This Is The Ice Age	04:01
Border	Black and White	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:01
Diodes	When I Was Young	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:18
The Plugs	Sending An S.O.S.	Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today	03:21
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Call	Midnite News	07:14
Rikki & The Rokkits	New Wave	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:10
Glamorcult	She Doesn't Believe In The Magic	The Stone Sessions	03:57
Braineaters	Wrong World	Planet X	02:35
Drama	Come On Over	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	02:57
100 Flowers	21st Guessing	21st Guessing	04:16
Numbers	Sunday Afternoon	Add Up	03:39
Rave Revues	Long Time Coming	Long Time Coming b/w Rules Of Play (picture sleeve)	04:11
Start	State of Her Shine	Hey You	03:12
Neurons	Midnight Meetings	Midnight Meetings b/w New Location	04:27
Kinetic Ideals	Absurdity	Reason (EP)	05:23
CosmaNat	Camping Song	Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)	02:17
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Thin Lines	Midway b/w Thin Lines	05:53
Fictions	Praying for the World	ST	03:06
Rational Youth	The Man in Grey	ST (mini album)	03:19
Kinetic Ideals	Maze of Ways	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	04:09
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Eight Seconds	Happy Endings	Big Houses	03:46
Hot Tip	Hard to be Me	Stop All Motion	03:50
I Braineater	Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6)	I Here, Where You	09:19
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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DeMars - Songs From Between The Walls

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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

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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