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
Direktive 17	Between the Lines	ST (EP)	03:42
Awake The Echoes	Always Something Wrong	Normal Life	03:59
Compilation	L'Etranger - Light in the Morning (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:44
FM109	Food On Nuclear Device	ST	06:38
Psyche	Eating Violins	Insomnia Theatre	02:45
Boys Brigade	Black + White	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	07:46
Robert Armes	Radio Active	Nearly Out of Control b/w Radio Active	02:31
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets (Bonus Track)	A Price To Paris	04:15
Scenics	Open Up Your Door	Underneath the Door	02:09
Design	Sayonara (remix)	No Turning Back	04:10
B-Sides	She's a Raver	Red to Black	02:36
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	A Neon Rome	05:20
Graphics	Our Planet Ocean	Sleepdancer b/w Our Planet Ocean	03:17
Modern Minds	Love to Me	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:32
Salty Seamen	Mindless Sex	In The Groove At Last	02:27
Corsage	Big Night Out (Single Mix)	Big Night Out (EP)	05:11
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:12
The Voxx	Flower Boy DVB	Flower Boy b/w Flower Boy DVB	04:47
Moev	In Your Head	Zimmerkampf	04:35
Second Thoughts	Wound Up	Integrity b/w Wound Up	02:50
The Scene (2)	Egos Trip	Only in Paradise	06:34
Start	Bad Girl	Hey You	03:53
Edsells	She Escaped	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	04:22
Hot Tip	Bridge to Manhattan	Stop All Motion	03:05
Moev	Feline Frauline	Zimmerkampf	02:46
Tyro	A Little More Time	A Little More Time (EP)	02:11
Figures At Dawn	Letters from London	ST	04:14
Diodes	Curiousity Girl	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:52
Secret Act	Poor Boy	My Neighbourhood	03:36
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Baby, Baby	Space and Time	03:35
Glamorcult	In Time (Only to be Free)	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:17
Men Without Hats	Safety Dance	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:24
Nex'd	Flexible	Surreal (EP)	06:21
Martha And The Muffins	Revenge (Against the World)	Metro Music	03:31
Salty Seamen	Star Train	In The Groove At Last	04:01
Escalators	Wooly Bully	ST	03:58
Images In Vogue	Foreign Affairs	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:59
A Kid	Come	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:35
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Robots in the Cellar	Space and Time	04:06
Salty Seamen	Rings Around Uranus	In The Groove At Last	02:18
Philip Rambow	A Star (In Her Own Right)	Jungle Law	03:31
Corsage	Big Bang	ST	03:42
Motive	Don’t You Know	Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)	03:21
Numbers	Out to You	Add Up	02:27
Breeding Ground	In the Sun	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:22
45's	On the Beach	On the Beach	04:05
Glamorcult	Lonely Faces	The Stone Sessions	03:12
Neon	Second Wind	ST (EP)	02:52
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Midnite News	08:11
Zipper	Slowtown Rats	Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll) b/w Slowtown Rats	02:51
Glamorcult	Innocense of Yesterday	Early Glamour	04:21
Popular Front (1)	This is the Rubicon	This is the Rubicon	04:59
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	02:04
e	Prime Cuts	Prime Cuts	03:37
Pukka Orchestra	A Wonderful Time to be Young	ST	03:07
Klō	Break the Floor	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	03:34
Fictions	Shuffle	ST	02:39
Tenants	How Do You Sleep at Night?	ST	04:34
Vital Sines	Climbing the Air	Big Dark Dreams	03:09
Degrees of Freedom	Risk	China	03:46
Government	Gunshot Wound	Electric Eye	02:56
Hypno-Gogo	Flashing	In Your Eyes b/w Flashing	04:49
Rex Chainbelt	Test Tube Baby	Foreign Movie	01:53
Frigidaires	5 Guys Named Moe	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:14
Modernes Pickles	Colors	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:18
Compilation	Direktive 17 - Mr. Jones	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:38
Images In Vogue	Travel	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:20
Popular Front	Puppet Man	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	03:17
Klō	Dreaming	Demo 1982	03:54
Within Gothic Towers	Day Dreaming	Within Gothic Towers	03:14
Spoons	When Time Turns Around	Vertigo Tango	03:40
Moev	Ophelia	Dusk and Desire	03:59
Channel Five	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
Psyche	Salvation Stranger	The Influence	03:54
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Someone Should Have Told Me (Behind Black Gloves)	Space and Time	04:39
Within Gothic Towers	In My Hour Of Despair	Within Gothic Towers	04:37
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower & the Hippies	ST (EP)	02:29
Compilation	Hygiene Club - Interview	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	06:10
Drastic Measures	Hotsy Totsy - Postlude	ST	04:25
Handful of Snowdrops	No More Lies (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:38
Government	Portrait	How Many Fingers?	02:36
BB Gabor	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry)	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	02:41
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - I Wanna Be In Commercials	Toronto Calling	02:38
Jon Mullane	Destiny	Following Yesterday	04:45
Within Gothic Towers	Will I Hope To Love	Within Gothic Towers	05:44
Pukka Orchestra	Goldmine in the Sky	The Palace Of Memeory	03:58
Scott Matthews	Viewing Nonevents	Boats in Rivers	03:56
Drama	Come On Over	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	02:57
Maja Bannerman	Black Sheep	Songs by Maja Bannerman	03:00
Lorne Ranger	I Want to be a Doorman	I Want to be a Doorman	04:02
Glamorcult	Thing Of Beauty	The Stone Sessions	03:57
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Your Face	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:16
Rational Youth	Cité phosphore	Cité phosphoree b/w Le meilleur des mondes	04:05
Regulators	That´s Right Nothing's Left	What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)	02:53
Oui	People Talk	Oui	03:50
Kinetic Ideals	Fade Away	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	07:44
Martha And The Muffins	Casualties of Glass	This Is The Ice Age	05:17
Glamorcult	Dream Girl (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	03:43
Salty Seamen	Lime Green Blues	In The Groove At Last	02:29
Modern Minds	Confidential (Modernettes)	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:58

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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The Keys - Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)

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Maja Bannerman - Songs by Maja Bannerman

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Blue Oil - Blue Oil (1981-83)

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Blue Oil - ST

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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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The Chemicals - Break Time

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The Chemicals - Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide

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Vex - DNA

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Tim Ray - History Lessons 1978-1984

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Popular Front - Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious

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Popular Front - Doomsday Army b/w Puppet

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Klō - No Money b/w The Parking Lot Song

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Klō - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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Klō - Fun b/w Weirdo

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Spoons - Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party

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Spoons - New Day New World

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Spoons - Static In Transmission

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Spoons - Vertigo Tango

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Spoons - Bridges Over Borders

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Spoons - Talkback

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Spoons - Nova Heart b/w Symmetry

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Spoons - Arias & Symphonies

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Spoons - Stick Figure Neighbourhood

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Tim Ray - ST

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Voice - Anno Di Voce

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Hygiene Club - Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary

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