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
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't Look Now	Spunker	03:44
Martha And The Muffins	One Day in Paris	This Is The Ice Age	04:20
Martha And The Muffins	Women Around the World at Work	This Is The Ice Age	03:59
Tenants	Never Forget a Face	Visions of Our Future	04:07
Oui	On Our Way	Oui	03:36
Border	Black and White	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:01
Awake The Echoes	Someone	Normal Life	04:07
Villains	Laugh it Out	Go Crazy	03:54
Rarefaction	Abstract Minds	Abstract Minds b/w I Dreamt (picture sleeve)	04:10
Shock Culture	Haunted by Tokyo	ST (EP)	03:49
DeMars	Les zoos arborifères	Les Télé-Têtes	03:09
Compilation	S.S. - Working Girl	No Pedestrians	03:09
Inner Sanction	Hush	Shake Up - Fly Down	03:20
Velveteens	Flies	Tall House (EP)	04:09
Diodes	Nowhere Fast (Aug 1977 Crash 'N' Burn Demo)	Rarities	02:50
Instructions	Tell-a-Photo	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:38
Figures At Dawn	Distance Through Darkness	ST	03:10
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Exit From a Dream	04:54
Rarefaction	I Dreamt	Ordinary Man	04:18
Drama	Space Age Punks	Loneliness	02:37
Lawn	Reconsider Baby	Peace in the Valley	03:58
Strange Advance	Watermusic	Worlds Away	00:55
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Baby, Baby	Space and Time	03:35
Vital Sines	Collage	Collage	04:25
Mannequin Depressives	I Don't Get You	Girls Are Evil	04:31
Bruce PM	Senility	Makeshift	02:27
Living End (1)	Close Your Eyes	ST	04:53
Salty Seamen	Club Hot de Paris	In The Groove At Last	02:03
Preison's Shade	She Wants Me	Race Me Home (EP)	05:54
Compilation	The Sturm Group - Upon a Nerve (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:34
Spoons	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:00
Images In Vogue	Lust for Love	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:18
Martha And The Muffins	Danseparc (Every Day It's Tomorrow)	Danseparc	03:22
Scenics	Walk in the Desert	Underneath the Door	01:32
Drastic Measures	See My House	ST	02:46
Vital Sines	Big Dark Dreams	Big Dark Dreams	05:25
Images In Vogue	Rescue Me	In The House	03:49
Golden Calgarians	New Desperados	New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)	03:07
BAMFF	The Uncanny	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:50
Red Herring	Feelings	Taste Tests	02:21
Cottage Industry	Kulturkreise	The Winter's Tale	03:02
Hunger Project	Imitation of Life	Demo 1982	06:24
Erect	Cry of a Leo	Consequence of Life	02:48
The Play	Whatever it Takes	Running Out of Time b/w Whatever it Takes	03:25
A Neon Rome	Cums a Wolf	New Heroin	04:15
Degrees of Freedom	The Sound of a Jealous Heart	China	03:36
Eight Seconds	Kiss You (When It's Dangerous)	Almacantar	04:07
Kings	Go Away	Are Here	03:47
Figures At Dawn	It Doesn't Matter	ST	04:31
Glamorcult	Dream Girl (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	03:43
A Day in Paris	Too Tired	Prey	03:34
Age of Mirrors	Reunion	Screenplay	04:14
Boys Brigade	Cut Up	Mannequin Demo	04:46
Images In Vogue	Fade Away	Educated Man	03:31
Drama	Human Question	Loneliness	02:38
Images In Vogue	S&M	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:53
Glamorcult	Manhattan Sunrise	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:24
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Instrumental)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:18
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Pukka Orchestra	Weekend (Come Alive!)	The Palace Of Memeory	06:15
Drama	As I Breathe On The T.T.C.	Loneliness	04:04
Villains	Lovers	Go Crazy	03:03
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	A Neon Rome	05:20
Breeding Ground	Slaughter	Reunion // Slaughter	04:55
Martha And The Muffins	Saigon	Metro Music	04:23
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	03:56
Psyche	Misery	The Influence	04:06
Red Herring	Maturity	Taste Tests	04:23
The Front	Underworld	Underworld	03:59
Breeding Ground	Dirge	Wintergarden (EP)	06:25
Philip Rambow	Don't Come (Cryin' To Me)	Jungle Law	03:37
Darkroom	Proven Guilty	San Paku	03:32
Degrees of Freedom	In This Room	China	03:41
Scenics	Great Piles of Leaves	Underneath the Door	04:18
Hygiene Club	Girls at the Bank	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	02:05
Family Plot	Old Refrain	Convictions	04:09
Boys Brigade	Saigon	ST	04:28
Dream Child	Luv On the Line	Heaven Knows b/w Luv On the Line	04:11
Rob Bryanton	Gimme a Beer!	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:24
Breeding Ground	Reflections (In a Coffee Cup)	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:21
Rex Chainbelt	Goodbye Carol	Foreign Movie	03:24
Handful of Snowdrops	Counterclockwise (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:30
Frigidaires	5 Guys Named Moe	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:14
Diodes	Everything I Am	Action-Reaction	03:15
Barking Boys	Too Hot In Here	The Yes Girls	04:39
Diodes	Roses and Thorns	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:22
Moev	Kim Says	Dusk and Desire	03:41
Darkroom	Tears Hold No Cure	San Paku	03:46
45's	She's In Love	On the Beach	03:27
Braineaters	Kid Stuff	Planet X	01:33
Diodes	Lawn Boy Lover (1977 previously unreleased)	Rarities	02:33
Rational Youth	City of Night	Cold War Nightlife	04:02
45's	Real Confused	On the Beach	02:15
Tenants	You Don't Know What I've Been Thru	ST	03:40
Glamorcult	Afterglow	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:44
Iko	Elevator	83	03:56
Popular Front (1)	This is the Rubicon	This is the Rubicon	04:59
Andre Beaupre	The Saga of Wayne Gretzky	The Saga of Wayne Gretzky b/w The Saga of Wayne Gretzky Part II	03:16
Absolute 9	Stop Thinking	ST	03:14
Land of Giants	Security Squad	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Hunger Project - The Same Inside b/w Assembly

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Hunger Project - Demo 1982

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Klō - Demo 1981

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Klō - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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Klō - Demo 1982

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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Beach Punks - She Got Body Talk

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Hush - Replay

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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The Scene (2) - Only in Paradise

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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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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