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
BB Gabor	Hunger, Poverty and Misery	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	03:50
Hygiene Club	Pantechnicon - for Gary	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	01:15
Images In Vogue	So Careful (Extended Mix)	So Careful (Extended Mix)	07:17
Rex Chainbelt	Foreign Movie	Foreign Movie	02:42
Cardboard Brains	Have You Seen The Boy In The Gutter With The Broken Mind?	Live At The Edge	02:05
Strange Advance	Prisoner	Worlds Away	04:15
Extras	One Last Time	Bit Parts	03:45
Handful of Snowdrops	Gabrielle	Land of the Damned	06:32
Robert Armes	Radio Active	Nearly Out of Control b/w Radio Active	02:31
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Love in 3-D	Space and Time	03:36
Corsage	City Sleeps	ST	04:17
Braineaters	Closet Case	Planet X	01:26
Electric Mocean	Motion	Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)	04:03
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:12
Direktive 17	Don’t Pass Me By	ST (EP)	05:07
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Direct	ST	03:43
A Day in Paris	cAn'T lOoK aWaY	Rhymes On Vinyl	04:03
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Golden Calgarians	Happy Man	Savage Love	02:10
Handful of Snowdrops	Counterclockwise (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:30
Rational Youth	City of Night	Cold War Nightlife	04:02
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Flying Goodbye	Ohama aka The White Album	03:45
Kaméléon	Un p'tit coup	ST	04:03
Land of Giants	Cannibal Dolls	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
39 Steps	A Taste of Poison [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:35
Austra	The Future	Feel it Break	04:02
Within Gothic Towers	I've Got A Reason And You've Got A Prayer	Within Gothic Towers	04:41
Glamorcult	I Have Nothing To Say To You	The Stone Sessions	04:01
Images In Vogue	Lust for Love	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:18
Diodes	Time Damage (Sept. 1977 Toronto Sound Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	02:18
Kings	Don't let Me Know	Are Here	04:00
The Scene (2)	I Am	Only in Paradise	04:14
Streetcar Named Desire	A Month of Sundays	Life Begins	04:36
Deserters	Take It Away	ST	03:26
Popular Front (1)	World Weary	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	04:54
Extras	Don’t Put Me On Hold	The Road to Zambando	02:52
Images In Vogue	Call it Love	In The House	03:51
The Edge	Play the Game	Release the Circle	04:07
Eight Seconds	Sincere	Almacantar	04:27
Blue Peter	Do the Robot	Test Patterns For Living	03:25
Quasi Hands	Oil Barons	ST	03:49
Start	Out of the Tube	Hey You	02:27
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Handful of Snowdrops	Messengers (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:18
I Braineater	Just a Boy	I Here, Where You	02:52
Age of Mirrors	Talk of the Crowd	Mirage	04:13
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Baby, Baby	Space and Time	03:35
Secret Act	Talk Talk!	My Neighbourhood	02:55
Awake The Echoes	Turn That Bloody Noise Down	Normal Life	03:15
Philip Rambow	Jessica	Jungle Law	04:00
DeMars	Torn to Pieces	Songs From Between The Walls	03:35
Oui	Circle of Love	Oui	04:20
Golden Calgarians	Vladivostok Rock	Savage Love	04:03
Scenics	Walk in the Desert	Underneath the Door	01:32
e	Power Blackout	The Levitation Syndrome	02:39
Einstein	Body & Mind	Sex and Science	03:49
Voice	Wake Up Dreaming	Anno Di Voce	04:05
Informer	I Know You Know	I Know You Know b/w Hold It	03:09
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cold War Nightlife	03:14
Johnny Faith	Pure Energy	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:55
Rational Youth	Freeze	Heredity	05:00
Faded Films	East of the Asylum	Faded Years	04:46
Rave Revues	Everyone’s a Critic	Voices	06:45
Tower Bridge	Perfection	Perfection b/w Out of My Mind Girl (picture sleeve)	04:07
The Play	Whispers in the Air	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:50
Glamorcult	Time Is Running Out	Shadows From The Past	03:16
Degrees of Freedom	Call Me Midnight	China	04:51
Drastic Measures	Hotsy Totsy - Postlude	ST	04:25
John Young Paul	The Girl Spells Grief	The Life of Ermie Scub	01:38
Entrance System	Can't Deny the Rain	Imperfect Image	06:18
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	05:12
The Edge	Go Away	Release the Circle	03:11
Blueprints	Down On My Sublife	Stare 01	04:06
Hot Tip	Friends	Stop All Motion	03:49
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39
Instructions	D-6	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:32
Trespassing Bean Rays	Cleanorama Stakes	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:21
A Kid	Dirty Bedding	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:35
Big Dog	Monkey See, Monkey Do	99 Change Hands	01:52
Glen Meadmore	Gotta Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:04
I Braineater	Davie Street	I Here, Where You	02:54
The Front	Twice Shy	Underworld	03:37
Living End (1)	Dislocation	ST	03:16
Diodes	Time of Your Life (1978 Previously Unreleased)	Rarities	02:46
Strange Advance	Worlds Away	Worlds Away	07:00
Jon Mullane	With You	Following Yesterday	03:59
Pukka Orchestra	This Sordid Thing Called Love	The Palace Of Memeory	04:17
Handful of Snowdrops	Remedy (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:34
NEO A4	The Warmer Side Of You	The Warmer Side of You	04:13
Compilation	Vital Sines - Not My World (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:15
Bobby and Synthia	The Music Stopped	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:36
Darkroom	Pressure	San Paku	04:09
Censure	Amour	Foxy Lady b/w Amour	04:33
Vis-A-Vis	I am the Night	Heart and Soul	03:40
Glen Meadmore	Lovin' In My Oven	Chicken & Biscuits	04:07
A Day in Paris	jUsT tHe sAmE	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:42
Government	Gunshot Wound	Electric Eye	02:56
Pierre Perpall	Da Da Da (Vocal)	Da Da Da	03:50
Kaméléon	Les chats ballerines	ST	03:53
Bobby and Synthia	Chant #2	thirty-six hours (EP)	04:00

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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