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	Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing	Danseparc	05:53
Compilation	Tulpä - Apologize to Your Mother	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:06
Secret Act	That Certain Feeling	My Neighbourhood	03:33
Doppler Bros.	Welcome to Canada	Totally Impractical	03:48
Barking Boys	Too Hot In Here	The Yes Girls	04:39
Eight Seconds	Happy Endings	Big Houses	03:46
ACTORS	How Deep is the Hole	Reanimated	04:00
The Patterns	Always Sixteen	Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen	02:44
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	Midnite News	03:44
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heart of the Mind	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:27
NEO A4	Las Vegas	The Warmer Side of You	03:25
100 Flowers	We're Waiting	21st Guessing	03:11
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Talking About	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:06
Drama	Electronic Pink Panther	Loneliness	02:23
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower and the Hippies	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:48
Ceramic Hello	M - EX	The Absence of a Canary	00:23
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lola	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:08
Lawn	Reconsider Baby	Peace in the Valley	03:58
The Diodes	Photographs Of Mars (Live At The Horseshoe June 7 1980)	Rarities	04:32
Villains	Boogie Man	Go Crazy	04:24
Martha And The Muffins	Symptomatic Love	Trance and Dance	04:08
DeMars	Torn to Pieces	Stories from between the Walls	03:35
Perfect World	Twist and Shove	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	03:18
Erect	There Goes My Baby	Consequence of Life	03:45
The Edge	Play the Game	Release the Circle	04:07
Moral Support	Rising	Insanity	03:04
Modern Minds	Confidential (Modernettes)	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:58
Moral Lepers	Beryl Bean	Turn to Stone	02:41
Age of Mirrors	Simple Gift of Love	Mirage	03:05
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
B-Sides	No Can Do	Red to Black	03:00
I Braineater	1980 More	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:57
Modernes Pickles	We Are the Modernes Pickles	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:35
Austra	The Choke	Feel it Break	04:12
Family Plot	Wings of Fate	Convictions	04:02
Modernettes	Won't Have To Worry	Gone..But Not Forgiven	02:22
FM109	Mirror Man	ST	03:17
Scenics	New Part in Town	New Part In Town	03:31
Martha And The Muffins	Saigon	Metro Music	04:23
Start	Gotta Have Love	Hey You	04:49
Blueprints	What You D-Serve	Stare 01	02:51
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News II	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:36
Bündock	Tied for Time	Société Anonyme	03:55
Glamorcult	Interlude	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:30
Bündock	Lover for Hire	Société Anonyme	03:25
Pukka Orchestra	Rubber Girl	ST	04:34
Bündock	Season for Love	Société Anonyme	04:11
Rob Bryanton	We Are All Chemicals	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:31
Class Info	That Aint No Lie	Inside	02:19
Eight Seconds	Chopin's Heart	Big Houses	04:51
Blue Peter	Factory Living	Test Patterns For Living	02:50
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Simple Man	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:16
Doppler Bros.	The Wreck of the Eaton Centre	Totally Impractical	04:27
Moev	Sea-Missile Motel	Dusk and Desire	06:23
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Rock 'N' Roll	Ohama aka The White Album	04:26
Awake The Echoes	Always Something Wrong	Normal Life	03:59
Einstein	Incognito	Sex and Science	03:50
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Exit From a Dream	04:33
Decade of Dreams	The Bridge	Wild Colloquial	03:31
Joe Naylor	I Hate Fluorescent Lights	I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights	03:24
Golden Calgarians	Getting Weaker	Savage Love	03:05
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:49
Vital Sines	Hype	Collage	04:43
ACTORS	Slaves	It Will Come to You	03:33
Glamatron	Continentals	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	04:44
Maurice & The Clichés	Please Yourself	ST	01:57
NEO A4	Only a Fool	ST	03:52
Steve Blimkie (and the Reason)	On the Edge	Blimkie	02:10
Spunker (aka Neotone)	I'm in the Stars For You	Spunker	04:36
Vital Sines	Sorry	Big Dark Dreams	04:32
Frigidaires	Three Cool Cats	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:12
Spoons	One in Ten Words	Arias & Symphonies	04:10
Start	State of Her Shine	Hey You	03:12
Breeding Ground	In the Sun	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:22
Compilation	Winston Hancock & The Changes - Love at First Sight	The Circuit	02:36
Benjamin Russell	Broken-Hearted Lovers	Madman	02:30
Channel 5	So Good to Me	ST (EP)	03:19
Modernes Pickles	Uranium Ore	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:32
Handful of Snowdrops	Somewhere Higher (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:25
Corsage	She's Become a Memory	ST	04:06
Compilation	Instructions - D-6	The Circuit	05:14
Tim Ray	Horses Mouth (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:29
Spoons	Shaking the Fear	Vertigo Tango	04:16
Direktive 17	Between You & Me	ST (EP)	03:38
Glamorcult	Session 2 (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	03:24
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Exit From a Dream	05:27
UJ3RK5	Locator	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:04
Scenics	This Day	New Part In Town	03:08
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Martha And The Muffins	What People Do for Fun	Danseparc	04:02
Deserters	Alien	ST	03:43
DeMars	Le rêveur egaré	Les Télé-Têtes	04:06
Pale Blue	Ruin	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:25
The Diodes	Catwalker	Action-Reaction	03:29
Thieves	Kopper & Iron	I See Red	03:38
Compilation	Zro4 - Blood	No Pedestrians	03:29
Handful of Snowdrops	Chemical Engineering (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:22
Tim Ray	Promised You (April, 1979)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:31
NEO A4	Look to Your Heart	The Warmer Side of You	03:47
Compilation	Jennifer Cauley - In Every Dream	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:45

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - You Can´t Hold Me Anymore b/w Freaks On the Tube

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - Blimkie

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Drama - Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)

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Drama - Loneliness

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Glamorcult - Atlantis Under the Sea

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Glamorcult - A Price To Paris

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Glamorcult - Shadows From The Past

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Glamorcult - Early Glamour

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Glamorcult - Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994

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Glamorcult - The Stone Sessions

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Glamorcult - Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)

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Glamorcult - Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude

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Glamorcult - Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)

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

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Channel 5 - ST (EP)

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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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