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
Barking Boys	Open City	The Yes Girls	04:07
Tenants	Let 'Em Go	Visions of Our Future	04:28
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	I Tie My Shoes	Midnite News	05:25
Rarefaction	You In Me	Ordinary Man	05:50
Maurice & The Clichés	Skyline	C'est la vie	03:49
Scenics	This Day	New Part In Town	03:08
Mobile Clones	Motionless	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:19
John Young Paul	Is That Why?	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:07
Bobby and Synthia	Queen Street	thirty-six hours (EP)	04:56
Handful of Snowdrops	Astronauts (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:31
John Young Paul	Have You Seen the Boy in the Gutter with the Broken Mind?	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:10
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	A Neon Rome	03:06
A Neon Rome	Cums A Wolf	A Neon Rome	04:15
Wrestlers	Intro - Yeah! I'm Drunk	ST	04:12
Border	Black and White	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:01
Glamorcult	Loneliness (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:54
Térapi	Breadus Fongus	Primale	02:51
Instructions	Ha - Ha Ha	ST	04:29
Nex'd	Surreal	Surreal (EP)	05:45
Iko	Subway 49	83	04:53
Handful of Snowdrops	Gabrielle (1987)	Mort en direct	06:32
Villains	Long, Short, Skinny Or Fat	Go Crazy	02:56
Red Herring	Feelings	Taste Tests	02:21
Bitter Reality	Tellin' Me Goodbye	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:38
The Gas	Evacuate	Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)	02:38
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Crusaders	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	03:49
A Day in Paris	cAn'T lOoK aWaY	Rhymes On Vinyl	04:03
Glen Meadmore	Do Me Baby	Chicken & Biscuits	05:01
Lou Champagne System	Invisible Prisions	No Visible Means	03:44
ACTORS	Crosses	It Will Come to You	04:12
Fictions	Do it With the Lights On	ST	03:07
Bleu Néon	Survivance	Cité Promise	08:24
Living End (1)	Is it Murder	ST	03:34
Glamorcult	Mine is the Maiden	Early Glamour	04:39
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Pumpin' For Jill	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:02
Braineaters	Screw You	Planet X	01:44
Contradance	Professional Dads	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	03:40
ACTORS	In Real Life	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:15
NEO A4	Time for Me Now	ST	04:42
DeMars	Les zoos arborifères	Les Télé-Têtes	03:09
Streetcar Named Desire	Yesteryear	Life Begins	02:58
DeMars	Le rêveur egaré	Les Télé-Têtes	04:06
Martha And The Muffins	Saigon	Metro Music	04:23
Bündock	Lover for Hire	Société Anonyme	03:25
ACTORS	Forever	Reanimated	03:34
Bleu Néon	Néon Blafard	Cité Promise	03:35
CosmaNat	Camping Song	Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)	02:17
Lou Champagne System	Broken Hearts	No Visible Means	03:31
Entrance System	Tower Talk	Imperfect Image	05:53
Strange Advance	One Chance in a Million	Worlds Away	04:12
Bobby and Synthia	Dig That Space	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:33
Salty Seamen	In the Groove at Last	In The Groove At Last	02:35
Drastic Measures	Hotsy Totsy - Postlude	ST	04:25
Vital Sines	Rhythm of Dark	Collage	05:34
Glamorcult	A Price to Paris	A Price To Paris	04:31
Start	Stereo	Hey You	03:16
S.Q	Alone at Night	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:10
The Idles	Slow Down	The Idles Demo	02:18
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Timeless Thoughts (To the Stars)	Space and Time	04:54
A Day in Paris	Goodbye	Prey	03:24
Kinetic Ideals	Maze of Ways	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	04:09
Mettle	Five-Four	ST	04:39
The Diodes	No Time to Cry (1981 Previously Unreleased) (CD only)	Rarities	03:43
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	So Far	04:04
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:41
Compilation	Sigi Jonsson - Trying To Find Her	Toronto Calling	02:25
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Space and Time	04:49
Bicycle Thieves	First Aid to the Injured	ST	03:35
Erect	Human Beings	Consequence of Life	04:09
Psyche	Illusion	The Influence	04:26
The Front	The Joke Was On Me	Gina's at a Party	04:03
Aircuts	Radioactivity	Radioactivity b/w Sheila	02:57
Spoons	Clever	Bridges Over Borders	03:39
The Front	The Haunting (Jimmy Loves Mary-Ann)	Gina's at a Party	04:07
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Call	Ohama aka The White Album	05:37
Perfect World	Have a Good Look	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	05:10
Bruce PM	Electronic Security	Makeshift	03:59
Family Plot	Old Refrain	Convictions	04:09
Lou Champagne System	Propaganda Frustration	No Visible Means	06:49
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	TV	Ohama aka The White Album	04:33
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39
FM109	Help	ST	02:11
Spoons	Love Can be a Stranger	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:32
The Scene (2)	Soul Spectrum	Only in Paradise	05:09
Tyro	Told You	A Little More Time (EP)	03:28
BAMFF	The Uncanny	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:50
Extras	I’ll be Wanting You	The Road to Zambando	04:15
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Direct	ST	03:43
Shock Culture	Haunted by Tokyo	ST (EP)	03:49
Corsage	Monument	Big Night Out (EP)	01:25
Start	In Passion	Hey You	03:24
Drama	Electronic Pink Panther	Loneliness	02:23
ACTORS	Slaves: Part Time Punks Session	Part Time Punks Session EP	03:34
Billy Butt & The Brats	No I Can't Say No	Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No	02:47
Glamorcult	Past Glory (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	04:32
Spoons	Ice Age	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:08
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Ohama aka The White Album	05:08
Rational Youth	Dancing On The Berlin Wall (Remix)	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:34
Class Info	I Want	Inside	05:22
Neon	Indulgence With a Vengeance	ST (EP)	03:58

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Joe Naylor - I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights

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Modernes Pickles - Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985

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Modernes Pickles - We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White

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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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Rob Bryanton - Alcohol And Other Drugs

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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The Keys - Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)

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Maja Bannerman - Songs by Maja Bannerman

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Blue Oil - Blue Oil (1981-83)

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Blue Oil - ST

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The Chemicals - Break Time

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The Chemicals - Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide

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Vex - DNA

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