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
Vital Sines	Subway Suicide	Subway Suicide E.P.	04:51
Martha And The Muffins	Indecision	Metro Music	04:23
Modern Minds	All Day & All of the Night	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:18
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Planet Nine	Exit From a Dream	05:21
Corsage	Troubles	ST	04:57
Martha And The Muffins	One Day in Paris	This Is The Ice Age	04:20
Skoolboyz	Where's My Waitress?	ST (EP)	03:05
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Can't Find the Key	Music Industry Arts 1983	05:45
Blue Peter	Living in the Eighties	Test Patterns For Living	02:26
Handful of Snowdrops	A Miracle	Land of the Damned	04:54
Palace at 4 a.m.	Palace at 4 A.M.	Untamed World	01:25
John Young Paul	Angels With Dirty Faces	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:33
DeMars	Even for All Those Years	Stories from between the Walls	04:39
Spoons	Smiling in Winter	Arias & Symphonies	04:05
Numbers	Leave it to Me	Add Up	03:56
Glen Meadmore	Girlene	Chicken & Biscuits	05:07
Mettle	The Second Person	ST	03:47
39 Steps	Just Amphetamine	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:51
Living End (1)	Naive	ST	02:25
Images In Vogue	Breaking Up	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	05:26
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - I Wanna Be In Commercials	Toronto Calling	02:38
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	T.V.	Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.	04:33
Kultur	Here it Comes	Kultur	03:11
Images In Vogue	Worlds of Noise	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:30
Diodes	Mercenary Flight (1978 Alternate Version) (CD only)	Rarities	03:21
Scenics	O Charlotte	New Part In Town	03:44
Kaméléon	Pique-nique (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	02:22
Cannon Heath Down	Belly Through	Heart-Throb Companion	04:32
Age of Mirrors	Crazy After Dark	Screenplay	04:56
Land of Giants	Fountains in the Rain	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:30
Tyro	City Life	A Little More Time (EP)	03:02
CosmaNat	Camping Song	Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)	02:17
Breeding Ground	This Time Tomorrow	Tales of Adventure (EP)	04:01
Extras	Sentimental Fool	The Road to Zambando	03:53
I Braineater	Comeon	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:44
I Braineater	Just a Boy	I Here, Where You	02:52
Rational Youth	No More and No Less	Heredity	04:06
Tenants	Forget About Forgetting	ST	03:53
Cannon Heath Down	Having Dreams	Heart-Throb Companion	02:14
Kinetic Ideals	Fade Away	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	07:44
Thieves	Color	I See Red	04:09
Drama	Human Question	Loneliness	02:38
The Play	Midnight Dreams	Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City	03:12
Boys Brigade	Into the Flow	ST	05:09
Diodes	Everything I Am	Action-Reaction	03:15
Living End	Death at an Early Age	Death at an Early Age b/w Magic Carpet Ride	03:12
Diodes	Lost in the Dark	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
Bündock	Season for Love	Société Anonyme	04:11
Klō	Dreaming	Demo 1982	03:54
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Baby, Baby	Space and Time	03:35
Rolf Kempf	One More Time	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:26
Kinetic Ideals	Absurdity	Reason (EP)	05:23
Erect	The Colony	Consequence of Life	02:45
Drastic Measures	Jump Off the Lake	ST	02:37
Deserters	Protection	ST	03:20
The Patterns	Afraid to Touch	Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen	03:57
Handful of Snowdrops	Alice in Wonderland (1992)	Mort en direct	05:20
Men Without Hats	I Got the Message	The Safety Dance	04:47
Tenants	I Love Romance	ST	03:55
Kinetic Ideals	Angular Sky	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	06:57
Cinebar	Another Fine Day	Another Fine Day	03:37
Drama	Jungle Chant	Loneliness	03:28
Glamorcult	A Farewell to Arms	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	02:35
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:02
Scissors	Wrecked My Car	ST	02:16
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Lindsay	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:11
Government	Following You (Reprise)	Electric Eye	02:15
Volts	As the Radio Died	Plugged In	03:35
Corsage	Baby Said	ST	03:37
Null Set	Judgement Days	New Job (EP)	02:19
Palace at 4 a.m.	White Guilt	White Guilt	04:34
Rational Youth	Just a Sound in the Night (remix)	ST (mini album)	03:45
BB Gabor	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry)	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	02:41
Eight Seconds	Call and a Cry	Almacantar	04:11
Second Thoughts	Wound Up	Integrity b/w Wound Up	02:50
Quasi Hands	Oil Barons	ST	03:49
Glamorcult	Dream Girl (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	03:43
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Crusaders	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	03:49
Diodes	Parasite (1977 previously unreleased)	Rarities	03:17
A Day in Paris	Prey	Prey	04:56
I Before E	Power of Reason	Power of Reason b/w Cocktails	02:23
Age of Mirrors	The Day the Earth Stands Still - Breathless	Mirage	05:44
Kaméléon	Genocide genethliaque	ST	04:03
Escalators	Wooly Bully	ST	03:58
Handful of Snowdrops	Second by Second (Bonus Track)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:47
The Play	Atlantic City	Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City	03:30
James Harcourt	Emotional Blackmail	Emotional Blackmail	02:21
Psyche	Illusion	The Influence	04:26
Me And the Mosquitos	Valium	Go Away b/w Valium	03:03
Compilation	A Carnival Night - Untitled	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	02:43
Blue Peter	Time and Money	Test Patterns For Living	02:07
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midway	Midway b/w Thin Lines	06:29
B-Sides	She's a Raver (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	01:34
Salty Seamen	I'm Done	In The Groove At Last	03:50
100 Flowers	Rooftops	21st Guessing	03:25
Nex'd	Surreal	Surreal (EP)	05:45
Tower Bridge	Perfection	Perfection b/w Out of My Mind Girl (picture sleeve)	04:07
Faded Films	The Top	Faded Years	02:43
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:30
Austra	The Villain	Feel it Break	04:06

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Tim Ray - ST

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Voice - Anno Di Voce

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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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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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