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
Ear Candy	Part of Me	Self Defence	04:34
Spoons	Breaking In	Static In Transmission	04:34
Scenics	One Comes Closer	Underneath the Door	03:18
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Fast Mix)	Strange Pleasures EP	09:34
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Mushin No Shin	Midnite News	05:35
Drama	This Time	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	04:13
Moev	Kim Says	Dusk and Desire	03:41
Spoons	No More Growing Up	Arias & Symphonies	03:25
Compilation	A Carnival Night - Untitled	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	02:43
Breeding Ground	Underground	Wintergarden (EP)	04:31
The Play	Atlantic City	Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City	03:30
Rex Chainbelt	Rock a Rolla	Foreign Movie	01:40
Timothy Chipman	Joy to the World	Ghost Parade	01:32
Cottage Industry	Kulturkreise	The Winter's Tale	03:02
Rarefaction	I Dreamt	Abstract Minds b/w I Dreamt (picture sleeve)	04:04
Cardboard Brains	Jungles	Live At The Edge	02:17
Bobby and Synthia	The Music Stopped	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:36
Instructions	The Extra	ST	03:12
Fictions	Praying for the World	ST	03:06
Awake The Echoes	Someone	Normal Life	04:07
Red Herring	If You Work for Me	Taste Tests	03:38
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Decade of Dreams	Stop This Car	Wild Colloquial	02:12
e	Prime Cuts	Prime Cuts	03:37
Compilation	Kinetic Ideals - Awful Medley	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	02:44
James Harcourt	You Make My Thing Ping	Emotional Blackmail	02:48
Popular Front (1)	Forty Days	This is the Rubicon	04:40
Spoons	One in Ten Words	Arias & Symphonies	04:10
Design	No Turning Back (remix)	No Turning Back	03:55
Spoons	Ice Age	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:08
Dada	I.D	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:29
Moev	Cocoon	Zimmerkampf	04:45
Spoons	Snow Globes	New Day New World	03:32
Strange Advance	Love Games	Worlds Away	03:51
Spoons	Waterline	Vertigo Tango	05:02
Bündock	El Salvador (The Beat of)	Société Anonyme	04:30
Wrestlers	When You Sleep Together	ST	03:42
Compilation	Glamatron - Klüb	The Circuit	02:28
I Braineater	Funtime	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:24
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Exit From a Dream	05:27
Red Herring	Taste Tests	Taste Tests	02:50
Kaméléon	Genocide genethliaque	ST	04:03
Glamorcult	S.O.S.	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:31
Strange Advance	One Chance in a Million	Worlds Away	04:12
Secret Act	That Certain Feeling	My Neighbourhood	03:33
Boys Brigade	Saigon	Mannequin Demo	05:02
Doppler Bros.	Welcome to Canada	Totally Impractical	03:48
Images In Vogue	Call it Love	In The House	03:51
Government	I'm Somebody	Electric Eye	01:36
Images In Vogue	Holiday	In The House	05:14
Spoons	Blow Away	Arias & Symphonies	05:59
UJ3RK5	Locator	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:04
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	And Without a Word	Ohama aka The White Album	04:16
Diodes	Lawn Boy Lover (1977 previously unreleased)	Rarities	02:33
Inner Sanction	Sparkle	Shake Up - Fly Down	02:51
Spice	Just a Little Bit	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	02:17
Compilation	Tulpä - Apologize to Your Mother	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:06
Diodes	No Time to Cry (1981 Previously Unreleased) (CD only)	Rarities	03:43
A Neon Rome	Cums A Wolf	A Neon Rome	04:15
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower & the Hippies	ST (EP)	02:29
Micks	Money Talks	ST (EP)	02:24
Taro	The Line Is Fine	The Line Is Fine b/w Driftin Away (picture sleeve)	03:21
Tim Ray	Hate (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:22
Scissors	Don't Call Me Chick	ST	02:17
Extras	Sporting Life	The Road to Zambando	03:50
Moev	Took Out the Lace	Dusk and Desire	03:42
The Scene (2)	What I Need	Only in Paradise	05:28
Pukka Orchestra	Cherry Beach Express	ST	03:07
UJ3RK5	Hash Dreams of the Everyday Housewife	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:26
Braineaters	Screw You	Planet X	01:44
Me And the Mosquitos	Valium	Go Away b/w Valium	03:03
Blue Peter	Factory Living	Test Patterns For Living	02:50
Second Thoughts	Wound Up	Integrity b/w Wound Up	02:50
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Thin Lines	Midway b/w Thin Lines	05:53
Doppler Bros.	Leaving Home	Totally Impractical	02:21
Frigidaires	Three Cool Cats	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:12
Cannon Heath Down	quagmire	Heart-Throb Companion	00:30
e	Kunst Kopf	Prime Cuts	01:55
Pukka Orchestra	Miss Right	ST	03:32
Images In Vogue	Grapevine	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:55
Extras	Cult Kids	Bit Parts	03:07
Pukka Orchestra	Rubber Girl	ST	04:34
Spoons	I've Been Here Before	Vertigo Tango	03:58
Diodes	Heat or the Beat	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:38
Friendly Fire	Complete Control	Junior Senility EP	03:12
DeMars	Les cosmétiques cosmiques	Les Télé-Têtes	03:48
The Front	Your Street	Underworld	04:10
Iko	Radioactive Mist	83	05:24
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	TV	Ohama aka The White Album	04:33
B-Sides	She's a Raver (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	01:34
Extras	I’ll be Wanting You	The Road to Zambando	04:15
Thieves	I See Red	I See Red	04:27
UJ3RK5	The Anglican	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	05:19
Philip Rambow	Love is a Hard Time	Jungle Law	04:19
Images In Vogue	Masks	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:56
Philip Rambow	The Manison on the Hill	Jungle Law	04:25
Handful of Snowdrops	Second by Second (Bonus Track)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:47
Kinetic Ideals	Maze of Ways	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	04:09
Timothy Chipman	Old Shoes, New Dreams	Ghost Parade	01:33
Boys Brigade	Mannequin	ST	03:41

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Spoons - Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party

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Spoons - New Day New World

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Spoons - Static In Transmission

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Spoons - Vertigo Tango

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Spoons - Bridges Over Borders

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Spoons - Talkback

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Spoons - Nova Heart b/w Symmetry

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Spoons - Arias & Symphonies

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Spoons - Stick Figure Neighbourhood

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Tim Ray - History Lessons 1978-1984

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Tim Ray - ST

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Voice - Anno Di Voce

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Hygiene Club - Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary

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Avril Chown - American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight

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Kultur - Kultur

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The Idles - The Idles Demo

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Hunger Project - Demo 1982

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Hunger Project - The Same Inside b/w Assembly

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Boys Brigade - Interview with Boys Brigade and Producer Geddy Lee

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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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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Beach Punks - She Got Body Talk

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Hush - Replay

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