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
Streetcar Named Desire	Life Begins	Life Begins	04:40
Tenants	You Don't Know What I've Been Thru	ST	03:40
Hygiene Club	Sea Monster	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	03:10
A Day in Paris	jUsT tHe sAmE	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:42
Moev	Rotting Geraniums	Zimmerkampf	04:51
Popular Front	Doomsday Army	Doomsday Army b/w Puppet	03:53
Moral Support	Insanity	Insanity	04:33
Ralph Mashats	Empty Eyes (Fly My Way)	Irradies b/w Empty Eyes (Fly My Way) (picture sleeve)	05:05
Null Set	Judgement Days	New Job (EP)	02:19
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Furniture Dancing	Spunker	03:15
Spoons	Radio Heaven	Bridges Over Borders	03:57
DeMars	Out of Sight	Songs From Between The Walls	05:25
Tin Twist	Sitting Here, Waiting Here	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	02:32
NEO A4	Look to Your Heart	The Warmer Side of You	03:47
Breeding Ground	Reflections (In a Coffee Cup)	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:21
Jon Mullane	In Our Hearts	Following Yesterday	03:22
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Instrumental)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:18
Within Gothic Towers	Will I Hope To Love	Within Gothic Towers	05:44
Hush	Now Reality	Replay	04:41
Compilation	L'Etranger - Light in the Morning (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:44
NEO A4	The Warmer Side Of You	The Warmer Side of You	04:13
Lunasam	Redhead	Redhead	03:52
Handful of Snowdrops	Chemical Engineering (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:22
Einstein	Mr. Science	Sex and Science	02:35
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lola	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:08
Modern Minds	Slap in the Face	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
Rikki & The Rokkits	They Never See	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:23
B-Sides	Regular Guy	Red to Black	02:35
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Robots in the Cellar	Space and Time	04:06
39 Steps	City of Vice [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:25
A Day in Paris	Child's Cry	Prey	03:45
Low Fun	Words We Left Behind	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	03:41
Hypno-Gogo	In Your Eyes	In Your Eyes b/w Flashing	03:04
Psyche	The Saint Became a Lush	Unveiling The Secret	06:25
Darkroom	Tears Hold No Cure	San Paku	03:46
Class Info	Circle Game	Inside	02:20
100 Flowers	Coming Up For Air	21st Guessing	04:06
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	02:04
Rheostatics	Satellite Dancing	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:31
Within Gothic Towers	The Cavern Of Solitude	Within Gothic Towers	04:06
A Day in Paris	Under	Prey	04:21
Cinebar	Another Fine Day	Another Fine Day	03:37
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Age of Reason(able Pleasure)	White Guilt	04:42
Scenics	In the Summer	New Part In Town	04:22
Barking Boys	Here She Comes	The Yes Girls	03:55
Hush	Now Reality (edited)	Replay	06:01
Vital Sines	Sorry	Big Dark Dreams	04:32
Scenics	New Part in Town	New Part In Town	03:31
UJ3RK5	The Locator	ST (EP)	03:11
Trespassing Bean Rays	Cleanorama Stakes	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:21
IQ	Burn Me	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:53
John Young Paul	The Boulevards of Hope	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:37
Ross Angeles	Hip Hip	Salute	02:21
Rational Youth	Ring the Bells	Cold War Nightlife	05:13
Cannon Heath Down	Bone Of Contention	Heart-Throb Companion	03:34
Diodes	Lost in the Dark	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
Glamorcult	Jazzam	A Price To Paris	03:29
Glamorcult	Mine Is The Maiden	The Stone Sessions	04:16
Oui	You Make Me High	Oui	04:41
Reasons	Take Me Back	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:01
Vital Sines	Ice Statue	Collage	04:41
Glamorcult	I Will Still Be There	The Stone Sessions	04:05
Nowhere	No More	No More b/w Living	04:56
Handful of Snowdrops	No More Lies (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:38
Chemicals	Run and Hide	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	02:49
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:44
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Over Mountains	Ohama aka The White Album	03:14
Decade of Dreams	Tra la la	Wild Colloquial	02:58
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
The Presence	Mechanoid	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	03:55
Glamorcult	My Lady	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:02
Breeding Ground	This Time Tomorrow	Tales of Adventure (EP)	04:01
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't Look Now	Spunker	03:44
DeMars	Le zaratt express	Les Télé-Têtes	04:11
This Fear	Soldier of This Fashion (Extended)	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:14
Cardboard Brains	The Monster in Ed	Live At The Edge	03:26
Vital Sines	Break the Chains	Big Dark Dreams	02:53
Glamorcult	The Fight Is Over	Shadows From The Past	04:10
The Edge	Why Do I Miss You?	Release the Circle	03:53
Compilation	Kinetic Ideals - The Whip (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:21
Sex Church	Dull Light	Growing Over	03:42
Moev	Photos	Dusk and Desire	04:50
Shock Culture	Haunted by Tokyo	ST (EP)	03:49
Images In Vogue	Anxiety Reaction	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:00
Martha And The Muffins	Revenge (Against the World)	Metro Music	03:31
Diodes	Coma	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
IQ	Sixth World	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:59
Compilation	Conditioned Response - Are You Responding	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:28
Deserters	Thought Police	ST	04:08
Men Without Hats	Modern Dancing	Folk of the 80's (EP)	04:12
Spoons	Conventional Beliefs	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:57
Fictions	Fixation	ST	03:19
Popular Front (1)	World Weary	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	04:54
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Planet Nine	Space and Time	05:25
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	On the Line	ST	04:09
Inner Sanction	White Boy Rap	Dancematic-Automatic	05:58
Inner Sanction	Direction Perfection	Dancematic-Automatic	04:32
Pukka Orchestra	Cherry Beach Express	ST	03:07
Carbon Unit	The Marsh	The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)	02:45
Mama Quilla II	KKK	ST (EP)	05:40

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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