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
Kinetic Ideals	In a Second	A Personal View (EP)	06:59
John Young Paul	Ermie has Feelers	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:25
Nex'd	Flexible	Surreal (EP)	06:21
Compilation	Voodoo - Stormy Eyes	Toronto Calling	04:34
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:02
Joe Naylor	I'm Canadian Beer	I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights	02:23
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't Look Now	Spunker	03:44
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Man Who Never Sleeps	Untamed World	04:10
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't You Think I'm Kiddin' Ya	Spunker	02:51
Tau Ceti	Bathed in Dark Light (rhythm version)	So Far	05:23
Images In Vogue	Call it Love	In The House	03:51
Absolute 9	The Gift	ST	03:03
IQ	Burn Me	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:53
Dancespeak	Heart of My Song	Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)	03:49
Compilation	Moist & Tender - You're On My Way	Toronto Calling	02:42
John Young Paul	Surrender to the Void	The Life of Ermie Scub	04:05
Compilation	Vital Sines - Not My World (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:15
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Planet Nine	Exit From a Dream	05:21
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News III	Midnite News	04:25
Kinetic Ideals	Together	A Personal View (EP)	05:54
Lawn	Catwalk Slip	Peace in the Valley	03:24
Kaméléon	Microcosme (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	03:45
Images In Vogue	Travel	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	05:34
Mobile Clones	The Pulse	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:45
Compilation	Dave Howard Singers - Road Warrior	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	08:01
Moral Support	Whatever Turns You On	Insanity	04:10
Rheostatics	Satellite Dancing	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:31
Shanghai Lil	Flower And a Bee	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:28
Scenics	Mony Mony	Underneath the Door	02:52
Psyche	Wink of an Eye	Insomnia Theatre	05:37
Moral Lepers	Beryl Bean	Turn to Stone	02:41
Bicycle Thieves	Picking Up Pens	ST	04:17
NEO A4	Is This It	The Warmer Side of You	03:32
Térapi	Rock'a'tchooka	Primale	03:16
Diodes	Heat or the Beat	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:38
British Properties	Niag'ra Falls	Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls	03:26
Scenics	One Comes Closer	Underneath the Door	03:18
Breeding Ground	Turn to Dust	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:20
100 Flowers	Haunted	21st Guessing	05:09
Extras	I Never Told You, I Told You So	The Watcher (EP)	04:26
Diodes	Lawn Boy Lover (1977 previously unreleased)	Rarities	02:33
Government	I Don't Really Care	Electric Eye	04:04
Barking Boys	Cool It Down	The Yes Girls	04:11
Rex Chainbelt	Bruised & Beaten	Foreign Movie	02:30
Drastic Measures	Silk Stockings	ST	02:38
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls b/w Seven Men	05:12
Entrance System	Imperfect Image	Imperfect Image	03:38
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	A Neon Rome	05:20
Rave Revues	Everyone’s a Critic	Voices	06:45
Breeding Ground	Dirge	Wintergarden (EP)	06:25
Cannon Heath Down	A Charming Sound	Heart-Throb Companion	04:25
Salty Seamen	In the Groove at Last	In The Groove At Last	02:35
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Over Mountains	Ohama aka The White Album	03:14
Nevermen	Living in the Past	The Monitor LP	04:17
Doppler Bros.	I Wanna Write for the Muzak Man	Totally Impractical	03:58
The End	My Paradise	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	02:59
Drama	Traffic	Loneliness	02:53
Roland Blinn	Tense	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	02:27
Tribal Earth	Who You Are (In the Movies)	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	02:46
Eight Seconds	Listen	Almacantar	05:17
Eight Seconds	No Picasso	Big Houses	05:04
Awake The Echoes	Someone	Normal Life	04:07
3rd Man In	New Fast	New Fast b/w What to Believe (picture sleeve)	03:18
Timothy Chipman	Night Patrol	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:22
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Talking About	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:06
Voice	Lime	Anno Di Voce	02:58
Design	No Turning Back (remix)	No Turning Back	03:55
Handful of Snowdrops	From One Place to Another (1990)	Mort en direct	05:11
Tin Twist	Sitting Here, Waiting Here	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	02:32
Bumpers	Media Music	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:30
I Braineater	Comeon	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:44
Compilation	Conditioned Response - Are You Responding	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:28
Cardboard Brains	Have You Seen The Boy In The Gutter With The Broken Mind?	Live At The Edge	02:05
A Neon Rome	Islam	New Heroin	10:18
Oui	Intelligence	Oui	03:56
Martha And The Muffins	Was Ezo	Trance and Dance	03:58
Ohm & the Secret Sources	City of the Shadow	Space and Time	03:57
Reid My Lyps	Susie Don't Run	Susie Don't Run b/w Susie Don't Run	03:57
Psyche	Wake the Flood Unconscious	Mystery Hotel	02:53
Age of Mirrors	Raiders of the Heart	Screenplay	03:39
Volts	Words on the Wind	Plugged In	02:48
Andrew Matheson	St. Catherines Wheel	Monterey Shoes	05:37
Images In Vogue	Masks	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:56
Erect	She's a Bitch	Consequence of Life	03:14
Melinite	For Now	Push The Button And Run!	03:37
This Fear	Soldier of This Fashion (Extended)	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:14
Handful of Snowdrops	Somewhere Higher (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:25
Nevermen	Real Life	The Monitor LP	05:10
Fictions	Do it With the Lights On	ST	03:07
Living End (1)	Time is Unkind	ST	03:11
Glamorcult	Time Will Pass On By	Shadows From The Past	04:38
DeMars	Déchéance	Les Télé-Têtes	03:41
Drastic Measures	Jump Off the Lake	ST	02:37
Pukka Orchestra	Listen to the Radio	ST	03:48
Glamorcult	Yes, See Has the Afterglow	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:32
Modern Minds	Another World	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:15
Sebastian (Agnello)	Stop Picking On America	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:23
Thieves	Screams	I See Red	04:40
James Harcourt	Hook or By Crrok	Emotional Blackmail	03:33
Rarefaction	I Dreamt	Abstract Minds b/w I Dreamt (picture sleeve)	04:04

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Hygiene Club - Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary

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Avril Chown - American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight

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Kultur - Kultur

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The Idles - The Idles Demo

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Hunger Project - Demo 1982

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Hunger Project - The Same Inside b/w Assembly

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Boys Brigade - Interview with Boys Brigade and Producer Geddy Lee

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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Voice - Anno Di Voce

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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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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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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