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
John Young Paul	Surrender to the Void	The Life of Ermie Scub	04:05
Pukka Orchestra	This Sordid Thing Called Love	The Palace Of Memeory	04:17
DeMars	Les cosmétiques cosmiques	Les Télé-Têtes	03:48
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	New Heroin	03:00
Glamorcult	Time Will Pass On By	Shadows From The Past	04:38
Rational Youth	Just a Sound in the Night (remix)	ST (mini album)	03:45
Absolute 9	Fence	ST	02:58
Age of Mirrors	She Says Hello	Mirage	04:02
Glen Meadmore	Going to Town	Chicken & Biscuits	05:09
Dada	If I'm Blind	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:46
Modern Minds	Wasted Lives	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	03:01
Figures At Dawn	Falling	ST	03:24
IQ	Burn Me	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:53
Corsage	Big Bang	ST	03:42
Villains	Wendy's Melody	Go Crazy	03:47
Nex'd	Flexible	Surreal (EP)	06:21
Entrance System	Imperfect Image	Imperfect Image	03:38
Ceramic Hello	The Disqued	The Absence of a Canary	03:54
Glamorcult	Thing Of Beauty	The Stone Sessions	03:57
Start	Out of the Tube	Hey You	02:27
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News Finale	Ohama aka The White Album	05:46
Ross Angeles	Salute	Salute	01:53
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Exit From a Dream	05:27
James Harcourt	Eye of the Needle	Emotional Blackmail	02:54
Images In Vogue	Promised Land	In The House	06:03
Rivals	I'll Just Let You Go	I'll Just Let You Go b/w I Don't Believe in Ghoulies	03:32
Tenants	Sheriff	ST	03:52
Timothy Chipman	Joy to the World	Ghost Parade	01:32
Erect	Lay Down and Die	Consequence of Life	03:18
Kings	Run Shoes Running	Are Here	02:34
Catherine	Operating System	Operating System b/w Operating System	03:04
Instructions	OK	ST	03:53
Psyche	Psyche Theme	The Influence	02:48
Glamorcult	Loneliness (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:54
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - Essay - Me Dad	Toronto Calling	06:06
Jon Mullane	In Our Hearts	Following Yesterday	03:22
Modernettes	New Society	Gone..But Not Forgiven	02:30
Drama	God Is a Machine	Loneliness	02:27
Scenics	I'm Hurt	Underneath the Door	02:02
Cannon Heath Down	Belly Through	Heart-Throb Companion	04:32
Martha And The Muffins	World Without Borders	Danseparc	03:08
Philip Rambow	Magnificient Obsession	Jungle Law	03:39
Rarefaction	All the Broken Seams	Ordinary Man	03:44
Glamorcult	Theories of Modern Affection	A Price To Paris	04:27
Modernettes	Red Nails	View From The Bottom (EP)	03:02
Inner Sanction	White Boy Rap	Dancematic-Automatic	05:58
Strange Advance	Reprise "Worlds Away"	Worlds Away	01:35
I Braineater	Fade	I Here, Where You	03:35
Spoons	Don't Shoot the Messenger	Talkback	03:19
Salty Seamen	In the Groove at Last	In The Groove At Last	02:35
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Reasons	Playing With Your Heart	Reasonable Rock (EP)	03:53
Oui	On Our Way	Oui	03:36
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Ohama aka The White Album	05:08
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
Deserters	Take It Away	ST	03:26
I Braineater	Edge	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:30
DeMars	Out of Sight	Songs From Between The Walls	05:25
Bicycle Thieves	Instead of a Heart	ST	04:31
Villains	I Don't Care	Go Crazy	03:09
Austra	The Future	Feel it Break	04:02
Breeding Ground	Happy Now I Know	Tales of Adventure (EP)	03:45
Deserters	No Time for Talking	ST	03:16
Tenants	Let 'Em Go	Visions of Our Future	04:28
Handful of Snowdrops	The Keep - When Comes Daylight (1986-87)	Mort en direct	07:30
Diodes	That Was the Way it Was (Eastern Sound Demo 1979)	Rarities	04:27
Living End (1)	The Procession	ST	04:40
True Confessions	Mating Games	ST	03:06
Shanghai Lil	Flower And a Bee	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:28
Benjamin Russell	Pop Modern(e)	Pop Modern(e)	03:51
Lou Champagne System	Don't Say I'm Here	No Visible Means	03:27
Bündock	Season for Love	Société Anonyme	04:11
Hypno-Gogo	Flashing	In Your Eyes b/w Flashing	04:49
Eight Seconds	Picture	Big Houses	06:13
Volts	As the Radio Died	Plugged In	03:35
Glamorcult	After the Battle	Early Glamour	03:12
Norda	Snakes And Ladders	West Over Seas	02:51
Klō	Break the Floor	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	03:34
Compilation	Instructions - D-6	The Circuit	05:14
The Plugs	I Saw Her Today	Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today	03:04
Graphics	Sleepdancer	Sleepdancer b/w Our Planet Ocean	03:41
Rational Youth	In Your Eyes	ST (mini album)	02:46
Handful of Snowdrops	A Miracle	Land of the Damned	04:54
Pale Blue	Ruin	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:25
Johnny Zhivago	Looking at You	Microalbum	04:28
39 Steps	Hit It Up	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:14
Class Info	Come for Me	Inside	02:23
Land of Giants	I Got You Babe	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:17
Blue Peter	Do the Robot	Test Patterns For Living	03:25
James Harcourt	Like the Way It Feels	Emotional Blackmail	02:34
Blue Peter	Out With the Boys	Test Patterns For Living	03:08
I Braineater	Comeon	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:44
Rational Youth	Dancing On The Berlin Wall (Remix)	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:34
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Space and Time	04:49
DeMars	Even for All Those Years	Songs From Between The Walls	04:39
Breeding Ground	Cerememony of Love	Obscurity And Flair	04:43
Johnny Zhivago	Echo	Microalbum	04:03
Térapi	Lève-toi!	Primale	02:13
Austra	Hate Crime	Feel it Break	04:01
Drama	Electronic Pink Panther	Loneliness	02:23

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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DeMars - Songs From Between The Walls

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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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Compilation - The Circuit

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Moral Support - Insanity

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Scenics - Underneath the Door

Nex'd - Surreal (EP)

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Channel Five - ST (EP)

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Electric Mocean - Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)

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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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