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
Government	I Don't Really Care	Electric Eye	04:04
Psyche	Prisoner to Desire	Unveiling The Secret	05:37
Modern Minds	The Mess	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:09
Streetcar Named Desire	Life Begins	Life Begins	04:40
NEO A4	Is This It	The Warmer Side of You	03:32
The Front	Who Your Friends Are	Gina's at a Party	03:45
100 Flowers	Haunted	21st Guessing	05:09
Glen Meadmore	Lovin' In My Oven	Chicken & Biscuits	04:07
Instructions	Wicked Heart	ST	04:02
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	I Tie My Shoes	Midnite News	05:25
Kinetic Ideals	Fade Away	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	07:44
39 Steps	Someday is Today [original]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:33
Cardboard Brains	Summertime!	Live At The Edge	03:31
Boys Brigade	Cut Up	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:25
Hot Tip	Never Look Back	Stop All Motion	03:25
Edsells	Don't Wanna Go to School	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	03:06
Spoons	Old Emotions	Talkback	03:42
Inner Sanction	I Cherish	Dancematic-Automatic	03:10
Rex Chainbelt	Goodbye Carol	Foreign Movie	03:24
Government	Following You	Electric Eye	02:07
Popular Front (1)	World Weary	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	04:54
Glamorcult	Mine is the Maiden	Early Glamour	04:39
I Braineater	Songs for the Masses	I Here, Where You	03:43
Hunger Project	Assembly	Demo 1982	04:48
Lunasam	Redhead	Redhead	03:52
Térapi	Lève-toi!	Primale	02:13
Drama	Space Age Punks	Loneliness	02:37
Diodes	Hot Sand (1981 Remixed Version 2017)	Rarities	03:18
Land of Giants	Fire With Fire	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:50
Sex Church	Dull Light	Growing Over	03:42
I Braineater	Edge	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:30
Austra	The Noise	Feel it Break	03:31
Modernettes	Red Nails	View From The Bottom (EP)	03:02
Awake The Echoes	Turn That Bloody Noise Down	Normal Life	03:15
Glamorcult	Follow the Shadow	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:24
Tame & Talking	Conditioned Manaid	ST	04:01
Diodes	Catwalker	Action-Reaction	03:29
Iko	Elevator	83	03:56
Shanghai Lil	Nirvana - Oh What a Night	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:57
Benjamin Russell	Teresa	Madman	04:15
One Hand Clapping	The Moon is Blue	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	02:39
Diodes	Photographs Of Mars (Live At The Horseshoe June 7 1980)	Rarities	04:32
Psyche	You're the Only One	Mystery Hotel	03:28
A Day in Paris	jUsT tHe sAmE	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:42
Scott Matthews	Boats in Rivers	Boats in Rivers	04:50
Cottage Industry	The Point on a Hill	The Winter's Tale	03:59
Clooz	You Can Do	Leave Me Alone b/w You Can Do	03:02
Jon Mullane	Destiny	Following Yesterday	04:45
Censure	Amour	Foxy Lady b/w Amour	04:33
Bunny & the Lakers	t.b. Farm (Kiss Me Now)	Numbers	01:27
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Love in 3-D	Space and Time	03:36
Decade of Dreams	One Night in Bohemia	Wild Colloquial	03:50
I Braineater	Waste	I Here, Where You	02:39
Red Herring	Maturity	Taste Tests	04:23
Hot Tip	My Shoes	Stop All Motion	03:52
Moev	In Your Head	Zimmerkampf	04:35
Diodes	Tennis Again (Sept. 1977 Toronto Sound Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	03:12
Norda	West Over Seas	West Over Seas	05:54
Handful of Snowdrops	Still We Live (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:37
Border	Black and White	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:01
Tenants	Schoolgirl	ST	02:47
Psyche	Insatiable	Mystery Hotel	04:41
39 Steps	American Woman	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:11
Null Set	Judgement Days	New Job (EP)	02:19
Pointed Sticks	Out of Luck	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:32
Bunny & the Lakers	Weekend Guests	Numbers	01:57
Johnny Zhivago	Echo	Microalbum	04:03
Entrance System	Minimal Spirits	Imperfect Image	03:24
Philip Rambow	Magnificient Obsession	Jungle Law	03:39
Palace at 4 a.m.	White Guilt	White Guilt	04:34
Friendly Fire	Beverly Blue	Junior Senility EP	03:52
Redlife	Hope for Tomorrow	Hope for Tomorrow b/w Round	03:44
Compilation	Arson - We've Gotta Get Out of this Place	No Pedestrians	04:26
Direktive 17	Between You & Me	ST (EP)	03:38
Deserters	Protection	ST	03:20
Awake The Echoes	Someone	Normal Life	04:07
Nex'd	Surreal	Surreal (EP)	05:45
Compilation	Kinetic Ideals - The Whip (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:21
Glen Meadmore	Girlene	Chicken & Biscuits	05:07
Pale Blue	Ruin	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:25
The Scene (2)	Egos Trip	Only in Paradise	06:34
Handful of Snowdrops	What You Want	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:30
Broken Tables	Image of You	ST	04:24
Images In Vogue	Breaking Up	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	05:26
Vital Sines	Subway Suicide	Subway Suicide E.P.	04:51
Vital Sines	Big Dark Dreams	Big Dark Dreams	05:25
The Pink Zone	Amsterdam Day	Amsterdam Day b/w You Or Me	04:09
Strange Advance	Prisoner	Worlds Away	04:15
Diodes	Coma	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
Ceramic Hello	Geometry	The Absence of a Canary	07:25
Drama	God Is a Machine	Loneliness	02:27
Benjamin Russell	Dance Man	Pop Modern(e)	04:12
Cottage Industry	Things Go Up	The Winter's Tale	03:34
Odd Man Out	Whatever Happened to Us	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	04:02
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower & the Hippies	ST (EP)	02:29
Blueprints	Tribute to a Fool	Stare 01	03:50
Contradance	Trouble in the Darkness	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	05:53
Hygiene Club	Girls at the Bank	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	02:05
Class Info	Out of Line	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	04:04
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	Midnite News	03:44

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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 - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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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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Compilation - The Circuit

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Moral Support - Insanity

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Scenics - Underneath the Door

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