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
Null Set	Judgement Days	New Job (EP)	02:19
Edsells	Don't Wanna Go to School	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	03:06
Tenants	How Do You Sleep at Night?	ST	04:34
Fictions	Praying for the World	ST	03:06
Spice	Beautiful You	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	03:23
The Gas	Special This Week	Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)	02:14
Images In Vogue	Breaking Up	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	05:26
Inner Sanction	Sparkle	Shake Up - Fly Down	02:51
Deserters	Alien	ST	03:43
Glamorcult	The Light We Will Hold	A Price To Paris	04:23
DeMars	Véhiculation humaine	Les Télé-Têtes	04:54
Images In Vogue	Masks	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:56
DeMars	Les zoos arborifères	Les Télé-Têtes	03:09
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Shock Culture	Haunted by Tokyo	ST (EP)	03:49
Palace at 4 a.m.	Untamed World	Untamed World	03:52
Ceramic Hello	Geometry	The Absence of a Canary	07:25
David Raven & the Escorts	One Way Love	David Raven And The Escorts	02:36
Sebastian (Agnello)	No Compromise	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:34
Mr. Science	Popeshat	Popeshat b/w Where R the Legs	04:15
Hygiene Club	Hawaii	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	03:00
Doppler Bros.	Leaving Home	Totally Impractical	02:21
Rex Chainbelt	Allies	Foreign Movie	03:47
Austra	The Noise	Feel it Break	03:31
I Braineater	Alone	I Here, Where You	02:41
Tame & Talking	Fashion Fit	ST	04:08
Rational Youth	Call Me	Heredity	02:59
No Comment	Honesty	Wondering b/w Honesty	03:46
Erect	Weekend	Consequence of Life	02:41
Cannon Heath Down	Julia Rainbow	Heart-Throb Companion	04:31
Blue Peter	Out With the Boys	Test Patterns For Living	03:08
Glamorcult	Carry the Water	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:47
Kings	Anti Hero man	Are Here	03:26
Benjamin Russell	Dance Man	Pop Modern(e)	04:12
Bitter Reality	Tellin' Me Goodbye	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:38
Scenics	Farm Reports and Test Patterns	New Part In Town	03:50
Mannequin Depressives	I Don't Get You	Girls Are Evil	04:31
Scenics	Great Piles of Leaves	Underneath the Door	04:18
Government	It Must be God-Downtown	Electric Eye	02:52
Martha And The Muffins	Motorbikin'	Trance and Dance	02:58
Kings	My Habit	Are Here	03:41
Diodes	Polaroid	Action-Reaction	02:37
Volts	Never Enough	Plugged In	03:03
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	01:00
Strange Advance	Prisoner	Worlds Away	04:15
Rarefaction	Ordinary Man	Ordinary Man	04:17
True Confessions	7-11 Heaven	ST	02:17
Perfect World	Twist and Shove	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	03:18
Fictions	Dimestore Romance	ST	03:44
Spoons	For Tran	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:45
Instructions	Tell-a-Photo	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:38
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Stand	Spunker	02:36
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Pumpin' For Jill	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:02
Hot Tip	Bridge to Manhattan	Stop All Motion	03:05
I Braineater	Sacred Cow	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:03
Tin Twist	Sometimes It's Funny	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	03:38
Nowhere	No More	No More b/w Living	04:56
Diodes	Nowhere Fast (Aug 1977 Crash 'N' Burn Demo)	Rarities	02:50
Benjamin Russell	Baby, This Is Love	Madman	02:04
Scenics	Bubbles	Underneath the Door	02:26
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets (Bonus Track)	A Price To Paris	04:15
Martha And The Muffins	Primal Weekend	Trance and Dance	05:14
Jon Mullane	Somebody	Following Yesterday	03:15
Spoons	Bridges Over Borders	Bridges Over Borders	05:02
Extras	Zambando	The Road to Zambando	04:17
Men Without Hats	Utter Space	Folk of the 80's (EP)	02:44
Decade of Dreams	A Conversation With Myself	Wild Colloquial	03:32
Compilation	Youth Youth Youth - Wanderlust	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	01:58
Government	Paranoid Downtown Funk Pt. 2	How Many Fingers?	02:32
Eight Seconds	Beyond the Shock	Big Houses	05:34
Extras	I Never Told You, I Told You So	The Watcher (EP)	04:26
Eight Seconds	No Picasso	Big Houses	05:04
Figures At Dawn	It Doesn't Matter	ST	04:31
Kaméléon	Les chats ballerines	ST	03:53
Compilation	Dis Band - Hesitation (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:16
Bündock	Season for Love	Société Anonyme	04:11
Kinetic Ideals	Structures	Reason (EP)	04:47
Martha And The Muffins	Halfway Through the Week	Trance and Dance	03:41
Cannon Heath Down	quagmire	Heart-Throb Companion	00:30
The Scene (2)	Egos Trip	Only in Paradise	06:34
Extras	Turning it Out	The Road to Zambando	04:24
Censure	Amour	Foxy Lady b/w Amour	04:33
Andrew Matheson	Can't Stop the Angels	Monterey Shoes	06:57
Spunker (aka Neotone)	I'm in the Stars For You	Spunker	04:36
Start	Hey You	Hey You	04:03
John Bell and the Strange	Taking You Home in a Taxi	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	03:24
Interpol	When Rock 'n' Roll Was in the Hole	ST	02:26
Modern Minds	20 Years Old	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:59
Ralph Mashats	Irradies	Irradies b/w Empty Eyes (Fly My Way) (picture sleeve)	03:54
The Pink Zone	Amsterdam Day	Amsterdam Day b/w You Or Me	04:09
Rex Chainbelt	Disco	Foreign Movie	00:46
Eight Seconds	Tell Diane	Big Houses	04:45
Rational Youth	Saturdays in Silesia	Cold War Nightlife	04:21
Novels	Son of Sam	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	02:35
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Reactors	Alien Radio	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:22
Clooz	You Can Do	Leave Me Alone b/w You Can Do	03:02
Generra	Don’t Cut Me	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	03:57
Bunny & the Lakers	Yalps From the Alpa	Numbers	02:35
Joe Naylor	I'm Canadian Beer	I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights	02:23

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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DeMars - Songs From Between The Walls

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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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