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
Quasi Hands	Lovelife	ST	03:01
Diodes	City of the Dead	Action-Reaction	04:04
Oui	Turn of the Century	Oui	04:13
FM109	Help	ST	02:11
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Man Who Never Sleeps	Untamed World	04:10
Age of Mirrors	Raiders of the Heart	Screenplay	03:39
Handful of Snowdrops	The View (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	06:28
Kinetic Ideals	Animalistic	Reason (EP)	05:09
Deserters	Take It Away	ST	03:26
Psyche	Prisoner to Desire	Unveiling The Secret	05:37
Timothy Chipman	Strange Days	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:48
Pukka Orchestra	Power Cut	ST	05:13
Men Without Hats	Mothers	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	12:07
Voice	Business as Usual in Beirut	Anno Di Voce	04:27
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Stand	Spunker	02:36
A Day in Paris	Goodbye	Prey	03:24
Faded Films	Jack in the Box	Faded Years	05:06
Psyche	Insatiable	Mystery Hotel	04:41
Leotards	Suicide Lover	Suicide Lover b/w Runaway Bridge	03:15
Tame & Talking	Darkened Dream	ST	03:10
Erect	Waiting	Consequence of Life	04:01
The Play	Midnight Dreams	Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City	03:12
Contradance	Trouble in the Darkness	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	05:53
Pukka Orchestra	Listen to the Radio	ST	03:48
Timothy Chipman	Joy to the World	Ghost Parade	01:32
Mettle	The Second Person	ST	03:47
Deserters	Alien	ST	03:43
Vital Sines	Ice Statue	Collage	04:41
Psyche	Misery	The Influence	04:06
Spoons	Like a Memory	Bridges Over Borders	03:47
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	I Tie My Shoes	Ohama aka The White Album	05:58
Reasons	Take Me Back	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:01
Robert Armes	Radio Active	Nearly Out of Control b/w Radio Active	02:31
Glamorcult	Innocense of Yesterday	Early Glamour	04:21
3rd Man In	What to Believe	New Fast b/w What to Believe (picture sleeve)	03:43
A Fish in C	In Transit	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
Compilation	Tyranna - Back Off Baby	No Pedestrians	02:26
Benjamin Russell	Gentle Charms	Madman	01:48
Martha And The Muffins	Saigon	Metro Music	04:23
Living End (1)	Close Your Eyes	ST	04:53
Breeding Ground	Cerememony of Love	Obscurity And Flair	04:43
Low Fun	The New Dictator	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	05:01
Rex Chainbelt	Talk It Over	Foreign Movie	02:15
Rational Youth	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	Cold War Nightlife	04:34
Erect	There Goes My Baby	Consequence of Life	03:45
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Aircuts	Radioactivity	Radioactivity b/w Sheila	02:57
Shock Culture	Haunted by Tokyo	ST (EP)	03:49
The Scene (2)	Come of Age	Only in Paradise	05:36
Tame & Talking	The Hole	ST	03:11
Land of Giants	Fire With Fire	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:50
Rave Revues	Long Time Coming	Long Time Coming b/w Rules Of Play (picture sleeve)	04:11
Cardboard Brains	Have You Seen The Boy In The Gutter With The Broken Mind?	Live At The Edge	02:05
Martha And The Muffins	Am I On?	Trance and Dance	03:24
Compilation	Mike Peters - Trucker's Paradise	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Age of Mirrors	Reunion	Screenplay	04:14
Tyro	A Little More Time	A Little More Time (EP)	02:11
Glamorcult	Start The Revolution	The Stone Sessions	04:03
Martha And The Muffins	Danseparc (Every Day It's Tomorrow)	Danseparc	03:22
Blue Peter	Cloak and Dagger	Test Patterns For Living	03:45
This Fear	Soldier of This Fashion (Extended)	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:14
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Direct	ST	03:43
Rarefaction	Abstract Minds	Abstract Minds b/w I Dreamt (picture sleeve)	04:10
Popular Front (1)	This is the Rubicon	This is the Rubicon	04:59
Iko	Model Type A	83	05:08
Spoons	The Rhythm	Talkback	04:06
Channel Five	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
Scenics	I'm Hurt	Underneath the Door	02:02
The End	My Paradise	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	02:59
Diodes	Burn Down Your Daddy's House	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:16
Bangkok	Planet of My Own	Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own	03:04
Villains	Lovers	Go Crazy	03:03
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Space and Time	04:49
Glamorcult	Afterglow	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:44
Me And the Mosquitos	Valium	Go Away b/w Valium	03:03
Deserters	Boys In Berlin	ST	03:42
Compilation	The Sturm Group - Upon a Nerve (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:34
David Raven & the Escorts	Somethin' in Our Way	David Raven And The Escorts	04:25
Figures At Dawn	In from the Cold	ST	03:54
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Fictions	I Let Go	ST	02:26
Instructions	Cleek	ST	02:56
Psyche	The Outsider	Mystery Hotel	04:27
Quasi Hands	Parallel Lines	ST	03:19
Psyche	Maggots	Insomnia Theatre	04:27
Hush	Now Reality	Replay	04:41
Rave Revues	Have You	Voices	04:01
Government	I Don't Really Care	Electric Eye	04:04
Benjamin Russell	Action and Reaction	Madman	02:14
Tenants	Winner	ST	03:21
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:12
Null Set	Judgement Days	New Job (EP)	02:19
Age of Mirrors	Wave About Her	Mirage	04:33
Martha And The Muffins	Terminal Twilight	Metro Music	04:41
Scenics	Tokyo	New Part In Town	04:07
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	Midnite News	03:44
Palace at 4 a.m.	Young and Italian	Untamed World	03:16
Handful of Snowdrops	The Keep (Interim Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:31
Handful of Snowdrops	From One Place to Another (1990)	Mort en direct	05:11
Salty Seamen	Rings Around Uranus	In The Groove At Last	02:18

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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Bonus Boys - Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time

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Cry - ST

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