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
Rational Youth	Heredity	Heredity	04:18
Pukka Orchestra	Might as Well be on Mars	ST	05:05
Benjamin Russell	Orphans	Pop Modern(e)	03:35
Diodes	Curiousity Girl	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:52
Cardboard Brains	Jungles	Live At The Edge	02:17
Breeding Ground	Reunion	Reunion // Slaughter	04:54
Kinetic Ideals	Animalistic	Reason (EP)	05:09
Bicycle Thieves	Picking Up Pens	ST	04:17
Einstein	Elusive Temptress	Sex and Science	04:48
Glamorcult	Interlude	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:31
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Gaslit Squares	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:56
Rarefaction	All the Broken Seams	Ordinary Man	03:44
Images In Vogue	In the House (Extended Dance Remix)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	08:25
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:19
Moral Support	Chasing Rainbows	Insanity	04:20
Awake The Echoes	The Best Thing	Normal Life	02:38
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind (OHMix)	Space and Time	04:55
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Time Twins	Say Uncle	Yuri Song b/w Say Uncle (picture sleeve)	04:16
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Now They've Landed (Harmonics)	Space and Time	05:01
Land of Giants	Fire With Fire	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:50
Compilation	Dave Howard Singers - Road Warrior	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	08:01
Tenants	Schoolgirl	ST	02:47
Benjamin Russell	Video Freak	Pop Modern(e)	04:17
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower and the Hippies	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:48
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News	Midnite News	07:10
Secret Act	My Neighbourhood	My Neighbourhood	05:51
The Play	Running Out of Time	Running Out of Time b/w Whatever it Takes	03:15
Einstein	Truck-Stop Girls	Sex and Science	03:24
Kinetic Ideals	I Remember	Touch Me (Now)	05:10
Golden Calgarians	Happy Man	Savage Love	02:10
Drama	Feable	Loneliness	03:42
Bunny & the Lakers	Batlore	Numbers	03:05
Golden Calgarians	New Desperados	New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)	03:07
Barking Boys	Open City	The Yes Girls	04:07
Family Plot	Stag Party	Convictions	03:33
Psyche	The Saint Became a Lush	Unveiling The Secret	06:25
Breeding Ground	Epic	Tales of Adventure (EP)	06:43
Streetcar Named Desire	Yesteryear	Life Begins	02:58
Handful of Snowdrops	Face to Face (Interim Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	06:33
Volts	Words on the Wind	Plugged In	02:48
Austra	The Noise	Feel it Break	03:31
Numbers	Sideways Elevator	Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it	03:09
Spoons	Walk the Plank	Arias & Symphonies	04:26
Spoons	Walk Across the Water	Bridges Over Borders	04:44
Breeding Ground	Happy Now I Know	Tales of Adventure (EP)	03:45
Tyro	City Life	A Little More Time (EP)	03:02
Hush	Now Reality (edited)	Replay	06:01
Scenics	Garthuson	New Part In Town	02:16
Age of Mirrors	Crazy After Dark	Screenplay	04:56
The End	My Paradise	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	02:59
Secret Act	Helpless	My Neighbourhood	04:14
Martha And The Muffins	World Without Borders	Danseparc	03:08
Spoons	A Girl in Two Pieces	Arias & Symphonies	04:27
Family Plot	Gravedigger	Convictions	02:19
Andrew Matheson	Tender is the Night	Monterey Shoes	05:51
The Front	Someday	Gina's at a Party	03:34
Tenants	How Do You Sleep at Night?	ST	04:34
NEO A4	Time for Me Now	ST	04:42
Glamorcult	I Tell Him	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:00
Modern Minds	Wasted Lives	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	03:01
Land of Giants	Key to Your Heart	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	02:50
Zipper	Slowtown Rats	Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll) b/w Slowtown Rats	02:51
Moev	Photos	Dusk and Desire	04:50
Strange Advance	Kiss in the Dark	Worlds Away	03:56
Broken Tables	Image of You	ST	04:24
Diodes	That Was the Way it Was (Eastern Sound Demo 1979)	Rarities	04:27
Blueprints	Tribute to a Fool	Stare 01	03:50
A Neon Rome	The Magical Summer of '85	New Heroin	03:17
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	ST (mini album)	05:27
Land of Giants	Cannibal Dolls	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
The Vox	Mary-Go-Round	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	03:29
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	So Far	04:14
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - I Wanna Be In Commercials	Toronto Calling	02:38
Modern Minds	Slap in the Face	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
Awake The Echoes	You're More Trouble Than You' re Worth	Normal Life	03:58
Deserters	Present Life	ST	03:21
Rex Chainbelt	Run Away	Foreign Movie	02:43
Generra	Don’t Cut Me	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	03:57
Glamorcult	This Is Our Story	The Stone Sessions	03:44
True Confessions	Mating Games	ST	03:06
Glamorcult	Session 2 (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	03:24
Lou Champagne System	Don't Say I'm Here	No Visible Means	03:27
Thieves	Kopper & Iron	I See Red	03:38
Images In Vogue	Masks	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:56
Figures At Dawn	Sons of the Century	ST	04:36
Glen Meadmore	Blissful Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:24
Martha And The Muffins	Danseparc (Every Day It's Tomorrow)	Danseparc	03:22
Bündock	Stand Still	Société Anonyme	02:45
Compilation	Conditioned Response - Are You Responding	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:28
Martha And The Muffins	Women Around the World at Work	This Is The Ice Age	03:59
Images In Vogue	Quiet Room	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	03:32
Psyche	Suffocation	Insomnia Theatre	03:10
Darkroom	Don't Talk	San Paku	03:32
Paperboys (1)	Looking for Sharon	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	02:57
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin' to Glide	Are Here	05:43
Utopiate	You've Been Warned	You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance	03:41
Glamatron	Passport (Instrumental)	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:30
Rave Revues	Nightmares	Voices	03:36
DeMars	Out of Sight	Songs From Between The Walls	05:25

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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DeMars - Songs From Between The Walls

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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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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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Channel Five - ST (EP)

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

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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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