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
Martha And The Muffins	You Sold the Cottage	This Is The Ice Age	04:01
Age of Mirrors	Still Life in Radio	Screenplay	04:09
UJ3RK5	Reason Sleeps Tonight	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:42
Breeding Ground	Slaughter	Reunion // Slaughter	04:55
Annabelle's Room	Hopscotch	ST	04:41
Psyche	Salvation Stranger	The Influence	03:54
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Rex Chainbelt	Rich Man	Foreign Movie	02:52
Martha And The Muffins	This is the Ice Age	This Is The Ice Age	07:34
Scissors	Nadine	ST	02:03
Vital Sines	Rhythm of Dark	Collage	05:34
Moev	Beautiful Beast	Dusk and Desire	03:55
Glamorcult	You Are in Love	A Price To Paris	04:07
Cardboard Brains	The Monster in Ed	Live At The Edge	03:26
Compilation	Ballyhoo - Love (Emotion + Desire) (Miguel G, Marco T., and Nick T.)	Strange Pleasures EP	03:21
Psyche	Eternal	Mystery Hotel	04:15
Benjamin Russell	Rock It	Pop Modern(e)	04:06
Barking Boys	High Life - Low Life	The Yes Girls	02:46
Drastic Measures	I Feel Bad	ST	02:04
Vis-A-Vis	Dance With Me	Heart and Soul	03:56
Salty Seamen	In the Groove at Last	In The Groove At Last	02:35
Red Herring	Taste Tests	Taste Tests	02:50
Dada	I.D	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:29
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	New Heroin	03:00
Salty Seamen	Lime Green Blues	In The Groove At Last	02:29
Einstein	Incognito	Sex and Science	03:50
Chemicals	Out of My Mind	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	03:11
Glamorcult	Session 2 (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	03:24
Moral Lepers	Music is Your Body	Turn to Stone	02:45
Benjamin Russell	Dreaming Girl	Madman	02:24
Glamorcult	After the Battle	Early Glamour	03:12
Mobile Clones	Present Age	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:24
Bora Bora	Starting Over	Fashion Passion b/w Starting Over	04:23
Age of Mirrors	She Says Hello	Mirage	04:02
Breeding Ground	Thin Red Line	Wintergarden (EP)	04:22
Compilation	The Sturm Group - Upon a Nerve (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:34
B-Sides	B-Side Shuffle	Red to Black	02:25
Diodes	Nowhere Fast (Aug 1977 Crash 'N' Burn Demo)	Rarities	02:50
Drama	Feable	Loneliness	03:42
Tenants	Let 'Em Go	Visions of Our Future	04:28
FM109	Disappearing of the Sun	ST	03:54
Awake The Echoes	Turn That Bloody Noise Down	Normal Life	03:15
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Fast Mix)	Strange Pleasures EP	09:34
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - I Wanna Be In Commercials	Toronto Calling	02:38
Rex Chainbelt	Mon Ami	Foreign Movie	02:22
Térapi	Lève-toi!	Primale	02:13
Handful of Snowdrops	Face to Face (Interim Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	06:33
Awake The Echoes	Sherry	Normal Life	04:20
Modernettes	Static	View From The Bottom (EP)	03:54
Psyche	Black Panther	Unveiling The Secret	03:52
Lou Champagne System	Another Dimension	No Visible Means	04:50
Glen Meadmore	Girlene	Chicken & Biscuits	05:07
Compilation	Winston Hancock - Leavin' Tonite	No Pedestrians	02:05
Tribal Earth	Got to Move	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	04:09
Instructions	OK	ST	03:53
Iko	Model Type A	83	05:08
Spoons	South American Vacation	Arias & Symphonies	04:12
Eight Seconds	We Set Him Free	Big Houses	05:04
Quasi Hands	Lovelife	ST	03:01
Living End (1)	Blow	ST	02:35
Ceramic Hello	Geometry	The Absence of a Canary	07:25
Martha And The Muffins	About Insomnia	Trance and Dance	03:12
Glen Meadmore	Going to Town	Chicken & Biscuits	05:09
Glen Meadmore	Lovin' In My Oven	Chicken & Biscuits	04:07
Glamorcult	Start The Revolution	The Stone Sessions	04:03
Martha And The Muffins	Swimming	This Is The Ice Age	03:54
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News Finale	Ohama aka The White Album	05:46
Spoons	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:00
Scenics	Walk in the Desert	Underneath the Door	01:32
Handful of Snowdrops	Chemical Engineering (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:22
Glamorcult	Forever Strangers	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	03:35
39 Steps	Always Tomorrow	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:37
Catherine	Operating System	Operating System b/w Operating System	03:03
Hot Tip	Father I Know	Stop All Motion	04:18
Utopiate	Actions or Misguidance	You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance	03:06
Benjamin Russell	Video Freak	Pop Modern(e)	04:17
Kreemers	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo	03:14
Government	I'm Somebody	Electric Eye	01:36
39 Steps	American Woman	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:11
Popular Front (1)	September Reign	This is the Rubicon	03:12
Magic Dragon	Objet Du Desire	Emotional Landscape	05:34
Salty Seamen	Rings Around Uranus	In The Groove At Last	02:18
Braineaters	Wrong World	Planet X	02:35
Cinebar	Venus	Another Fine Day	03:43
Salty Seamen	One Chance Left	In The Groove At Last	02:33
Government	Letter to Craig	Electric Eye	04:45
Diodes	Play With Fire	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	05:30
Compilation	Zro4 - Blood	No Pedestrians	03:29
Figures At Dawn	Sons of the Century	ST	04:36
Iko	Elevator	83	03:56
Lawn	As Yet	Peace in the Valley	02:58
Mobile Clones	Abrasive Air	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	02:24
Dandelions	Great Big Pictures	Great Big Pictures b/w Funky Monday (picture sleeve)	04:01
This Fear	Haunting Me	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:23
Popular Front	Doomsday Army	Doomsday Army b/w Puppet	03:53
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush (Bonus Track - 1991 unreleased remix)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:27
Absolute 9	Fence	ST	02:58
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
The Front	The Haunting (Jimmy Loves Mary-Ann)	Gina's at a Party	04:07

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Dancespeak - Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)

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Bangkok - Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own

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Cardboard Brains - Live At The Edge

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4th Floor - Black & White b/w Follow in Stride

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Breeding Ground - Obscurity And Flair

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Breeding Ground - Tales of Adventure (EP)

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Breeding Ground - Reunion // Slaughter

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Breeding Ground - Wintergarden (EP)

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Nowhere - No More b/w Living

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - Midway b/w Thin Lines

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - I Fear What I Might Hear

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - Midnite News

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