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.

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Martha And The Muffins - Danseparc

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Gas, The - Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)

Mississauga, Ontario

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Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Brooks → Rainier → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Zipper - Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls

Victoria, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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NEO A4 - ST

Edmonton, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Kinetic Ideals - Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Breeding Ground - Wintergarden (EP)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Second Thoughts - Integrity b/w Wound Up

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Billy Butt & The Brats - Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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End, The - Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)

Bath, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Numbers - Add Up

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Golden Calgarians - New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

Nevermen - The Monitor LP

Toronto, Ontario

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Tabby K - Summertime b/w Wind Or Water

North York, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Diodes - Action-Reaction

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Strange Advance - Worlds Away

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

Tulpa - Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Golden Calgarians - Savage Love

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Rational Youth - Cold War Nightlife

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Rikki & The Rokkits - New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)

Calgary, Alberta

Micks - ST (EP)

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Chown, Avril - American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Broken Tables - ST

Mississauga, Ontario

Bobby and Synthia - thirty-six hours (EP)

Toronto, Ontario

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Cottage Industry - The Winter's Tale

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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Zhivago, Johnny - Microalbum

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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Lawn - Peace in the Valley

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

45's - On the Beach

Toronto, Ontario

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Numbers - Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Ohama - Julie is a TV Set - back side

Joe Naylor - I'm Canadian Beer vinyl side 1

Rob Bryanton - Alcohol And Other Drugs

Glamatron - Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence

Novels - I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam

Tau Ceti - So Far

Mettle, London Ontario

B.B. Gabor - Nyet Nyet Soviet b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)

Lawn - Peace in the Valley insert 01

Elan - Penticton Peaches (insert)

CHMR Chart March 2 1985

Music Scene Magazine

The Gas - Evacuate b/w Special This Week (Evacuate Mississauga picture sleeve)

Bunny & the Lakers - Numbers

Bunny & the Lakers Howrd Pope

Vital Sines - Subway Suicide/ Erik the Generik b/w Sex & Babies (picture sleeve)

Pelicans - Pelicans b/w New Wave insert

CosmaNat - Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)

Kreemers - Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo

Allan Scarth of the Null Set

Tribal Earth - Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)

Modernettes - Gone..But Not Forgiven side 02

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Time Twins - Yuri Song b/w Say Uncle (picture sleeve)

Border - Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)

One Hand Clapping - Burlesque (picture sleeve)

L-R Peter Whittington, Angela Camp, Peter Molloy & Andy Camp

Regulators - What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)

