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 Scene (2)	Egos Trip	Only in Paradise	06:34
Frigidaires	5 Guys Named Moe	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:14
Glamorcult	She Doesn't Believe In The Magic	The Stone Sessions	03:57
Strange Advance	Love Games	Worlds Away	03:51
Bangkok	Planet of My Own	Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own	03:04
Klō	Weirdo	Demo 1981	04:01
Ohm & the Secret Sources	City of the Shadow	Space and Time	03:57
Compilation	True Confessions - Fourth Base	No Pedestrians	02:30
Channel 5	Breaking Ground	ST (EP)	03:23
Rational Youth	Saturdays in Silesia	Cold War Nightlife	04:21
Absolute 9	Fence	ST	02:58
Magic Dragon	Memories	Emotional Landscape	04:11
Martha And The Muffins	Be Blase	Trance and Dance	02:42
Handful of Snowdrops	A Short Story (1985)	Mort en direct	07:10
Null Set	Rubber Wings	New Job (EP)	03:31
Martha And The Muffins	Saigon	Metro Music	04:23
Redlife	Hope for Tomorrow	Hope for Tomorrow b/w Round	03:44
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Living End (1)	In Your Dreams	ST	02:48
Modernettes	Femme Fatale	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:53
Kinetic Ideals	I Remember	Touch Me (Now)	05:10
Glamorcult	Yes, See Has the Afterglow	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:32
Martha And The Muffins	Sins of Children	Danseparc	05:37
Barking Boys	Open City	The Yes Girls	04:07
The Edge	Play the Game	Release the Circle	04:07
Modernettes	The Rebel Kind	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:08
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Body of Vagrant Waves	I Fear What I Might Hear	08:36
Rex Chainbelt	Test Tube Baby	Foreign Movie	01:53
A Day in Paris	Goodbye	Prey	03:24
Cardboard Brains	The Monster in Ed	Live At The Edge	03:26
Wrestlers	Dance of the Drunk	ST	02:37
Sound FX	She Stole My Heart	Sound FX	03:46
Glamorcult	On The Line	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:04
Popular Front (1)	September Reign	This is the Rubicon	03:12
Blue Oil	Innocent Boys	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:45
Glamorcult	Time Is Running Out	Shadows From The Past	03:16
Handful of Snowdrops	White Dominoes (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:11
Avril Chown	Losin’ Sight	American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight	03:53
UJ3RK5	Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	06:32
Glamorcult	Shadows From The Past (Part 2)	Shadows From The Past	03:19
Scott Matthews	Boats in Rivers	Boats in Rivers	04:50
Corsage	Victory Square	ST	04:16
Rational Youth	No More and No Less	Heredity	04:06
Compilation	Vital Sines - Not My World (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:15
Maurice & The Clichés	Social Casualties	C'est la vie	02:36
Maurice & The Clichés	Skyline	C'est la vie	03:49
Tame & Talking	Conditioned Manaid	ST	04:01
The Front	Robbery	Underworld	04:21
Decade of Dreams	Stop This Car	Wild Colloquial	02:12
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Thin Lines	Midway b/w Thin Lines	05:53
Martha And The Muffins	Sinking Land	Metro Music	05:28
Volts	Loneliness in the Air Age	Plugged In	02:43
The Chemicals	Run and Hide	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	02:49
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Space and Time	04:49
Glamorcult	Cry	Shadows From The Past	03:35
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Don't Wanna Hear This Song	Spunker	02:16
Minutes From Downtown	Emotion Under Pressure	Minutes From Downtown '82	04:14
Hush	Dancing in East Berlin	Replay	04:17
Inner Sanction	I Cherish	Dancematic-Automatic	03:10
The Play	Atlantic City	Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City	03:30
Palace at 4 a.m.	Untamed World	Untamed World	03:52
Images In Vogue	Welcome to Sorrow	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:07
Maurice & The Clichés	Veronika	Veronika	03:40
Bumpers	Media Music	EP	02:28
Spoons	Capitol Hill	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:37
Philip Rambow	Love is a Hard Time	Jungle Law	04:19
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Man Who Never Sleeps	Untamed World	04:10
100 Flowers	Nothing is Hard	21st Guessing	04:31
Spoons	Bed of Nails	Vertigo Tango	04:38
Compilation	Mark Malibu And The Wasagas - Buzz Beat	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	04:12
Glamorcult	Silent Reflection	A Price To Paris	03:59
Maurice & The Clichés	Top Forty	ST	03:37
Tim Ray	Hate (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:22
B-Sides	She's a Raver (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:06
ACTORS	It Goes Away	Reanimated	03:46
Spoons	Annita	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:21
Benjamin Russell	Can You See Me?	Madman	01:27
Channel 5	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	A Giant Starfish	Ohama aka The White Album	04:11
Hot Tip	Father I Know	Stop All Motion	04:18
Eight Seconds	Listen	Almacantar	05:17
Compilation	Glamatron - Klüb	The Circuit	02:28
ACTORS	CTRL	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:15
Entrance System	No Relative	Imperfect Image	03:19
Ceramic Hello	M - EX	The Absence of a Canary	00:23
Quasi Hands	Oil Barons	ST	03:49
Vital Sines	Big Dark Dreams	Big Dark Dreams	05:25
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lola	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:08
Térapi	Espèce de stress	Primale	02:33
Roland Blinn	Tense	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	02:27
A Neon Rome	The Magical Summer of '85	New Heroin	03:17
Spoons	Perfect Exception	New Day New World	03:58
FM109	S.O.S.	ST	03:54
Numbers	Can't Take it	Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it	03:42
Rex Chainbelt	Run Away	Foreign Movie	02:43
Modernes Pickles	Colors	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:09
NEO A4	Understand	ST	04:01
Volts	As the Radio Died	Plugged In	03:35
Men Without Hats	Utter Space	Folk of the 80's (EP)	02:44
Jon Mullane	Somebody	Following Yesterday	03:15

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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