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
Diodes	Tennis Again (Sept. 1977 Toronto Sound Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	03:12
Age of Mirrors	Orange Blossom Special	Mirage	04:00
Barking Boys	Here She Comes	The Yes Girls	03:55
The Front	Hit and Run	Underworld	04:14
Absolute 9	Stop Thinking	ST	03:14
Darkroom	Proven Guilty	San Paku	03:32
Spoons	No More Growing Up	Arias & Symphonies	03:25
Spoons	Walk Across the Water	Bridges Over Borders	04:44
Moral Lepers	Music is Your Body	Turn to Stone	02:45
Kaméléon	Les chats ballerines	ST	03:53
Reasons	Playing With Your Heart	Reasonable Rock (EP)	03:53
Shanghai Lil	Flower And a Bee	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:28
Kreemers	At The El Mocambo	Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo	02:48
Kings	My Habit	Are Here	03:41
Neon	Slaves	ST (EP)	03:00
Men Without Hats	Antarctica	Folk of the 80's (EP)	03:25
Scenics	New Part in Town	New Part In Town	03:31
Golden Calgarians	Happy Man	Savage Love	02:10
Handful of Snowdrops	Astronauts (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:31
39 Steps	Priscilla	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:32
The Front	The Moon Is a Stranger	Underworld	03:12
Conning Tower	Indian Dancing	Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under	04:40
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Pumpin' For Jill	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:02
Government	Plaza del Pimps	How Many Fingers?	03:13
Living End (1)	Blow	ST	02:35
Rex Chainbelt	Rich Man	Foreign Movie	02:52
Punkin Machine	Zarcon Rock On	Zarcon Rock On // Zarcon Rock On	03:40
Philip Rambow	Magnificient Obsession	Jungle Law	03:39
Red Herring	Taste Tests	Taste Tests	02:50
Moev	Remembrance Day	Zimmerkampf	05:23
Blue Peter	Same Old Place	Test Patterns For Living	03:12
Golden Calgarians	Vladivostok Rock	Savage Love	04:03
e	Power Blackout	The Levitation Syndrome	02:39
Inner Sanction	Standing in the Rain	Prophecy	03:21
Dada	If I'm Blind	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:46
Oui	Fight Back	Oui	03:46
Rex Chainbelt	Allies	Foreign Movie	03:47
Rex Chainbelt	Run Away	Foreign Movie	02:43
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Baby, Baby	Space and Time	03:35
Contradance	Trouble in the Darkness	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	05:53
Spice	Beautiful You	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	03:23
Bicycle Thieves	Anita	ST	03:31
Handful of Snowdrops	The Ghost of a Song	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:44
Living End (1)	Better Pictures	ST	02:53
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Darkroom	It's Cold Out Here	San Paku	03:44
This Fear	Haunting Me	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:23
Secret Act	Night Club	My Neighbourhood	03:45
Braineaters	Modern Man	Planet X	02:15
Nevermen	Living in the Past	The Monitor LP	04:17
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
Rave Revues	Long Time Coming	Long Time Coming b/w Rules Of Play (picture sleeve)	04:11
Glamatron	Porcelain Doll	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:49
Men Without Hats	Where do Boys Go	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	03:56
Strange Advance	Automatic Sighs	Worlds Away	04:41
3rd Man In	What to Believe	New Fast b/w What to Believe (picture sleeve)	03:43
Bündock	Pris par le temps	Société Anonyme	03:23
Psyche	The Dark Pool	The Influence	04:54
Scenics	O Charlotte	New Part In Town	03:44
Mettle	The Second Person	ST	03:47
Handful of Snowdrops	The Keep (Interim Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:31
Diodes	Edge of Darkness	Action-Reaction	03:10
State Of Mind	I'll Be Yours	I'll Be Yours b/w The Dark Side (picture sleeve)	03:29
John Young Paul	Have You Seen the Boy in the Gutter with the Broken Mind?	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:10
B-Sides	Underground Radio Stars (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	01:59
Pointed Sticks	Out of Luck	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:32
Tribal Earth	Got to Move	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	04:09
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:41
John Bell and the Strange	Taking You Home in a Taxi	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	03:24
Images In Vogue	Victimize	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:19
Hush	Highway of Love	Replay	03:31
Start	Out of the Tube	Hey You	02:27
Glen Meadmore	Do Me Baby	Chicken & Biscuits	05:01
Compilation	Dave Howard Singers - Road Warrior	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	08:01
Tyro	Strong Willed Woman	A Little More Time (EP)	02:27
A Neon Rome	Islam	A Neon Rome	10:18
Ceramic Hello	Staticarnival	The Absence of a Canary	01:18
Strange Advance	Prisoner	Worlds Away	04:15
Images In Vogue	Fade Away	Educated Man	03:31
Vis-A-Vis	I am the Night	Heart and Soul	03:40
Eight Seconds	Listen	Almacantar	05:17
Spunker (aka Neotone)	I'm in the Stars For You	Spunker	04:36
Drama	God Is a Machine	Loneliness	02:27
Darkroom	San Paku	San Paku	05:06
Compilation	Colin Davison - Love's Gone	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Corsage	Troubles	ST	04:57
John Young Paul	The Boulevards of Hope	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:37
Rave Revues	Play in Your Grave	Voices	04:31
Tyro	City Life	A Little More Time (EP)	03:02
Iko	Elevator	83	03:56
Trespassing Bean Rays	Cleanorama Stakes	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:21
Psyche	Misery	The Influence	04:06
D.A.R.Y.L.	Time 2 Start Again	Time 2 Start Again b/w Time 2 Start Again (Garage Mix)	04:35
Spoons	Conventional Beliefs	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:57
Martha And The Muffins	Boy Without Filters	This Is The Ice Age	04:58
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	ST (mini album)	05:27
Broken Tables	The Ruins	ST	05:50
CosmaNat	Camping Song	Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)	02:17
Buddy King & the Motion!	I Didn't Know Her	Schoolgirl Alibis b/w I Didn't Know Her	02:14
Hot Tip	My Shoes	Stop All Motion	03:52

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Friendly Fire - Junior Senility EP

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