Cannon Heath Down - Heart-Throb Companion

Cannon Heath Down

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Rex Chainbelt Goodbye Carol Foreign Movie
Psyche Haunted The Influence
Breeding Ground Epic Tales of Adventure (EP)
Family Plot Dervish Convictions
Diodes Heat or the Beat Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981
Land of Giants Cannibal Dolls Cannibal Dolls b/w Seven Men
Rambow, Philip Jessica Jungle Law
Bobby and Synthia The Music Stopped thirty-six hours (EP)
Figures At Dawn It Doesn't Matter ST
I, Braineater Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6) I Here, Where You
Hot Tip Bridge to Manhattan Stop All Motion
Psyche Uncivilized Mystery Hotel
Fictions Shuffle ST
Matheson, Andrew Eyes of Harlem Monterey Shoes
Handful of Snowdrops Now, Then and Forever (4 Track Home Demo) Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)
Bunny & the Lakers Inhalation - Ventilation Numbers
Motive It’s Too Late Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)
Direktive 17 Run With Me ST (EP)
Erect Don't Put Me Down Consequence of Life
NEO A4 One's Enough ST
Images In Vogue One Way Heart In The House
This Fear Soldier of This Fashion (Extended) Darkness Shapes Imagination
Handful of Snowdrops Holy Hossuary (2nd Lineup Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Compilation Tyranna - Back Off Baby No Pedestrians
Numbers Can't Take It Add Up
Armes, Robert Radio Active Nearly Out of Control b/w Radio Active
Secret Act Night Club My Neighbourhood
Corsage Victory Square ST
Deserters Boys In Berlin ST
Doppler Bros. The Wreck of the Eaton Centre Totally Impractical
Living End (1) Blow ST
Glamorcult Tokyo Streets Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994
Broken Tables The Ruins ST
Men Without Hats Security (Everybody Feels Better With) Folk of the 80's (EP)
Breeding Ground Happy Now I Know Tales of Adventure (EP)
Eight Seconds Beyond the Shock Big Houses
UJ3RK5 The Departure Live From The Commodore Ballroom
Moev Czar Dusk and Desire
Graphics Our Planet Ocean Sleepdancer b/w Our Planet Ocean
NEO A4 Standing ST
Modern Minds Confidential (Modernettes) Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97
Psyche Wake the Flood Unconscious Mystery Hotel
Austra The Choke Feel it Break
Dream Child Luv On the Line Heaven Knows b/w Luv On the Line
Images In Vogue Politics of Sound Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982
Diodes Mercenary Flight (1978 Alternate Version) (CD only) Rarities
Handful of Snowdrops Charlatan (4 Track Home Demo) Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)
Cannon Heath Down A Charming Sound Heart-Throb Companion
Scissors Summer Girls ST
Broken Tables Image of You ST
Hygiene Club Girls at the Bank Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary
FM109 Hold On ST
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Where Do You Call Home? I Fear What I Might Hear
Start Out of the Tube Hey You
NEO A4 In My Life The Warmer Side of You
Compilation L'Etranger - Light in the Morning (live) Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands
Edge, The Play the Game Release the Circle
Lawn Rites Peace in the Valley
Cardboard Brains Babies Run My World Live At The Edge
Breeding Ground Reflections (In a Coffee Cup) Tales of Adventure (EP)
Cottage Industry The Crucial Moment The Winter's Tale
UJ3RK5 The Anglican Live From The Commodore Ballroom
B-Sides State of Emergency Red to Black
Government Letter to Craig Electric Eye
Kaméléon Anachronisme (1981) Groupe électro​-​pop
Front, The Hit and Run Underworld
Glamorcult The Light We Will Hold A Price To Paris
Champagne, Lou System Invisible Prisions No Visible Means
Rivals I Don't Believe in Ghoulies I'll Just Let You Go b/w I Don't Believe in Ghoulies
Voxx, The Flower Boy Flower Boy b/w Flower Boy DVB
Glamorcult Past Glory (Stone Version) The Stone Sessions
Living End (1) Steal a Smile ST
Rex Chainbelt Allies Foreign Movie
Class Info Out of Line Inside
Psyche Psychic Vampire Insomnia Theatre
Strange Advance Hold On to the Nite Worlds Away
Spoons Dropped Dishes Stick Figure Neighbourhood
A Kid Come An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)
Young, John Paul Summertime! The Life of Ermie Scub
Glamorcult Lost Souls In Time The Stone Sessions
Redlife Hope for Tomorrow Hope for Tomorrow b/w Round
Deserters Thought Police ST
This Fear Dreaming of a Nation Darkness Shapes Imagination
Glamorcult Forever Strangers Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)
Front, The Underworld Underworld
Handful of Snowdrops Shadows on the Heart Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition
NEO A4 Don't Believe The Warmer Side of You
Living End (1) All Mine ST
Hot Tip Never Look Back Stop All Motion
I, Braineater I Am Artist, Poet, Thief
39 Steps American Woman All Kinds of Shit '85-'87
Faded Films East of the Asylum Faded Years
Modern Minds It's Gone Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97
Moral Lepers Music is Your Body Turn to Stone
Braineaters Kid Stuff Planet X
Austra The Noise Feel it Break
Handful of Snowdrops A Short Story (1985) Mort en direct
Images In Vogue Save It In The House
100 Flowers We're Waiting 21st Guessing
Compilation Kinetic Ideals - The Whip (live) Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands

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