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
Blue Oil	Free Fleas On the Roof	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:32
Handful of Snowdrops	Over My Head (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:44
Home Grown	Thoughts of You	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:11
Images In Vogue	Victimize	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:19
Kings	Don't let Me Know	Are Here	04:00
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Lindsay	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:11
Iko	Subway 49	83	04:53
Villains	I Don't Care	Go Crazy	03:09
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heart of the Mind	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:27
Modernes Pickles	Life in Ancient Greece	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:19
Modernes Pickles	Are You a Martian	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	04:03
Neurons	New Location	Midnight Meetings b/w New Location	00:07
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't Look Now	Spunker	03:44
Compilation	The Sharks - Get Off the Radio	No Pedestrians	03:00
Minutes From Downtown	Emotion Under Pressure	Minutes From Downtown '82	04:14
Popular Front (1)	We One	This is the Rubicon	04:59
Decade of Dreams	Stop This Car	Wild Colloquial	02:12
Boys Brigade	Black + White	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	07:46
ACTORS	Death from Above	Acts of Worship	03:32
The Idles	Please Don't Call	The Idles Demo	02:44
Velveteens	Tired of the Beat	Tall House (EP)	03:30
Oui	People Talk	Oui	03:50
The Scene (2)	Egos Trip	Only in Paradise	06:34
Rex Chainbelt	Test Tube Baby	Foreign Movie	01:53
ACTORS	Crystal	It Will Come to You	03:40
Shanghai Lil	Flower And a Bee	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:28
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
Pale Blue	Ruin	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:25
UJ3RK5	Marnie	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:32
Start	In Passion	Hey You	03:24
Voice	Wake Up Dreaming	Anno Di Voce	04:05
Volts	Welcome	Plugged In	04:21
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News III	Midnite News	04:25
Degrees of Freedom	Call Me Midnight	China	04:51
Preison's Shade	Don't Leave Me Alone	Race Me Home (EP)	05:11
Direktive 17	You’re Only Dreaming	ST (EP)	04:01
Handful of Snowdrops	Chemical Engineering (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:22
Rational Youth	Close to Nature	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:43
Red Herring	Feelings	Taste Tests	02:21
Awake The Echoes	Love For Life	Normal Life	03:31
The Diodes	Lost in the Dark	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
39 Steps	I'll Take the Blame	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:25
Breeding Ground	Wintergarden	Wintergarden (EP)	04:20
ACTORS	Bury Me	It Will Come to You	03:28
Moral Lepers	Dead of Night	Turn to Stone	03:59
Compilation	Don Bregg - Hypnotized	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:27
Spoons	Show & Tell	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:31
Ralph Mashats	Irradies	Irradies b/w Empty Eyes (Fly My Way) (picture sleeve)	03:54
Avril Chown	American Boys	American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight	03:04
39 Steps	Hit It Up	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:14
Drama	Human Question	Loneliness	02:38
Glen Meadmore	Going to Town	Chicken & Biscuits	05:09
Annabelle's Room	Hopscotch	ST	04:41
Cinebar	Another Fine Day	Another Fine Day	03:37
Drama	Jungle Chant	Loneliness	03:28
FM109	S.O.S.	ST	03:54
I Braineater	I Am	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:07
Instructions	D-6	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:32
Compilation	Zro4 - Blood	No Pedestrians	03:29
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:14
Tim Ray	No Emotion (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:42
Breeding Ground	Happy Now I Know	Tales of Adventure (EP)	03:45
Martha And The Muffins	Was Ezo	Trance and Dance	03:58
Novels	Son of Sam	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	02:35
FM109	Mirror Man	ST	03:17
Vex	DNA	DNA	03:24
Einstein	Nasti Nastassja	Sex and Science	04:35
Figures At Dawn	Close My Eyes	ST	04:54
Jon Mullane	One More Chance (for u)	Following Yesterday	04:29
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Mr. Cocteau's Holiday	ST	02:17
Compilation	Sigi Jonsson - Trying To Find Her	Toronto Calling	02:25
Glamatron	Passport (Instrumental)	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:30
Pukka Orchestra	Listen to the Radio	ST	03:48
Friendly Fire	Junior Senility	Junior Senility EP	02:54
Rave Revues	Self Inflicted Wounds	Voices	03:06
Absolute 9	Love and Work	Love and Work b/w Fence	03:48
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Crusaders	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	03:49
Broken Tables	Image of You	ST	04:24
The Front	Looking For You	Gina's at a Party	04:32
Government	Plaza del Pimps	How Many Fingers?	03:13
Avril Chown	Losin’ Sight	American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight	03:53
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Compilation	Arrows - Treat Her Right	Toronto Calling	02:52
Preison's Shade	Tearing Down the Walls	Race Me Home (EP)	04:52
Cannon Heath Down	Bone Of Contention	Heart-Throb Companion	03:34
Government	Sponge	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	02:22
100 Flowers	The Naught	21st Guessing	03:56
Philip Rambow	Jungle Law	Jungle Law	03:15
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Of Whales	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:36
Blue Oil	Stop Complaining	Blue Oil (1981-83)	04:22
Spoons	Shaking the Fear	Vertigo Tango	04:16
Philip Rambow	Snakes And Ladders	Jungle Law	03:52
Popular Front	Doomsday Army	Doomsday Army b/w Puppet	03:53
Strange Advance	Hold On to the Nite	Worlds Away	04:34
IQ	Sixth World	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:59
Oui	Free from Body	Oui	03:01
Nasty Habits	Cleopatra	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:27
Images In Vogue	For Germans	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:39
Catherine	Operating System	Operating System b/w Operating System	03:04
Fictions	Jersey Shore	ST	02:48

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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