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
Martha And The Muffins	Luna Park	Trance and Dance	03:12
ACTORS	Post Traumatic Love (Mark Hjorthoy Remix)	Reanimated	06:24
Bicycle Thieves	Picking Up Pens	ST	04:17
Handful of Snowdrops	A New Light (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:19
Bunny & the Lakers	Weekend Guests	Numbers	01:57
Tim Ray	Preamble - One Last Look (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	06:21
The Diodes	Catwalker	Action-Reaction	03:29
Sound FX	Julie's Jewelry	Sound FX	03:39
John Bell and the Strange	Taking You Home in a Taxi	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	03:24
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Baby, Baby	Space and Time	03:35
Streetcar Named Desire	Someday Your Ship Will Come (Dance Mix)	Life Begins	04:17
Bleu Néon	Survivance	Cité Promise	08:24
DeMars	L'orgasme d'une planète	Les Télé-Têtes	02:48
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	ST (mini album)	05:27
Volts	No Time Like the First Time	Plugged In	02:52
Voice	Wake Up Dreaming	Anno Di Voce	04:05
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News Finale	Ohama aka The White Album	05:46
I Braineater	Fade	I Here, Where You	03:35
Kultur	Crusader	Kultur	03:02
Glamorcult	Distant Memories	The Stone Sessions	04:07
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Simple Man	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:16
Compilation	Third Party - Living in a Bunker	Saskatoon Rocks	04:08
Norda	West Over Seas	West Over Seas	05:54
Cottage Industry	The Urge to Merge	The Winter's Tale	04:33
Moral Support	Heart of Gold	Insanity	03:40
Extras	Circular Impression	Bit Parts	02:13
Living End (1)	Time is Unkind	ST	03:11
Spoons	Numb	Static In Transmission	03:50
Blue Peter	Living in the Eighties	Test Patterns For Living	02:26
Glamorcult	The Light We Will Hold	A Price To Paris	04:23
Salt And the Choppers	I And You	I And You b/w Flounder (picture sleeve)	02:41
Psyche	Caught in the Act	Unveiling The Secret	05:42
The Modern Minds	Substitute	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
Maurice & The Clichés	Show Me a Love	Veronika	03:00
Austra	The Future	Feel it Break	04:02
Family Plot	Dervish	Convictions	04:11
British Properties	Eight Days a Week	Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls	03:20
Friendly Fire	Complete Control	Junior Senility EP	03:12
Mannequin Depressives	I Don't Get You	Girls Are Evil	04:31
Braineaters	Johnny	Planet X	06:03
Images In Vogue	Anxiety Reaction	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:00
Secret Act	Talk Talk!	My Neighbourhood	02:55
Modernes Pickles	Love Me	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:01
Glen Meadmore	Lovin' In My Oven	Chicken & Biscuits	04:07
Rob Bryanton	Another Day, Another Show	Alcohol And Other Drugs	03:13
Dis Band	Dead Brezhnev's - I'm Not in Love	Gone Dead Out	01:30
Compilation	Rent Boys Inc. - Fetish (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:45
Deserters	Americans	ST	03:03
Ross Angeles	Salute	Salute	01:53
Beach Punks	She Got Body Talk	She Got Body Talk	04:52
Martha And The Muffins	Whatever Happened to Radio Valve Road?	Danseparc	03:00
Compilation	Moist & Tender - You're On My Way	Toronto Calling	02:42
Zipper	Another Boyfriend	Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls	02:52
Scenics	I Have You	Underneath the Door	02:07
Extras	Sporting Life	The Road to Zambando	03:50
Rational Youth	I Want To See the Light	I Want to See the Light	03:55
B-Sides	Regular Guy	Red to Black	02:35
Benjamin Russell	Gentle Charms	Madman	01:48
Kultur	Altar	Kultur	03:59
Compilation	Voodoo - Stormy Eyes	Toronto Calling	04:34
Benjamin Russell	One Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:55
Klō	Weirdo	Fun b/w Weirdo	03:32
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	01:00
The Front	The Haunting (Jimmy Loves Mary-Ann)	Gina's at a Party	04:07
Modernes Pickles	Savage Heels	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:30
Drama	Space Age Punks	Loneliness	02:37
Mannequin Depressives	Dissolve	Girls Are Evil	01:45
Lou Champagne System	Selling So Sweet	No Visible Means	02:48
Rational Youth	Cité phosphore	Cité phosphoree b/w Le meilleur des mondes	04:05
Compilation	Sigi Jonsson - Trying To Find Her	Toronto Calling	02:25
Glamorcult	Mine is the Maiden	Early Glamour	04:39
Glamatron	Factor 2-2-2	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:53
Spoons	Bed of Nails	Vertigo Tango	04:38
Regulators	That´s Right Nothing's Left	What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)	02:53
The Scene (2)	Egos Trip	Only in Paradise	06:34
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:12
Extras	I Never Told You, I Told You So	The Watcher (EP)	04:26
True Confessions	26264	ST	02:15
Voice	Lime	Anno Di Voce	02:58
Compilation	Frantics - Asleep With the Light On	Saskatoon Rocks	03:31
Instructions	The Extra	ST	03:12
DeMars	Le fou sur l'île	Les Télé-Têtes	04:04
Joe Naylor	I Hate Fluorescent Lights	I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights	03:24
Tenants	Forget About Forgetting	ST	03:53
Modernes Pickles	Are You a Martian	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	04:03
Numbers	Out to You	Add Up	02:27
Scenics	Garthuson	New Part In Town	02:16
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Over Mountains	Ohama aka The White Album	03:14
NEO A4	Say This to Me	ST	03:31
Theo Vandenhoff	I Wish I Was a Painter	Saviour on the Spilled Blood	07:01
Tim Ray	Now What Was That	ST	02:58
I Braineater	Davie Street	I Here, Where You	02:54
FM109	Food On Nuclear Device	ST	06:38
Spoons	Red Light	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:44
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Exit From a Dream	05:27
e	Coincidence	Reaction b/w Coincidence	03:06
Vital Sines	Climbing the Air	Big Dark Dreams	03:09
Lorne Ranger	I Want to be a Doorman	I Want to be a Doorman	04:02
Images In Vogue	Promised Land	In The House	06:03
Tyro	City Life	A Little More Time (EP)	03:02

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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