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
Start	State of Her Shine	Hey You	03:12
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Stop	Spunker	02:57
Timothy Chipman	Night Patrol	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:22
Drastic Measures	Prelude	ST	01:09
Land of Giants	Cannibal Dolls	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
Blue Peter	Living in the Eighties	Test Patterns For Living	02:26
Pierre Perpall	Da Da Da (Vocal)	Da Da Da	03:50
Low Fun	Words We Left Behind	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	03:41
Compilation	Jenerentola - Lagata (Jenerentola)	Strange Pleasures EP	06:32
Diodes	Curiousity Girl	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:52
Moral Support	Heart of Gold	Insanity	03:40
Drama	Space Age Punks	Loneliness	02:37
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin' to Glide	Are Here	05:43
Barking Boys	Open City	The Yes Girls	04:07
Breeding Ground	Wintergarden	Wintergarden (EP)	04:20
Degrees of Freedom	August is an Angel	China	04:27
Kaméléon	Omnibus Cactus	ST	02:48
Broken Tables	Image of You	ST	04:24
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Hothouse	ST	04:32
The Front	Looking For You	Gina's at a Party	04:32
Erect	We Are Police	Consequence of Life	02:14
Cannon Heath Down	Light Your Eyes	Heart-Throb Companion	03:06
John Young Paul	Ermie has Feelers	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:25
Vital Sines	Subway Suicide	Subway Suicide E.P.	04:51
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Government	Letter to Craig	Electric Eye	04:45
Start	Hey You	Hey You	04:03
Drastic Measures	Maniacs in Cadillacs	ST	02:38
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:49
Psyche	Insatiable	Mystery Hotel	04:41
e	Kunst Kopf	Prime Cuts	01:55
NEO A4	Understand	ST	04:01
Iko	Approach on Tokyo	83	05:15
Images In Vogue	Quiet Room	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	03:32
The Scene (2)	Gardens of Babylon	Only in Paradise	04:56
James Harcourt	Hook or By Crrok	Emotional Blackmail	03:33
Drastic Measures	Big Town Boy (Shirley Matthews)	ST	02:00
e	Power Blackout	The Levitation Syndrome	02:39
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Mr. Crystal	Space and Time	05:32
Extras	Seeing You Again	The Road to Zambando	03:40
Kaméléon	Caravane (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	03:32
Instructions	Suburban Dream	ST	04:15
Diodes	Heat or the Beat	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:38
Iko	Digital Delight	83	05:53
John Young Paul	The Monster in Ed	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:06
Martha And The Muffins	Casualties of Glass	This Is The Ice Age	05:17
Erect	Lay Down and Die	Consequence of Life	03:18
Reasons	Boy He's Got a Girl	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:52
Jon Mullane	With You	Following Yesterday	03:59
Kaméléon	Rouge barbele	ST	04:54
Null Set	Stripe	New Job (EP)	01:18
Land of Giants	Fountains in the Rain	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:30
Psyche	Psychic Vampire	Insomnia Theatre	02:55
Border	All in All	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:53
Rob Bryanton	Gimme a Beer!	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:24
Handful of Snowdrops	Chemical Engineering (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:22
Drastic Measures	I Feel Bad	ST	02:04
Within Gothic Towers	In The Darkness	Within Gothic Towers	04:38
Corsage	City Sleeps	ST	04:17
Modern Minds	Wasted Lives	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	03:01
Rex Chainbelt	Goodbye Carol	Foreign Movie	03:24
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Lindsay	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:11
Compilation	Voodoo - Stormy Eyes	Toronto Calling	04:34
Avril Chown	Losin’ Sight	American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight	03:53
Images In Vogue	Victimize	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:19
Compilation	Kinetic Ideals - The Whip (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:21
Lou Champagne System	Machine Muzik	No Visible Means	04:20
Bangkok	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own	02:13
Rex Chainbelt	Talk It Over	Foreign Movie	02:15
Age of Mirrors	Everything Looks The Same	Mirage	03:38
IQ	Burn Me	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:53
Conning Tower	Indian Dancing	Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under	04:40
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Images In Vogue	So Careful (Extended Mix)	So Careful (Extended Mix)	07:17
Class Info	Circle Game	Inside	02:20
B-Sides	Underground Radio Stars (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:40
A Neon Rome	Bsus5	A Neon Rome	08:25
Popular Front (1)	World Weary	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	04:54
Absolute 9	Stop Thinking	ST	03:14
Extras	Cult Kids	Bit Parts	03:07
Glamorcult	Afterglow	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:44
This Fear	Haunting Me	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:23
Handful of Snowdrops	The Scariest Notion (1st Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:08
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News	Midnite News	03:15
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Let Them Eat Static	Midnite News	04:37
Second Thoughts	Integrity	Integrity b/w Wound Up	03:19
A Day in Paris	Child's Cry	Prey	03:45
Bündock	Silhouette	Société Anonyme	04:06
A Day in Paris	cAn'T lOoK aWaY	Rhymes On Vinyl	04:03
Images In Vogue	Lust for Love	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:18
Numbers	Won't You Call	Add Up	03:11
Modernettes	New Society	Gone..But Not Forgiven	02:30
Fictions	Jersey Shore	ST	02:48
Cardboard Brains	Ermie Has Feelers	Live At The Edge	05:36
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News III	Midnite News	04:25
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Crusaders	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	03:49
Spoons	Talk Back	Talkback	04:37
NEO A4	One's Enough	ST	03:40
Benjamin Russell	Out of it Girl	Madman	01:37
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Dead Dogs	Spunker	02:32

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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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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