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
Start	Kids in the USA	Hey You	03:17
The Vox	Bored of the 80's	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	02:37
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't Look Now	Spunker	03:44
Future Yanx	Suite For A Nation	Suite For A Nation (picture sleeve)	03:12
Rex Chainbelt	Disco	Foreign Movie	00:46
Living End (1)	Close Your Eyes	ST	04:53
Golden Calgarians	Happy Man	Savage Love	02:10
Bruce PM	From Sparks to Embers	Makeshift	06:15
Images In Vogue	So Careful (Extended Mix)	So Careful (Extended Mix)	07:17
Glamorcult	Afterglow	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:44
Dream Child	Luv On the Line	Heaven Knows b/w Luv On the Line	04:11
Térapi	Lève-toi!	Primale	02:13
39 Steps	Let's Flirt With Danger	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:16
Benjamin Russell	Rock It	Pop Modern(e)	04:06
Frigidaires	5 Guys Named Moe	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:14
Hush	Now Reality	Replay	04:41
I Braineater	Future Now	I Here, Where You	03:08
DeMars	Out of Sight	Stories from between the Walls	05:25
Velveteens	Tall House	Tall House (EP)	03:05
Spoons	Ciao	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	01:35
Shanghai Lil	Nirvana - Oh What a Night	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:57
Odd Man Out	Whatever Happened to Us	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	04:02
Electric Mocean	Television Eyes	Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)	03:46
Within Gothic Towers	Fanfare To Flight	Within Gothic Towers	04:48
Martha And The Muffins	Walking Into Walls	Danseparc	02:57
Glamorcult	Silent Reflection	A Price To Paris	03:59
Nasty Habits	Playing in the Danger Zone	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:07
Drastic Measures	The Teddy Bear's Picnic	ST	02:21
Vital Sines	Sex & Babies	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:40
Scenics	I Killed Marx	Underneath the Door	04:29
Johnny Zhivago	It Must be Love	Microalbum	03:43
Robert Armes	Radio Active	Nearly Out of Control b/w Radio Active	02:31
Handful of Snowdrops	Trust	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	04:24
Térapi	Espèce de stress	Primale	02:33
Villains	Boogie Man	Go Crazy	04:24
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Space and Time	04:49
Rex Chainbelt	Run Away	Foreign Movie	02:43
Kaméléon	Caravane (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	03:32
Lou Champagne System	Propaganda Frustration	No Visible Means	06:49
Psyche	Wake the Flood Unconscious	Mystery Hotel	02:53
Within Gothic Towers	The Cavern Of Solitude	Within Gothic Towers	04:06
Bündock	El Salvador (The Beat of)	Société Anonyme	04:30
Bruce PM	Senility	Makeshift	02:27
Bündock	Never Trust	Société Anonyme	04:59
Braineaters	Closet Case	Planet X	01:26
The Front	Treacherous	Underworld	04:42
100 Flowers	21st Guessing	21st Guessing	04:16
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heart of the Mind	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:27
Klō	Break the Floor	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	03:34
Modernes Pickles	Is That Everything	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:34
Neurons	New Location	Midnight Meetings b/w New Location	00:07
Motive	It’s Too Late	Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)	03:28
Modernes Pickles	Night Worker	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:15
Compilation	Instructions - D-6	The Circuit	05:14
Moev	Rotting Geraniums	Zimmerkampf	04:51
Braineaters	Modern Man	Planet X	02:15
Strange Advance	Automatic Sighs	Worlds Away	04:41
Martha And The Muffins	Motorbikin'	Trance and Dance	02:58
Modern Minds	The End of a Dream	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	03:40
Hush	Dancing in East Berlin	Replay	04:17
e	Prime Cuts	Prime Cuts	03:37
B-Sides	Much Too Serious	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	02:44
Nex'd	Flexible	Surreal (EP)	06:21
Tim Ray	Hate (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:22
DeMars	Les zoos arborifères	Les Télé-Têtes	03:09
Kings	My Habit	Are Here	03:41
Glamorcult	Time Is Running Out	Shadows From The Past	03:16
A Neon Rome	Islam	A Neon Rome	10:18
Images In Vogue	One Way Heart	In The House	03:30
Volts	These Things Remain	Plugged In	03:57
Rational Youth	In Your Eyes	ST (mini album)	02:46
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Love in 3-D	Space and Time	03:36
Mannequin Depressives	Dissolve	Girls Are Evil	01:45
Drama	Loneliness	Loneliness	03:28
Breeding Ground	Dirge	Wintergarden (EP)	06:25
Hygiene Club	Girls at the Bank	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	02:05
True Confessions	Modern Personality	ST	04:12
Modernes Pickles	Destination Martin	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:13
Direktive 17	Run With Me	ST (EP)	04:35
Cardboard Brains	Is That Why?	Live At The Edge	03:28
Philip Rambow	Jungle Law	Jungle Law	03:15
Men Without Hats	Antarctica	Folk of the 80's (EP)	03:25
Glamorcult	The Bass of Our Style	A Price To Paris	03:53
Tame & Talking	Conditioned Manaid	ST	04:01
Lou Champagne System	Don't Say I'm Here	No Visible Means	03:27
Tyro	City Life	A Little More Time (EP)	03:02
Hot Tip	Father I Know	Stop All Motion	04:18
The Front	Who Your Friends Are	Gina's at a Party	03:45
ACTORS	Left On Read	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:20
Glamorcult	After the Battle	Early Glamour	03:12
Spoons	Escape With You	Static In Transmission	04:21
Oui	Pulling Me Closer	Oui	03:45
Living End (1)	Is it Murder	ST	03:34
Compilation	Mike Peters - Trucker's Paradise	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	T.V.	Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.	04:33
e	Excerpt	Prime Cuts	02:09
Spoons	I've Been Here Before	Vertigo Tango	03:58
FM109	S.O.S.	ST	03:54
Decade of Dreams	The Bridge	Wild Colloquial	03:31
Bruce PM	Well, Yes	Makeshift	04:45

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Channel 5 - ST (EP)

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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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