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
Psyche	Illusion	The Influence	04:26
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Instrumental)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:18
Popular Front (1)	We One	This is the Rubicon	04:59
Red Herring	The Crab Song	Taste Tests	03:57
Psyche	Misery	The Influence	04:06
Pukka Orchestra	Flies (as Big as Your Fist)	ST	03:13
Strange Advance	Automatic Sighs	Worlds Away	04:41
Hot Tip	Hard to be Me	Stop All Motion	03:50
Avril Chown	Losin’ Sight	American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight	03:53
Within Gothic Towers	Day Dreaming	Within Gothic Towers	03:14
Glamorcult	Would It Be Over	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:28
Cannon Heath Down	Having Dreams	Heart-Throb Companion	02:14
Figures At Dawn	Love Will Know	ST	03:50
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heart of the Mind	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:27
Channel Five	So Good to Me	ST (EP)	03:17
Volts	Can't Hold on Too Long	Plugged In	03:15
Martha And The Muffins	Sins of Children	Danseparc	05:37
Glen Meadmore	Blissful Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:24
B-Sides	Late at Night	Red to Black	03:28
Glamorcult	Crestfallen	A Price To Paris	03:37
Villains	Lovers	Go Crazy	03:03
FM109	S.O.S.	ST	03:54
Corsage	Down at the Rock	ST	03:26
John Young Paul	The Girl Spells Grief	The Life of Ermie Scub	01:38
Government	Greetings from the Gutter (Reprise)	Electric Eye	00:50
Rave Revues	Living in the Shadows	Voices	04:07
Compilation	Diatribe - Air Radio	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	03:34
Extras	I’ll be Wanting You	The Road to Zambando	04:15
Braineaters	Screw You	Planet X	01:44
Preison's Shade	Don't Leave Me Alone	Race Me Home (EP)	05:11
Compilation	The Secrets - All the Words	No Pedestrians	02:52
Spoons	Don't Shoot the Messenger	Talkback	03:19
Andrew Matheson	Tender is the Night	Monterey Shoes	05:51
Melinite	Seasoning	Push The Button And Run!	01:23
Blue Peter	Factory Living	Test Patterns For Living	02:50
Diodes	Burn Down Your Daddy's House	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:16
Handful of Snowdrops	The Keep - When Comes Daylight (1986-87)	Mort en direct	07:30
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Can't Find the Key	Music Industry Arts 1983	05:45
Decade of Dreams	Sarah	Wild Colloquial	02:26
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Glamorcult	After the Battle	Early Glamour	03:12
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Stop	Spunker	02:57
Figures At Dawn	Letters from London	ST	04:14
FM109	Help	ST	02:11
The Presence	Mechanoid	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	03:55
Government	It Must be God-Downtown	Electric Eye	02:52
Handful of Snowdrops	Terroir I	Land of the Damned	02:41
Compilation	Conditioned Response - Are You Responding	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:28
Government	Letter to Craig	Electric Eye	04:45
A Neon Rome	You Should Fear Us	A Neon Rome	05:44
Glamorcult	Shadows From The Past	Shadows From The Past	03:54
Handful of Snowdrops	Astronauts (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:31
Eight Seconds	Happy Endings	Big Houses	03:46
Toe Beat	Stranger	Stranger	03:42
Kaméléon	Smarties (1983)	Groupe électro-pop	04:54
NEO A4	One's Enough	ST	03:40
Tau Ceti	Bathed in Dark Light (rhythm version)	So Far	05:23
Kaméléon	Les chats balerines (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:01
Scenics	Tokyo	New Part In Town	04:07
Barking Boys	Here She Comes	The Yes Girls	03:55
Cardboard Brains	Caesar Drives a Fast Car	Live At The Edge	03:06
Reasons	Playing With Your Heart	Reasonable Rock (EP)	03:53
Spoons	No More Growing Up	Arias & Symphonies	03:25
Land of Giants	Thing Called Love	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	06:57
Oui	People Talk	Oui	03:50
Land of Giants	Security Squad	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
Compilation	Steve Wood - Black and Whites	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:06
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Exit From a Dream	04:54
Instructions	Don't Say Love	ST	03:46
Scenics	I'm Sad	New Part In Town	05:04
Numbers	She's Got Everything	Add Up	02:38
39 Steps	Teachers	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:22
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heer Comes the Future	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:50
Benjamin Russell	Dance Man	Pop Modern(e)	04:12
Compilation	Jenerentola - Lagata (Jenerentola)	Strange Pleasures EP	06:32
Moev	M.T. M.T. N.M.E.	Zimmerkampf	05:15
Magic Dragon	Egyptian Radio	Emotional Landscape	04:12
Psyche	Haunted	The Influence	04:10
Rave Revues	Nightmares	Voices	03:36
Glamorcult	In Time (Only to be Free)	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:17
Iko	Model Type A	83	05:08
A Neon Rome	You Should Fear Us	New Heroin	05:44
Johnny Zhivago	New Things	Microalbum	03:19
Rob Bryanton	Another Day, Another Show	Alcohol And Other Drugs	03:15
Martha And The Muffins	Revenge (Against the World)	Metro Music	03:31
Handful of Snowdrops	Ends & Meanings (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:00
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Space and Time	05:20
Decade of Dreams	The Bridge	Wild Colloquial	03:31
Modern Minds	Girl Crazy	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:22
Handful of Snowdrops	The Keep (Interim Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:31
Andrew Matheson	Eyes of Harlem	Monterey Shoes	07:44
Carbon Unit	The Marsh	The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)	02:45
Age of Mirrors	She Cracks Me Up	Screenplay	03:39
Drastic Measures	Silk Stockings	ST	02:38
Low Fun	Words We Left Behind	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	03:41
Spoons	Nova Heart	Arias & Symphonies	05:46
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Dada	If I'm Blind	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:46
Timothy Chipman	Old Shoes, New Dreams	Ghost Parade	01:33
Handful of Snowdrops	Immortals (1985)	Mort en direct	08:24

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Diodes - Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981

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Diodes - Rarities

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Diodes - Action-Reaction

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Scenics - New Part In Town

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