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
The Modern Minds	The Fear Begins	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:48
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - I Wanna Be In Commercials	Toronto Calling	02:38
Benjamin Russell	Gonna be a Woman Soon	Madman	02:54
The Front	Hit and Run	Underworld	04:14
The Diodes	Time Damage (Sept. 1977 Toronto Sound Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	02:18
I Braineater	Just a Boy	I Here, Where You	02:52
The Diodes	Survivors	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:56
Barking Boys	Too Hot In Here	The Yes Girls	04:39
Glamorcult	The Bass of Our Style	A Price To Paris	03:53
Bobby and Synthia	The Music Stopped	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:36
Volts	No Time Like the First Time	Plugged In	02:52
Moral Lepers	Music is Your Body	Turn to Stone	02:45
Inner Sanction	Mystery & Harmony	Shake Up - Fly Down	04:41
Breeding Ground	Tales of Adventure	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:14
Drama	Loneliness	Loneliness	03:28
Conning Tower	Indian Dancing	Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under	04:40
Land of Giants	Fire With Fire	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:50
I Braineater	Comeon	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:44
Steve Blimkie (and the Reason)	I Got This Feeling	Blimkie	02:13
Vital Sines	Sex & Babies	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:40
Klō	You're Chic	Demo 1981	05:34
Mr. Science	Popeshat	Popeshat b/w Where R the Legs	04:15
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Maurice & The Clichés	Veronika	Veronika	03:40
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	So Far	04:04
Blue Oil	Twenty Years	ST	03:41
Erect	The Colony	Consequence of Life	02:45
A Day in Paris	jUsT tHe sAmE	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:42
Preison's Shade	Don't Leave Me Alone	Race Me Home (EP)	05:11
Secret Act	That Certain Feeling	My Neighbourhood	03:33
Bleu Néon	Survivance	Cité Promise	08:24
Compilation	True Confessions - Fourth Base	No Pedestrians	02:30
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Direct	ST	03:43
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Space and Time	04:26
DeMars	Les enfants dans la lune	Les Télé-Têtes	02:54
Klō	The Parking Lot Song	No Money b/w The Parking Lot Song	02:08
Jon Mullane	One More Chance (for u)	Following Yesterday	04:29
Handful of Snowdrops	Over My Head (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:44
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Of Whales	Midnite News	06:22
FM109	S.O.S.	ST	03:54
The Government	I'm Somebody	Electric Eye	01:36
Tenants	Let 'Em Go	Visions of Our Future	04:28
ACTORS	Jacknife	Reanimated	04:24
The Front	You Can't Do That	Underworld	03:54
Philip Rambow	Creature Comforts	Jungle Law	02:28
Tim Ray	Preamble - One Last Look (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	06:21
Absolute 9	We're Waiting	ST	02:40
Fictions	Better	ST	02:31
Secret Act	My Neighbourhood	My Neighbourhood	05:51
Nowhere	No More	No More b/w Living	04:56
Palace at 4 a.m.	Young and Italian	Untamed World	03:16
The Diodes	Hot Sand (1981 Remixed Version 2017)	Rarities	03:18
DeMars	Le fou sur l'île	Les Télé-Têtes	04:04
Blue Peter	Living in the Eighties	Test Patterns For Living	02:26
Scissors	Do You Like it?	ST	02:20
Benjamin Russell	Shadows Dancing	Pop Modern(e)	04:15
Tabby K	Summertime	Summertime b/w Wind Or Water	03:42
Images In Vogue	Anxiety Reaction	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:00
Family Plot	Wings of Fate	Convictions	04:02
Scenics	O Boy	Underneath the Door	01:58
Streetcar Named Desire	Someday Your Ship Will Come (Dance Mix)	Life Begins	04:17
The Play	Whispers in the Air	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:50
Compilation	Colin Davison - Love's Gone	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Kaméléon	Microcosme (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	03:45
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Can't Find the Key	Music Industry Arts 1983	05:45
Klō	Dreaming	Demo 1982	03:54
Instructions	Cleek	ST	02:56
Nex'd	Flexible	Surreal (EP)	06:21
Philip Rambow	The Manison on the Hill	Jungle Law	04:25
Two Men Laughing	Dancing in Moscow	Imprisoned Lorri b/w Dancing in Moscow (picture sleeve)	02:53
Drastic Measures	Big Town Boy (Shirley Matthews)	ST	02:00
Vital Sines	Hype	Collage	04:43
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Scissors	Don't Call Me Chick	ST	02:17
Modernes Pickles	I Left my Heart in Charlesbourg	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	05:20
Mettle	All You Wanted	ST	03:59
Cardboard Brains	And So I Hide	Live At The Edge	03:46
A Neon Rome	The Prayer	New Heroin	06:01
Age of Mirrors	Orange Blossom Special	Mirage	04:00
Johnny Faith	Standing On the Red Line	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:52
Wrestlers	Dance of the Drunk	ST	02:37
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News IV	I Fear What I Might Hear	07:58
Odd Man Out	Whatever Happened to Us	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	04:02
Theo Vandenhoff	Eight Of Swords	Heartache Is An Empty Room	03:02
Hunger Project	The Same Inside	The Same Inside b/w Assembly	04:49
Eight Seconds	Sincere	Almacantar	04:27
Family Plot	My Mad Friend	Convictions	05:06
Klō	Mrs. Fong	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	02:32
Tau Ceti	Radiation (fallout mix 86)	So Far	04:15
Philip Rambow	Magnificient Obsession	Jungle Law	03:39
Handful of Snowdrops	The View (1984)	Mort en direct	05:16
Glamorcult	Keep On Dreaming	Atlantis Under the Sea	04:31
Vital Sines	Big Dark Dreams	Big Dark Dreams	05:25
Blue Peter	Cloak and Dagger	Test Patterns For Living	03:45
Lawn	Over the Top	Peace in the Valley	03:00
Vital Sines	Sorry	Big Dark Dreams	04:32
Images In Vogue	Flashing Black	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:30
Salty Seamen	Lime Green Blues	In The Groove At Last	02:29
Einstein	Man-Child	Sex and Science	03:38
Lou Champagne System	Do Something	No Visible Means	04:34

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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