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
Beach Punks	She Got Body Talk	She Got Body Talk	04:52
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Ohama aka The White Album	05:08
Edsells	Don't Wanna Go to School	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	03:06
The Modern Minds	Confidential (Modernettes)	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:58
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Talking About	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:06
Vis-A-Vis	Dance With Me	Heart and Soul	03:56
Rob Bryanton	Just a Shy Guy	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:29
Wrestlers	G.T.O.	ST	03:32
Scenics	Walk in the Desert	Underneath the Door	01:32
Compilation	The Secrets - All the Words	No Pedestrians	02:52
Spoons	End of Story	Static In Transmission	04:39
Maurice & The Clichés	Unschuld	C'est la vie	03:43
This Fear	Look Along The Edge	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:38
Jon Mullane	With You	Following Yesterday	03:59
Dis Band	Hesitation	Gone Dead Out	05:44
Moral Support	Chasing Rainbows	Insanity	04:20
Kinetic Ideals	Absurdity	Reason (EP)	05:23
John Young Paul	Is That Why?	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:07
British Properties	Niag'ra Falls	Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls	03:26
ACTORS	Jacknife	Reanimated	04:24
Mettle	The Second Person	ST	03:47
Living End (1)	Better Pictures	ST	02:53
ACTORS	One Hundred Years	One Hundred Years	06:38
I Braineater	Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6)	I Here, Where You	09:19
The Modern Minds	Love to Me	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:32
Bunny & the Lakers	Yalps From the Alpa	Numbers	02:35
Modernes Pickles	People Get Killed and Get Up and Kill	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:25
James Harcourt	You Make My Thing Ping	Emotional Blackmail	02:48
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lonely Heart Dance	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:09
Martha And The Muffins	Swimming	This Is The Ice Age	03:54
Glamorcult	S.O.S.	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:31
Martha And The Muffins	Monotone	Metro Music	02:46
Compilation	Vera & The Poor Boys - Chameleon Girl	The Circuit	03:10
Moev	90 Minutes	Zimmerkampf	05:15
Rarefaction	Ordinary Man	Ordinary Man	04:17
ACTORS	Post Traumatic Love (Humans Remix)	Reanimated	04:32
Maurice & The Clichés	Beautiful Girls	Soft Core	03:49
Lou Champagne System	Do Something	No Visible Means	04:34
Instructions	Learn from Computers	ST	04:15
Preison's Shade	She Wants Me	Race Me Home (EP)	05:54
NEO A4	If it Was You	ST	04:41
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:18
Compilation	Don Bregg - Sounds So Nice	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:51
Kreemers	At The El Mocambo	Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo	02:48
Martha And The Muffins	Three Hundred Years - Chemistry	This Is The Ice Age	07:09
Friendly Fire	Beverly Blue	Junior Senility EP	03:52
Ceramic Hello	The Disqued	The Absence of a Canary	03:54
Hypno-Gogo	Flashing	In Your Eyes b/w Flashing	04:49
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Mr. Cocteau's Holiday	ST	02:17
Glamorcult	Amongst the Ruins	Atlantis Under the Sea	04:17
Tabby K	Wind Or Water	Summertime b/w Wind Or Water	03:17
Dancespeak	Heart of My Song	Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)	03:49
I Braineater	Tin Pins and Cat Fur	I Here, Where You	02:36
Oui	Circle of Love	Oui	04:20
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Voices Like Thunder	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	04:00
Glamorcult	Theories of Modern Affection	A Price To Paris	04:27
Compilation	Instructions - D-6	The Circuit	05:14
Inner Sanction	White Boy Rap	Dancematic-Automatic	05:58
Drastic Measures	Hotsy Totsy - Postlude	ST	04:25
Class Info	Out of Line	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	04:04
The Diodes	No Time to Cry (1981 Previously Unreleased) (CD only)	Rarities	03:43
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Planet Nine	Exit From a Dream	05:21
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News	Midnite News	07:10
Scissors	Don't Call Me Chick	ST	02:17
Images In Vogue	In the House (Single Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	03:14
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:04
Trespassing Bean Rays	Eclipse	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	01:24
I Braineater	I Here Where You	I Here, Where You	02:51
Modernes Pickles	Baby My Band is Back	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:22
Bruce PM	More Joyful Noise	Makeshift	03:31
Glen Meadmore	Just a Girl	Chicken & Biscuits	05:57
Family Plot	Gravedigger	Convictions	02:19
Glamorcult	She Touched My Soul	Early Glamour	04:50
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39
Modernes Pickles	Vitamin K	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:49
The Diodes	Time Damage (Sept. 1977 Toronto Sound Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	02:18
Boys Brigade	Mannequin	ST	03:41
The Presence	Blown Away	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	02:15
Instructions	Cleek	ST	02:56
Images In Vogue	Masks	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:56
Theo Vandenhoff	(Portrait of) Amália Rodrigues	Saviour on the Spilled Blood	04:13
Ralph Mashats	Irradies	Irradies b/w Empty Eyes (Fly My Way) (picture sleeve)	03:54
Hunger Project	The Same Inside	Demo 1982	07:07
Boys Brigade	Into the Flow	ST	05:09
Modernes Pickles	Possessed in the City	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:28
Mad Shadows	The River Flows	Music in the Night	03:03
Sex Church	Waking Up	Growing Over	05:26
Blue Peter	Do the Robot	Test Patterns For Living	03:25
The Diodes	That Was the Way it Was (Eastern Sound Demo 1979)	Rarities	04:27
Modernes Pickles	Madwoman Incanting Against Ghouls	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:03
Tenants	Losing Youth	Visions of Our Future	03:25
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	And Without a Word	Midway b/w Thin Lines	04:07
Deserters	Present Life	ST	03:21
Scissors	All This And More	ST	02:46
Glamorcult	Shadows of Regret	A Price To Paris	03:44
Spoons	No Promises	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:39
Contradance	Black Preppies	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	02:28
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Philip Rambow	Bike Boys	Jungle Law	04:26
Handful of Snowdrops	Trust	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	04:24

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Glass Apple Bonzai - Love & Hatred in MegaWave City

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Eight Seconds - Big Houses

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Eight Seconds - Almacantar

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Theo Vandenhoff - Saviour on the Spilled Blood

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Theo Vandenhoff - In The Throes Of Love

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Theo Vandenhoff - Heartache Is An Empty Room

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Theo Vandenhoff - Alles Ist Besser

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Theo Vandenhoff - Collected EPs

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Theo Vandenhoff - Tenement

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Sound FX - Sound FX

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Sandro Durante - Don't Go (Breaking My Heart) b/w All That Magic

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Hypno-Gogo - In Your Eyes b/w Flashing

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Mad Shadows - Music in the Night

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The Modern Minds - Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Space Invaders - ST (EP)

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Dis Band - Gone Dead Out

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Compilation - Saskatoon Rocks

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The Government - How Many Fingers?

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The Government - Electric Eye

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The Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

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Bumpers - EP

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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Ross Angeles - Salute

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - You Can´t Hold Me Anymore b/w Freaks On the Tube

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - Blimkie

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Drama - Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)

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Drama - Loneliness

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Glamorcult - Atlantis Under the Sea

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Glamorcult - A Price To Paris

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