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
Tower Bridge	Perfection	Perfection b/w Out of My Mind Girl (picture sleeve)	04:07
Johnny Faith	Beatown	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	03:24
Future Yanx	Suite For A Nation	Suite For A Nation (picture sleeve)	03:12
Kinetic Ideals	Together	A Personal View (EP)	05:54
ACTORS	Slaves: Part Time Punks Session	Part Time Punks Session EP	03:34
Benjamin Russell	Where Do We Belong?	Madman	02:07
Sandro Durante	City Life	Durante	03:34
Compilation	Pat Grehan - Fury Girl	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:13
Breeding Ground	Wintergarden	Wintergarden (EP)	04:20
Ohm & the Secret Sources	No Feelings	Space and Time	03:34
Popular Front (1)	Forty Days	This is the Rubicon	04:40
Deserters	Thought Police	ST	04:08
Glamorcult	Cocktail Conversations	A Price To Paris	04:32
UJ3RK5	Reason Sleeps Tonight	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:42
100 Flowers	The Naught	21st Guessing	03:56
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39
Theo Vandenhoff	What's In A Name	Collected EPs	03:08
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	And Without a Word	Midway b/w Thin Lines	04:07
Martha And The Muffins	Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing	Danseparc	05:53
Direktive 17	Between You & Me	ST (EP)	03:38
Einstein	Body & Mind	Sex and Science	03:49
Modernes Pickles	Night Worker	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:15
The Diodes	That Was The Way That It Was	Action-Reaction	03:46
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Simple Man	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:16
Tim Ray	Hiding Out (January, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:03
Hot Tip	Never Look Back	Stop All Motion	03:25
Spoons	Love Recall	New Day New World	03:19
Nevermen	Real Life	The Monitor LP	05:10
Einstein	Nasti Nastassja	Sex and Science	04:35
Extras	One Last Time	Bit Parts	03:45
Oui	On Our Way	Oui	03:36
Eight Seconds	Tell Diane	Big Houses	04:45
Novels	I'm Being Followed	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	03:02
BB Gabor	Hunger, Poverty and Misery	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	03:50
Corsage	She's Become a Memory	ST	04:06
Einstein	Man-Child	Sex and Science	03:38
Age of Mirrors	Don't Let Your Love Slip Away	Screenplay	03:54
Rob Bryanton	Livin' On the Edge of the World	Alcohol And Other Drugs	05:10
Hot Tip	Fast Boys	Stop All Motion	03:23
NEO A4	Standing	ST	03:50
Degrees of Freedom	August is an Angel	China	04:27
Compilation	Sound FX - Shape Up	Saskatoon Rocks	03:19
Sound FX	Caramia	Sound FX	03:08
Steve Blimkie (and the Reason)	All I Want is You Alone	Blimkie	02:37
Spoons	On the Beach	Bridges Over Borders	03:48
Cottage Industry	The Urge to Merge	The Winter's Tale	04:33
Rational Youth	Heredity	Heredity	04:18
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Voices Like Thunder	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	04:00
Glamorcult	Cry	Shadows From The Past	03:35
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	And Without a Word	Ohama aka The White Album	04:16
Compilation	Winston Hancock & The Changes - Love at First Sight	The Circuit	02:36
Dis Band	Gone Dead Out	Gone Dead Out	04:06
Reactors	Alien Radio	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:22
Austra	The Beast	Feel it Break	04:02
Glamorcult	Where is the Love	Atlantis Under the Sea	03:53
Bicycle Thieves	Instead of a Heart	ST	04:31
Maurice & The Clichés	Unschuld	C'est la vie	03:43
Glamorcult	If Only You Knew	Early Glamour	04:13
Drastic Measures	Romanticon	ST	02:42
Compilation	The Guise - Lovers Unite	Saskatoon Rocks	04:34
Spoons	Bending	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:32
Faded Films	The Top	Faded Years	02:43
The Government	On The Prowl (Reprise)	Electric Eye	02:36
Tyro	Strong Willed Woman	A Little More Time (EP)	02:27
Braineaters	Screw You	Planet X	01:44
Eight Seconds	Happy Endings	Big Houses	03:46
Deserters	No Time for Talking	ST	03:16
The Diodes	Parasite (1977 previously unreleased)	Rarities	03:17
Modernettes	The Rebel Kind	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:08
Modernes Pickles	I've Won a Million	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:02
Klō	Clown	Demo 1981	03:17
Philip Rambow	Beyond the Naked & the Dead	Jungle Law	03:11
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:41
Sebastian (Agnello)	No Compromise	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:34
Volts	Never Enough	Plugged In	03:03
Minutes From Downtown	Pushing the Limits of Love	ST	03:14
Drastic Measures	Hotsy Totsy - Postlude	ST	04:25
Maja Bannerman	Call Me	Songs by Maja Bannerman	03:06
Benjamin Russell	Gonna be a Woman Soon	Madman	02:54
Compilation	Conditioned Response - Are You Responding	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:28
Glamorcult	As I Breathe on The TTC	Shadows From The Past	03:58
British Properties	Eight Days a Week	Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls	03:20
DeMars	La nouvelle epoque	Les Télé-Têtes	04:01
The Government	It Must be God - Downtown	Electric Eye	03:51
Lou Champagne System	Propaganda Frustration	No Visible Means	06:49
Iko	Subway 49	83	04:53
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News Finale	Ohama aka The White Album	05:46
Glamorcult	Manhattan Sunrise	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:24
Corsage	Baby Said	ST	03:37
Tim Ray	Silent Partner (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:47
Entrance System	Imperfect Image	Imperfect Image	03:38
The Front	The Hard Line	Gina's at a Party	03:06
Martha And The Muffins	Saigon	Metro Music	04:23
The Idles	Heat Up	The Idles Demo	02:58
Handful of Snowdrops	Counterclockwise (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:30
Glamorcult	Live For Today	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:38
S.Q	Alone at Night	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:10
Compilation	Moist & Tender - You're On My Way	Toronto Calling	02:42
Drama	Human Question	Loneliness	02:38
Psyche	Children Carry Knives	Insomnia Theatre	04:46

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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James G. Thompson - Hand In Hand

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Sandro Durante - Durante

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Sandro Durante - Don't Go (Breaking My Heart) b/w All That Magic

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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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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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