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
Glamorcult	Lost Souls In Time	The Stone Sessions	03:40
Moral Lepers	Suicide	Turn to Stone	02:06
Null Set	Stripe	New Job (EP)	01:18
Age of Mirrors	She Cracks Me Up	Screenplay	03:39
Bobby and Synthia	Queen Street	thirty-six hours (EP)	04:56
Velveteens	Flies	Tall House (EP)	04:09
Glamorcult	Afterglow	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:44
Tenants	Losing Youth	Visions of Our Future	03:25
DeMars	Le fou sur l'île	Les Télé-Têtes	04:04
Bora Bora	Starting Over	Fashion Passion b/w Starting Over	04:23
Corsage	She's Become a Memory	ST	04:06
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Feelings	I Fear What I Might Hear	05:03
Glamorcult	Cry	Shadows From The Past	03:35
Glamorcult	All Those Lies	The Stone Sessions	03:25
Extras	I’ll be Wanting You	The Road to Zambando	04:15
Cardboard Brains	Ermie Has Feelers	Live At The Edge	05:36
100 Flowers	We're Waiting	21st Guessing	03:11
Scenics	This Day	New Part In Town	03:08
Lawn	Don`t Ask	Peace in the Valley	03:43
Martha And The Muffins	Was Ezo	Trance and Dance	03:58
Low Fun	The New Dictator	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	05:01
Compilation	Conditioned Response - Are You Responding	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:28
Rational Youth	In Your Eyes	Heredity	03:13
39 Steps	I'll Take the Blame	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:25
Moev	Rotting Geraniums	Zimmerkampf	04:51
Braineaters	Johnny	Planet X	06:03
Bündock	Silhouette	Société Anonyme	04:06
100 Flowers	Nothing is Hard	21st Guessing	04:31
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Drugs	Ohama aka The White Album	04:36
DeMars	Le rêveur egaré	Les Télé-Têtes	04:06
Cardboard Brains	Babies Run My World	Live At The Edge	02:07
Oui	Information	Oui	04:41
Glamorcult	Shadows From The Past (Part 2)	Shadows From The Past	03:19
Teasers	Love Me Like You Did Last Night	Love Me Like You Did Last Night b/w I Love You	02:53
Images In Vogue	Victimize	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:19
Blue Peter	Factory Living	Test Patterns For Living	02:50
Voice	Lime	Anno Di Voce	02:58
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cold War Nightlife	03:14
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Of Whales	Midnite News	06:22
Bündock	Lover for Hire	Société Anonyme	03:25
Handful of Snowdrops	Spiral Dive (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	02:36
Fictions	Praying for the World	ST	03:06
Diodes	Behind Those Eyes (Aug 1977 Crash 'N' Burn Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	02:42
Faded Films	East of the Asylum	Faded Years	04:46
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - Essay - Me Dad	Toronto Calling	06:06
Deserters	Take It Away	ST	03:26
Fictions	Better	ST	02:31
Men Without Hats	Where do Boys Go	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	03:56
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Space and Time	05:20
Pukka Orchestra	Might as Well be on Mars	ST	05:05
Within Gothic Towers	I Will Lead You	Within Gothic Towers	04:58
Age of Mirrors	Everything Looks The Same	Mirage	03:38
Images In Vogue	Foreign Affairs	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:59
Spoons	South American Vacation	Arias & Symphonies	04:12
Popular Front (1)	World Weary	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	04:54
Glen Meadmore	Blissful Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:24
NEO A4	The Warmer Side Of You	The Warmer Side of You	04:13
Vital Sines	Break the Chains	Big Dark Dreams	02:53
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Sister H. Immaculata	Spunker	02:12
Pierre Perpall	Da Da Da (Vocal)	Da Da Da	03:50
Edsells	She Escaped	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	04:22
Glamorcult	Fusion (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:23
Salty Seamen	Lime Green Blues	In The Groove At Last	02:29
Blueprints	I Fell Down	Stare 01	03:35
Family Plot	Old Refrain	Convictions	04:09
DeMars	Try... You Can't	Les Télé-Têtes	03:56
I Braineater	I Am	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:07
Mama Quilla II	KKK	ST (EP)	05:40
Timothy Chipman	Old Shoes, New Dreams	Ghost Parade	01:33
Rational Youth	Just a Sound in the Night (remix)	ST (mini album)	03:45
Glamorcult	As I Breathe on The TTC	Shadows From The Past	03:58
Spoons	Tidal Wave	Bridges Over Borders	03:55
Breeding Ground	Underground	Wintergarden (EP)	04:31
Rikki & The Rokkits	New Wave	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:10
Rex Chainbelt	Test Tube Baby	Foreign Movie	01:53
Diodes	Survivors	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:56
Spoons	Arias & Symphonies	Arias & Symphonies	04:47
Scott Matthews	Boats in Rivers	Boats in Rivers	04:50
e	Excerpt	Prime Cuts	02:09
Tame & Talking	Darkened Dream	ST	03:10
Handful of Snowdrops	Voices in the Night	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:41
Einstein	Fire of My Loins	Sex and Science	04:48
The Play	Midnight Dreams	Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City	03:12
Austra	Spellwork	Feel it Break	05:09
Class Info	I Want	Inside	05:22
Instructions	D-6	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:32
Timothy Chipman	Ghost Parade	Ghost Parade	02:25
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News	Midnite News	07:10
Moral Support	Chasing Rainbows	Insanity	04:20
Informer	I Know You Know	I Know You Know b/w Hold It	03:09
Johnny Zhivago	New Things	Microalbum	03:19
Awake The Echoes	The Best Thing	Normal Life	02:38
e	Kunst Kopf	Prime Cuts	01:55
Philip Rambow	Don't Come (Cryin' To Me)	Jungle Law	03:37
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired (Live On Open Mike With Mike Bullard, Jan. 22 1999)	Rarities	03:51
DeMars	Les zoos arborifères	Les Télé-Têtes	03:09
Tim Ray	D-Scratch	ST	02:04
Interpol	When Rock 'n' Roll Was in the Hole	ST	02:26
Martha And The Muffins	Saigon	Metro Music	04:23
Cottage Industry	Things Go Up	The Winter's Tale	03:34

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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