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
I Braineater	Funtime	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:24
Compilation	Voodoo - Stormy Eyes	Toronto Calling	04:34
Family Plot	Tic Tac	Convictions	04:08
Bobby and Synthia	The Music Stopped	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:36
Johnny Faith	Pure Energy	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:55
39 Steps	American Woman	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:11
Rex Chainbelt	Talk It Over	Foreign Movie	02:15
Awake The Echoes	Sherry	Normal Life	04:20
Andrew Matheson	Debbie	Monterey Shoes	06:26
Austra	The Future	Feel it Break	04:02
UJ3RK5	Hash Dreams of the Everyday Housewife	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:26
Images In Vogue	Promised Land	In The House	06:03
BB Gabor	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry)	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	02:41
Glamorcult	Cry	Shadows From The Past	03:35
Strange Advance	Watermusic	Worlds Away	00:55
Todd Stevens	This Way!	This Way! (picture sleeve)	03:20
Bumpers	Ian	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	03:26
Thieves	Color	I See Red	04:09
Boys Brigade	Mannequin	Mannequin Demo	04:13
Lawn	Catwalk Slip	Peace in the Valley	03:24
Spoons	My Favourite Page	Talkback	04:01
The Gas	Special This Week	Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)	02:14
Redlife	Round	Hope for Tomorrow b/w Round	03:28
Within Gothic Towers	The Cavern Of Solitude	Within Gothic Towers	04:06
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Errands For Eros	Spunker	04:09
Contradance	Black Preppies	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	02:28
Moral Lepers	Shadow	Turn to Stone	03:03
Rob Bryanton	Everybody Feels Some Pain	Alcohol And Other Drugs	04:45
Zipper	Slowtown Rats	Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll) b/w Slowtown Rats	02:51
Hush	Dancing in East Berlin	Replay	04:17
Scissors	Summer Girls	ST	02:18
FM109	L'ecole est fuckee	ST	04:19
Vital Sines	Subway Suicide	Subway Suicide E.P.	04:51
Golden Calgarians	Savage Love	Savage Love	04:16
Catherine	Operating System	Operating System b/w Operating System	03:03
Térapi	Lève-toi!	Primale	02:13
Numbers	Out to You	Add Up	02:27
Spoons	Old Emotions	Talkback	03:42
Degrees of Freedom	Call Me Midnight	China	04:51
Moral Support	Strange Day for Dancing	Insanity	03:21
Oui	Information	Oui	04:41
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Timeless Thoughts (To the Stars)	Space and Time	04:54
Vis-A-Vis	I am the Night	Heart and Soul	03:40
Psyche	Psyche Theme	The Influence	02:48
Moev	Kim Says	Dusk and Desire	03:41
Breeding Ground	Slaughter	Reunion // Slaughter	04:55
Scenics	Jonathan Richman	New Part In Town	03:18
Glamorcult	Follow the Shadow	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:24
Spoons	One in Ten Words	Arias & Symphonies	04:10
Rarefaction	You In Me	Ordinary Man	05:50
Men Without Hats	Ideas for Walls	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:27
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Simple Man	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:16
Glamorcult	Images of Monlight	Early Glamour	04:19
Cottage Industry	The Crucial Moment	The Winter's Tale	03:49
A Neon Rome	Islam	A Neon Rome	10:18
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
Barking Boys	Here She Comes	The Yes Girls	03:55
Glamorcult	Crestfallen	A Price To Paris	03:37
Null Set	Rubber Wings	New Job (EP)	03:31
4th Floor	Black and White	Black & White b/w Follow in Stride	04:37
Hygiene Club	Sea Monster	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	03:10
Velveteens	Love as a Rule	Tall House (EP)	03:03
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Stop	Spunker	02:57
Rex Chainbelt	Run Away	Foreign Movie	02:43
Handful of Snowdrops	Face to Face (Interim Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	06:33
Home Grown	Up the Wall	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:45
Government	Greetings from the Gutter (Reprise)	Electric Eye	00:50
I Braineater	7Teen	Artist, Poet, Thief	02:38
The Patterns	Always Sixteen	Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen	02:44
I Braineater	Wrong World	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:46
Corsage	Shut-Ins	ST	03:11
Glamorcult	A Farewell to Arms	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	02:35
Eight Seconds	Beyond the Shock	Big Houses	05:34
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Robots in the Cellar	Space and Time	04:06
Philip Rambow	Don't Come (Cryin' To Me)	Jungle Law	03:37
Boys Brigade	Voices	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:27
Rational Youth	Coboloid Race	I Want to See the Light	05:14
Psyche	The Outsider	Mystery Hotel	04:27
Glamorcult	Dream Girl (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	03:43
Numbers	Get Away	Add Up	02:43
Novels	Son of Sam	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	02:35
UJ3RK5	The Locator	ST (EP)	03:11
Compilation	Mike Peters - Trucker's Paradise	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Martha And The Muffins	World Without Borders	Danseparc	03:08
BAMFF	The Uncanny	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:50
Tenants	How Do You Sleep at Night?	ST	04:34
DeMars	Déchéance	Les Télé-Têtes	03:41
Images In Vogue	Holiday	In The House	05:14
Neon	Second Wind	ST (EP)	02:52
DeMars	Moonshadow	Stories from between the Walls	06:28
Vital Sines	Fear of the Cold	Big Dark Dreams	03:41
The Front	Twice Shy	Underworld	03:37
Tribal Earth	Interaction - Reaction	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	05:49
Fictions	Shuffle	ST	02:39
Cannon Heath Down	Not Now	Heart-Throb Companion	02:15
Inner Sanction	I Cherish	Dancematic-Automatic	03:10
Spoons	On the Beach	Bridges Over Borders	03:48
Inner Sanction	Standing in the Rain	Prophecy	03:21
Awake The Echoes	Someone	Normal Life	04:07
True Confessions	Passion	ST	02:44

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Hunger Project - The Same Inside b/w Assembly

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Hunger Project - Demo 1982

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Klō - Demo 1981

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Klō - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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Klō - Demo 1982

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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Beach Punks - She Got Body Talk

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Hush - Replay

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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The Scene (2) - Only in Paradise

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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Jon Mullane - Following Yesterday

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Awake The Echoes - Normal Life

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No Comment - Wondering b/w Honesty

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Entrance System - Imperfect Image

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Shock Culture - ST (EP)

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Our Sir Francis to the Sea - ST

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Tame & Talking - ST

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Vital Sines - Big Dark Dreams

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Vital Sines - Subway Suicide E.P.

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Vital Sines - Collage

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Tim Ray - ST

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Volts - Plugged In

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This Fear - Darkness Shapes Imagination

Tenants - ST

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