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
Bunny & the Lakers	Yalps From the Alpa	Numbers	02:35
Scenics	Mony Mony	Underneath the Door	02:52
Diodes	Lawn Boy Lover (1977 previously unreleased)	Rarities	02:33
Inner Sanction	Hush	Shake Up - Fly Down	03:20
Darkroom	Tears Hold No Cure	San Paku	03:46
Oui	Turn of the Century	Oui	04:13
Barking Boys	Cool It Down	The Yes Girls	04:11
Fictions	Won't Wash Away	ST	03:20
Villains	Boogie Man	Go Crazy	04:24
Compilation	Julie Choquette - Dream in My Head	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:34
45's	On the Beach	On the Beach	04:05
Shock Culture	Something to Dream	ST (EP)	04:03
Images In Vogue	One Way Heart	In The House	03:30
Nevermen	Living in the Past	The Monitor LP	04:17
Compilation	Don Bregg - Hypnotized	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:27
Land of Giants	Just Yet	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:30
Images In Vogue	For Germans	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:39
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Feelings Feel	Ohama aka The White Album	02:57
Thieves	Police Squad	I See Red	03:27
Handful of Snowdrops	When Comes Daylight	Land of the Damned	05:01
Golden Calgarians	It's OK	Savage Love	03:13
Government	On The Prowl (Reprise)	Electric Eye	02:36
Calling Rain	Laid in Ruins	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	04:45
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	01:57
Taro	The Line Is Fine	The Line Is Fine b/w Driftin Away (picture sleeve)	03:21
The Front	The Moon Is a Stranger	Underworld	03:12
Lawn	Peace in the Valley	Peace in the Valley	03:37
The Scene (2)	Meet the Man	Only in Paradise	03:54
A Neon Rome	Islam	A Neon Rome	10:18
Corsage	Myself and You (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:00
Spoons	My Favourite Page	Talkback	04:01
Tin Twist	Stupid Cars	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	01:37
Degrees of Freedom	China	China	06:00
Cannon Heath Down	Having Dreams	Heart-Throb Companion	02:14
Decade of Dreams	I've Never Felt Like This	Wild Colloquial	02:47
The Front	The Haunting (Jimmy Loves Mary-Ann)	Gina's at a Party	04:07
Oui	You Make Me High	Oui	04:41
Figures At Dawn	It Doesn't Matter	ST	04:31
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	TV	Ohama aka The White Album	04:33
Start	Out of the Tube	Hey You	02:27
Kaméléon	Rouge barbele	ST	04:54
This Fear	Haunting Me	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:23
Secret Act	Our Little Secret	My Neighbourhood	04:36
Land of Giants	I Will	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:44
Bora Bora	Fashion Passion	Fashion Passion b/w Starting Over	03:47
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Roland Blinn	Tense	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	02:27
NEO A4	Say This to Me	ST	03:31
Glen Meadmore	Blissful Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:24
Glamorcult	Hope For Change To Come	Shadows From The Past	03:42
DeMars	Moonshadow	Stories from between the Walls	06:28
David Raven & the Escorts	Dance Dance Dance	David Raven And The Escorts	02:22
Einstein	A Brighter Tomorrow	Sex and Science	03:09
Class Info	Come For Me	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	02:27
Vital Sines	Break the Chains	Big Dark Dreams	02:53
Tower Bridge	Perfection	Perfection b/w Out of My Mind Girl (picture sleeve)	04:07
Inner Sanction	Direction Perfection	Dancematic-Automatic	04:32
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Promise	ST	04:31
The Front	Underworld	Underworld	03:59
Kinetic Ideals	In a Second	A Personal View (EP)	06:59
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Iko	Model Type A	83	05:08
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Corsage	Baby Said	ST	03:37
Moev	Madhatter	Zimmerkampf	04:50
Glamorcult	Loneliness (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:54
Awake The Echoes	The Best Thing	Normal Life	02:38
Benjamin Russell	Gentle Charms	Madman	01:48
IQ	Sixth World	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:59
Shanghai Lil	Flower And a Bee	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:28
Magic Dragon	Egyptian Radio	Emotional Landscape	04:12
Palace at 4 a.m.	Young and Italian	Untamed World	03:16
Popular Front	Doomsday Army	Doomsday Army b/w Puppet	03:53
Timothy Chipman	Night Patrol	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:22
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Love in 3-D	Space and Time	03:36
Strange Advance	Kiss in the Dark	Worlds Away	03:56
Paperboys (1)	Saturday 12 Midnight	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	03:33
Martha And The Muffins	Terminal Twilight	Metro Music	04:41
Braineaters	Johnny	Planet X	06:03
Doppler Bros.	The Wreck of the Eaton Centre	Totally Impractical	04:27
David Raven & the Escorts	One Way Love	David Raven And The Escorts	02:36
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets (Bonus Track)	A Price To Paris	04:15
Psyche	Psychic Vampire	Insomnia Theatre	02:55
Rave Revues	Nightmares	Voices	03:36
Secret Act	Heaven	My Neighbourhood	04:12
Land of Giants	Thing Called Love	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	06:57
Instructions	The Extra	ST	03:12
Within Gothic Towers	I Will Lead You	Within Gothic Towers	04:58
Eight Seconds	Sincere	Almacantar	04:27
Boys Brigade	Cut Up	Mannequin Demo	04:46
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
Border	All in All	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:53
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired (Live On Open Mike With Mike Bullard, Jan. 22 1999)	Rarities	03:51
Bruce PM	Senility	Makeshift	02:27
CosmaNat	Camping Song	Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)	02:17
Handful of Snowdrops	No More Lies (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:38
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:18
Breeding Ground	Dirge	Wintergarden (EP)	06:25
Compilation	Diatribe - Air Radio	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	03:34
Cannon Heath Down	Fortunate	Heart-Throb Companion	01:22

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Hunger Project - The Same Inside b/w Assembly

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Hunger Project - Demo 1982

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Klō - Demo 1981

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Klō - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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Klō - Demo 1982

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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Beach Punks - She Got Body Talk

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Hush - Replay

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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The Scene (2) - Only in Paradise

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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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