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
Extras	Teddy	Bit Parts	05:50
Bunny & the Lakers	Inhalation - Ventilation	Numbers	02:07
Compilation	Mike Peters - Trucker's Paradise	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Class Info	Out of Line	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	04:04
Age of Mirrors	Don't Let Your Love Slip Away	Screenplay	03:54
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Talking About	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:06
Channel Five	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
Hygiene Club	Pantechnicon - for Gary	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	01:15
Within Gothic Towers	I've Got A Reason And You've Got A Prayer	Within Gothic Towers	04:41
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Exit From a Dream	05:27
Timothy Chipman	Joy to the World	Ghost Parade	01:32
The Front	The Hard Line	Gina's at a Party	03:06
Demars	Le zaratt express	Les Tele-Tetes	04:11
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Psyche	Maggots	Insomnia Theatre	04:27
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Lindsay	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:11
Hot Tip	Friends	Stop All Motion	03:49
Degrees of Freedom	Risk	China	03:46
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald	Red to Black	03:52
Secret Act	Poor Boy	My Neighbourhood	03:36
Handful of Snowdrops	The View (1984)	Mort en direct	05:16
Government	Following You	Electric Eye	02:07
Rational Youth	I've Got a Sister in the Navy	Heredity	03:41
Moral Lepers	Shadow	Turn to Stone	03:03
Martha And The Muffins	Primal Weekend	Trance and Dance	05:14
Kinetic Ideals	Angular Sky	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	06:57
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Instrumental)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:18
The Front	Who Your Friends Are	Gina's at a Party	03:45
Oui	Intelligence	Oui	03:56
Tim Ray	Silent Partner	ST	02:47
Vital Sines	New Heroes	Big Dark Dreams	04:55
Images In Vogue	Awaken Me	In The House	03:47
Diodes	Catwalker	Action-Reaction	03:29
Psyche	You're the Only One	Mystery Hotel	03:28
Pukka Orchestra	Your Secret is Safe With Me	ST	04:11
S.Q	Alone at Night	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:10
John Lutz T.	Street Corner Sally	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	03:06
Moev	Kim Says	Dusk and Desire	03:41
Living End	Death at an Early Age	Death at an Early Age b/w Magic Carpet Ride	03:12
Tame & Talking	The Hole	ST	03:11
Jon Mullane	Somebody	Following Yesterday	03:15
Salt And the Choppers	Flounder	I And You b/w Flounder (picture sleeve)	03:01
Entrance System	Tower Talk	Imperfect Image	05:53
39 Steps	Priscilla	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:32
39 Steps	Teachers	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:22
Red Herring	Taste Tests	Taste Tests	02:50
True Confessions	Mating Games	ST	03:06
Strange Advance	One Chance in a Million	Worlds Away	04:12
Demars	La nouvelle epoque	Les Tele-Tetes	04:01
Kings	Don't let Me Know	Are Here	04:00
Barking Boys	Cool It Down	The Yes Girls	04:11
Corsage	Shut-Ins	ST	03:11
Voice	Lime	Anno Di Voce	02:58
Diodes	Behind Those Eyes (Aug 1977 Crash 'N' Burn Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	02:42
Blueprints	I Fell Down	Stare 01	03:35
Decade of Dreams	A Conversation With Myself	Wild Colloquial	03:32
B-Sides	Run and Hide	Red to Black	03:40
Doppler Bros.	I Wanna Write for the Muzak Man	Totally Impractical	03:58
Andrew Matheson	It Only Hurts When I Cry	Monterey Shoes	03:25
Lou Champagne System	Selling So Sweet	No Visible Means	02:48
Eight Seconds	Sincere	Almacantar	04:27
e	Dance With Me	The Levitation Syndrome	03:36
B-Sides	Late at Night	Red to Black	03:28
Absolute 9	We're Waiting	ST	02:40
Norda	Snakes And Ladders	West Over Seas	02:51
Glamorcult	On The Line	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:04
Direktive 17	Between the Lines	ST (EP)	03:42
Philip Rambow	Creature Comforts	Jungle Law	02:28
I Braineater	Tin Pins and Cat Fur	I Here, Where You	02:36
Mettle	Five-Four	ST	04:39
A Neon Rome	The Magical Summer of '85	New Heroin	03:17
Cannon Heath Down	A Charming Sound	Heart-Throb Companion	04:25
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Teasers	I Love You	Love Me Like You Did Last Night b/w I Love You	02:08
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Timeless Thoughts (To the Stars)	Space and Time	04:54
Pukka Orchestra	Listen to the Radio	ST	03:48
Eight Seconds	Picture	Big Houses	06:13
Barking Boys	Ghost Story	The Yes Girls	04:09
Rikki & The Rokkits	New Wave	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:10
Glamorcult	All Those Lies	The Stone Sessions	03:25
Rational Youth	Just a Sound in the Night	Cold War Nightlife	05:06
Start	Gotta Have Love	Hey You	04:49
Compilation	Kinetic Ideals - The Whip (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:21
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	A Neon Rome	05:20
Chris Evans & The Quarts	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	03:36
Rolf Kempf	One More Time	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:26
Tenants	Winner	ST	03:21
Salt And the Choppers	I And You	I And You b/w Flounder (picture sleeve)	02:41
NEO A4	Around the World	ST	04:00
Breeding Ground	Epic	Tales of Adventure (EP)	06:43
39 Steps	American Woman	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:11
Benjamin Russell	Gentle Charms	Madman	01:48
The Scene (2)	Gardens of Babylon	Only in Paradise	04:56
Glamorcult	Shadows From The Past	Shadows From The Past	03:54
Jon Mullane	In Our Hearts	Following Yesterday	03:22
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Over Mountains	Ohama aka The White Album	03:14
Dada	I.D	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:29
Hygiene Club	Sea Monster	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	03:10
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Magic Dragon	Objet Du Desire	Emotional Landscape	05:34

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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