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
Scenics	Jonathan Richman	New Part In Town	03:18
Moral Support	Insanity	Insanity	04:33
Corsage	West Coast Highway (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:57
Compilation	Vital Sines - Not My World (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:15
Volts	While You Can	Plugged In	03:41
James Harcourt	Moment of Madness	Emotional Blackmail	03:03
UJ3RK5	Hands of Orlac	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:36
The Diodes	Hot Sand (1981 Remixed Version 2017)	Rarities	03:18
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	My Time	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	05:15
Government	Get You Sleepin'	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:17
The Play	Atlantic City	Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City	03:30
Bruce PM	Senility	Makeshift	02:27
Melinite	Another Attempt	Push The Button And Run!	02:27
Rarefaction	I Dreamt	Ordinary Man	04:18
Blue Oil	From the Heart	Blue Oil (1981-83)	01:48
Blue Peter	Factory Living	Test Patterns For Living	02:50
Interpol	Ursula (At Warsaw International)	ST	06:35
Blue Oil	No Disturbing Call	ST	02:51
Hot Tip	Teach Me Something	Stop All Motion	04:12
Redlife	Hope for Tomorrow	Hope for Tomorrow b/w Round	03:44
Glen Meadmore	Lovin' In My Oven	Chicken & Biscuits	04:07
Martha And The Muffins	Paint By Number Heart	Metro Music	03:28
Eight Seconds	Moving Day	Big Houses	03:45
Time Twins	Yuri Song	Yuri Song b/w Say Uncle (picture sleeve)	07:03
Figures At Dawn	Distance Through Darkness	ST	03:10
Modernes Pickles	Uranium Ore	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:32
Austra	The Noise	Feel it Break	03:31
Compilation	Kinetic Ideals - Awful Medley	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	02:44
Glamorcult	Innocense of Yesterday	Early Glamour	04:21
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Body of Vagrant Waves	I Fear What I Might Hear	08:36
Spoons	Words Will Smash Walls	Static In Transmission	04:29
Darkroom	Pressure	San Paku	04:09
Hygiene Club	Sea Monster	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	03:10
Doppler Bros.	The Wreck of the Eaton Centre	Totally Impractical	04:27
45's	On the Beach	On the Beach	04:05
Extras	Zambando	The Road to Zambando	04:17
Hypno-Gogo	In Your Eyes	In Your Eyes b/w Flashing	03:04
Frost In June	Catch the Light	Catch The Light	03:58
NEO A4	Desire	The Warmer Side of You	04:02
A Neon Rome	Cums A Wolf	A Neon Rome	04:15
Tenants	Death of Innocence	Visions of Our Future	03:39
Preison's Shade	Tearing Down the Walls	Race Me Home (EP)	04:52
Absolute 9	Fence	ST	02:58
Bumpers	Ian	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	03:26
Null Set	Etude for Triggered Wah	New Job (EP)	05:02
ACTORS	Dead Inside	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:29
Compilation	Youth Youth Youth - Wanderlust	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	01:58
Awake The Echoes	Someone	Normal Life	04:07
Modern Minds	Confidential (Modernettes)	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:58
Johnny Faith	Pure Energy	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:55
Martha And The Muffins	Teddy the Dink	Trance and Dance	03:29
Modern Minds	All Day & All of the Night	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:18
NEO A4	Standing	ST	03:50
Psyche	Misery	The Influence	04:06
Braineaters	Modern Man Pt 2	Planet X	01:16
Martha And The Muffins	Swimming	This Is The Ice Age	03:54
e	Dance With Me	The Levitation Syndrome	03:36
Blue Oil	Unwind	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:35
Psyche	Children Carry Knives	Insomnia Theatre	04:46
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:02
ACTORS	Object of Desire	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:12
ACTORS	Slaves	It Will Come to You	03:33
Instructions	Ha - Ha Ha	ST	04:29
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:50
One Hand Clapping	Angry Weather	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	04:23
Hot Tip	Hard to be Me	Stop All Motion	03:50
Boys Brigade	Portrait	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	07:45
Handful of Snowdrops	Voices in the Night	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:41
Kinetic Ideals	Animalistic	Reason (EP)	05:09
Popular Front (1)	Forty Days	This is the Rubicon	04:40
B-Sides	Late at Night	Red to Black	03:28
Spoons	Blow Away	Arias & Symphonies	05:59
Compilation	Rent Boys Inc. - Beauty is Above the Law	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	02:45
Rolf Kempf	One More Time	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:26
Benjamin Russell	Out of it Girl	Madman	01:37
Breeding Ground	Wintergarden	Wintergarden (EP)	04:20
ACTORS	Bad Boys (Don't Go to Heaven)	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:50
Glamorcult	Mine is the Maiden	Early Glamour	04:39
Magic Dragon	Egyptian Radio	Emotional Landscape	04:12
Rarefaction	Open Up Your Heart	Ordinary Man	04:12
ACTORS	Bury Me	It Will Come to You	03:28
Contradance	Black Preppies	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	02:28
Boys Brigade	Shadows	Mannequin Demo	03:32
Maja Bannerman	Black Sheep	Songs by Maja Bannerman	03:00
Bündock	Stand Still	Société Anonyme	02:45
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	Heredity	05:17
Handful of Snowdrops	Counterclockwise (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:30
Mobile Clones	Present Age	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:24
Rin Tin Tin	Give Meech a Chance	Give Meech a Chance // Jackin' the House of Commons	03:11
Pale Blue	Therapy	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:53
Lou Champagne System	Invisible Prisions	No Visible Means	03:44
Glamorcult	Table Thirty	Early Glamour	03:38
Compilation	Don Bregg - Sounds So Nice	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:51
The Front	Can't Get Started	Gina's at a Party	04:18
Glamorcult	Manhattan Sunrise	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:24
Timothy Chipman	Ghost Parade	Ghost Parade	02:25
Tim Ray	Promised You (April, 1979)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:31
Welcome Home	Top of the World	In This Life b/w Top of the World (picture sleeve)	04:02
Klō	Fun	Demo 1982	05:08

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever

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ACTORS - Part Time Punks Session EP

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ACTORS - Slaves (FM Attack RMX)

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ACTORS - Mining for Heart

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ACTORS - Acts of Worship

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ACTORS - One Hundred Years

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ACTORS - It Will Come to You

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ACTORS - Reanimated

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Bleu Néon - Cité Promise

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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Maurice & The Clichés - ST

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Maurice & The Clichés - Veronika

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Maurice & The Clichés - Soft Core

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Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

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Minutes From Downtown - ST

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Joe Naylor - I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights

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Modernes Pickles - Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985

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Modernes Pickles - We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White

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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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Rob Bryanton - Alcohol And Other Drugs

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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The Keys - Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)

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Maja Bannerman - Songs by Maja Bannerman

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Blue Oil - Blue Oil (1981-83)

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Blue Oil - ST

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The Chemicals - Break Time

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The Chemicals - Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide

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Vex - DNA

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