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
Decade of Dreams	One Night in Bohemia	Wild Colloquial	03:50
Spoons	Annita	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:21
A Day in Paris	jUsT tHe sAmE	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:42
Tenants	Death of Innocence	Visions of Our Future	03:39
Channel Five	So Good to Me	ST (EP)	03:17
Compilation	Winston Hancock - Leavin' Tonite	No Pedestrians	02:05
Rave Revues	Nightmares	Voices	03:36
Channel Five	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
Tenants	Let 'Em Go	Visions of Our Future	04:28
Glamorcult	Theories of Modern Affection	A Price To Paris	04:27
Drastic Measures	T.N.T.	ST	03:51
John Young Paul	Have You Seen the Boy in the Gutter with the Broken Mind?	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:10
Kaméléon	Un p'tit coup	ST	04:03
Age of Mirrors	Everything Looks The Same	Mirage	03:38
Compilation	The Sturm Group - Upon a Nerve (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:34
Golden Calgarians	New Desperados	New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)	03:07
Thieves	I See Red	I See Red	04:27
Hot Tip	Never Look Back	Stop All Motion	03:25
Handful of Snowdrops	As Thought Outside but Looking In (Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:06
A Neon Rome	You Should Fear Us	New Heroin	05:44
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Planet Nine	Exit From a Dream	05:21
Fictions	I Let Go	ST	02:26
Tyro	A Little More Time	A Little More Time (EP)	02:11
Kaméléon	Smarties (1983)	Groupe électro-pop	04:54
Golden Calgarians	Thousand Chains	Savage Love	03:51
Border	All in All	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:53
Pukka Orchestra	Weekend (Come Alive!)	The Palace Of Memeory	06:15
The Hurt	Local Belt	Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)	03:18
Government	Letter to Craig	Electric Eye	04:45
Class Info	I Want	Inside	05:22
Glamorcult	Images of Monlight	Early Glamour	04:19
Contradance	Professional Dads	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	03:40
Drama	God Is a Machine	Loneliness	02:27
Dream Child	Luv On the Line	Heaven Knows b/w Luv On the Line	04:11
Sex Church	Waking Up	Growing Over	05:26
Shanghai Lil	Flower And a Bee	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:28
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	I Tie My Shoes	Ohama aka The White Album	05:58
Handful of Snowdrops	Immortals (1985)	Mort en direct	08:24
Instructions	Learn from Computers	ST	04:15
Glamorcult	If Only You Knew	A Price To Paris	03:33
Timothy Chipman	Night Patrol	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:22
The Vox	Bored of the 80's	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	02:37
Direktive 17	Between the Lines	ST (EP)	03:42
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Voices Like Thunder	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	04:00
Hush	Dancing in East Berlin	Replay	04:17
Two Men Laughing	Dancing in Moscow	Imprisoned Lorri b/w Dancing in Moscow (picture sleeve)	02:53
Corsage	Troubles	ST	04:57
The Play	Atlantic City	Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City	03:30
45's	Say You'll Be Mine	On the Beach	03:15
Eight Seconds	Sincere	Almacantar	04:27
Inner Sanction	I Cherish	Dancematic-Automatic	03:10
UJ3RK5	The Locator	ST (EP)	03:11
Volts	As the Radio Died	Plugged In	03:35
NEO A4	Sex (For Love)	The Warmer Side of You	02:39
This Fear	Soldier of This Fashion (Extended)	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:14
Drastic Measures	Prelude	ST	01:09
Moral Lepers	Dead of Night	Turn to Stone	03:59
Edsells	She Escaped	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	04:22
Instructions	The Extra	ST	03:12
Spoons	Be Alone Tonight	Bridges Over Borders	05:11
Oui	Turn of the Century	Oui	04:13
K	A Thousand Years	Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)	04:13
Glamorcult	Interlude	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:30
Breeding Ground	Underground	Wintergarden (EP)	04:31
Oui	People Talk	Oui	03:50
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heer Comes the Future	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:50
Degrees of Freedom	Call Me Midnight	China	04:51
Lawn	As Yet	Peace in the Valley	02:58
Time Twins	Yuri Song	Yuri Song b/w Say Uncle (picture sleeve)	07:03
Bündock	Tied for Time	Société Anonyme	03:55
Benjamin Russell	Power of Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:37
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama aka The White Album	02:44
Glamorcult	The Bass of Our Style	A Price To Paris	03:53
Land of Giants	Cannibal Dolls	Cannibal Dolls b/w Seven Men	03:32
Compilation	Don Bregg - Hypnotized	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:27
Diodes	Catwalker	Action-Reaction	03:29
Diodes	Everything I Am	Action-Reaction	03:15
Cottage Industry	Leader	The Winter's Tale	03:37
Rational Youth	Bang On	Heredity	04:11
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't You Think I'm Kiddin' Ya	Spunker	02:51
Blueprints	I Fell Down	Stare 01	03:35
Martha And The Muffins	Casualties of Glass	This Is The Ice Age	05:17
Pukka Orchestra	Listen to the Radio	ST	03:48
Bobby and Synthia	Queen Street	thirty-six hours (EP)	04:56
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Don't Be Afraid	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	04:30
I Braineater	Waste	I Here, Where You	02:39
A Fish in C	Touch	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
Hygiene Club	Pantechnicon - for Gary	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	01:15
Wrestlers	G.T.O.	ST	03:32
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:02
John Young Paul	The Boulevards of Hope	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:37
Extras	Sentimental Fool	The Road to Zambando	03:53
Home Grown	Thoughts of You	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:11
Térapi	Breadus Fongus	Primale	02:51
UJ3RK5	Hands of Orlac	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:36
Compilation	Arson - We've Gotta Get Out of this Place	No Pedestrians	04:26
The Presence	Blown Away	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	02:15
Corsage	City Sleeps	ST	04:17
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Of Whales	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:36
Big Dog	Monkey See, Monkey Do	99 Change Hands	01:52

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Awake The Echoes - Normal Life

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Channel Five - ST (EP)

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Our Sir Francis to the Sea - ST

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Electric Mocean - Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)

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No Comment - Wondering b/w Honesty

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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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David Raven & the Escorts - David Raven And The Escorts

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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Bonus Boys - Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time

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Cry - ST

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Friendly Fire - Junior Senility EP

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Second Thoughts - Integrity b/w Wound Up

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Regulators - What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)

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