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
Psyche	Suffocation	Insomnia Theatre	03:10
Benjamin Russell	Dance Man	Pop Modern(e)	04:12
Psyche	Caught in the Act	Unveiling The Secret	05:42
Compilation	Julie Choquette - Dream in My Head	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:34
Land of Giants	I Got You Babe	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:17
Teasers	Love Me Like You Did Last Night	Love Me Like You Did Last Night b/w I Love You	02:53
Rolf Kempf	Bye Bye Baby	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:36
Toe Beat	Stranger	Stranger	03:42
Images In Vogue	Foreign Affairs	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:59
A Fish in C	In Transit	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
Handful of Snowdrops	Still We Live (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:37
Moev	M.T. M.T. N.M.E.	Zimmerkampf	05:15
Spoons	Ice Age	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:08
The Presence	Blown Away	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	02:15
Me And the Mosquitos	Valium	Go Away b/w Valium	03:03
Living End	Death at an Early Age	Death at an Early Age b/w Magic Carpet Ride	03:12
This Fear	Haunting Me	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:23
I Braineater	Wrong World	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:46
Psyche	Lord Unleashed	Unveiling The Secret	03:22
e	Coincidence	Reaction b/w Coincidence	03:06
Diodes	Roses and Thorns	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:22
Tenants	What's In It For Me?	ST	02:43
Spoons	Clever	Bridges Over Borders	03:39
Compilation	Instructions - Tell-A-Photo	The Circuit	04:42
Age of Mirrors	Juliet's Dancing	Mirage	04:49
Rational Youth	Sorry	Heredity	04:47
Trespassing Bean Rays	Cleanorama Stakes	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:21
Quasi Hands	Parallel Lines	ST	03:19
Magic Dragon	(White Monkey) Under The Volcano	Emotional Landscape	07:16
Bündock	Cowboy	Société Anonyme	03:46
B-Sides	State of Emergency	Red to Black	04:22
Drastic Measures	T.N.T.	ST	03:51
Leotards	Suicide Lover	Suicide Lover b/w Runaway Bridge	03:15
Vital Sines	Rhythm of Dark	Collage	05:34
Fictions	Jersey Shore	ST	02:48
The Front	The Truth Hurts	Gina's at a Party	03:13
Compilation	Glamatron - Klüb	The Circuit	02:28
Buddy King & the Motion!	Schoolgirl Alibis	Schoolgirl Alibis b/w I Didn't Know Her	02:09
Handful of Snowdrops	White Dominoes (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:11
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Lou Champagne System	Broken Hearts	No Visible Means	03:31
Start	Bad Girl	Hey You	03:53
NEO A4	Say This to Me	ST	03:31
Diodes	Tired Of Waking Up Tired (original demo 1978)	Rarities	03:29
Chris Evans & The Quarts	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	03:36
Magic Dragon	Egyptian Radio	Emotional Landscape	04:12
Johnny Zhivago	Echo	Microalbum	04:03
DeMars	Le rêveur egaré	Les Télé-Têtes	04:06
John Young Paul	Have You Seen the Boy in the Gutter with the Broken Mind?	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:10
Corsage	City Sleeps	ST	04:17
Johnny Faith	Party time	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	01:42
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Simple Man	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:16
Martha And The Muffins	Luna Park	Trance and Dance	03:12
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
Images In Vogue	Anxiety Reaction	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:00
Absolute 9	Stop Thinking	ST	03:14
Handful of Snowdrops	The Ghost of a Song	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:44
Modern Minds	The Mess	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:09
Barking Boys	Incident In St. Jamestown	The Yes Girls	04:58
39 Steps	Priscilla	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:32
Men Without Hats	Modern Dancing	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:29
Spoons	Walk Across the Water	Bridges Over Borders	04:44
Tenants	Schoolgirl	ST	02:47
Moev	Czar	Dusk and Desire	04:19
Living End (1)	Close Your Eyes	ST	04:53
Lou Champagne System	Don't Say I'm Here	No Visible Means	03:27
Glamorcult	The Fight Is Over	Shadows From The Past	04:10
Robert Armes	Nearly Out of Control	Nearly Out of Control b/w Radio Active	03:35
A Neon Rome	The Magical Summer Of ’85	A Neon Rome	03:17
Degrees of Freedom	China	China	06:00
Salty Seamen	Star Train	In The Groove At Last	04:01
Micks	Money Talks	ST (EP)	02:24
Einstein	Man-Child	Sex and Science	03:38
Rarefaction	I Dreamt	Abstract Minds b/w I Dreamt (picture sleeve)	04:04
Volts	While You Can	Plugged In	03:41
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	And Without a Word	Ohama aka The White Album	04:16
I Braineater	1980 More	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:57
Austra	Beat and the Pulse	Feel it Break	04:55
Cardboard Brains	Caesar Drives a Fast Car	Live At The Edge	03:06
Modernettes	Femme Fatale	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:53
Figures At Dawn	Close My Eyes	ST	04:54
Spice	Just a Little Bit	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	02:17
Rex Chainbelt	Mon Ami	Foreign Movie	02:22
Breeding Ground	Tales of Adventure	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:14
Bobby and Synthia	Big Tits	thirty-six hours (EP)	03:44
Johnny Faith	Standing On the Red Line	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:52
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Mr. X)	Strange Pleasures EP	04:54
Moev	Rotting Geraniums	Zimmerkampf	04:51
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Talking About	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:06
Timothy Chipman	Strange Days	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:48
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
Tame & Talking	Darkened Dream	ST	03:10
B-Sides	She's a Raver (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	01:34
Darkroom	Leave it to Heaven	San Paku	03:45
Glamorcult	Pins & Needles	A Price To Paris	03:16
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Keys	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)	03:16
Rex Chainbelt	Rock a Rolla	Foreign Movie	01:40
Taro	The Line Is Fine	The Line Is Fine b/w Driftin Away (picture sleeve)	03:21
I Braineater	Edge	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:30

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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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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