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
Moev	Rotting Geraniums	Zimmerkampf	04:51
Compilation	Arrows - Treat Her Right	Toronto Calling	02:52
Handful of Snowdrops	The Ghost of a Song	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:44
Kinetic Ideals	Absurdity	Reason (EP)	05:23
Handful of Snowdrops	Terroir I	Land of the Damned	02:41
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Where Do You Call Home?	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:46
Tim Ray	D-Scratch	ST	02:04
Friendly Fire	Beverly Blue	Junior Senility EP	03:52
Rarefaction	Abstract Minds	Abstract Minds b/w I Dreamt (picture sleeve)	04:10
Sebastian (Agnello)	No Compromise	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:34
Motive	Don’t You Know	Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)	03:21
Corsage	City Sleeps	ST	04:17
Pukka Orchestra	Spies of the Heart	ST	02:50
Mettle	The Invisibles	ST	03:14
3rd Man In	What to Believe	New Fast b/w What to Believe (picture sleeve)	03:43
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:12
Strange Advance	She Controls Me	Worlds Away	02:59
Compilation	Vera & The Poor Boys - Chameleon Girl	The Circuit	03:10
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
Moev	Common House	Zimmerkampf	03:27
BAMFF	Mini Crisis	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:35
Villains	Wendy's Melody	Go Crazy	03:47
Scenics	New Part in Town	New Part In Town	03:31
The Front	The Joke Was On Me	Gina's at a Party	04:03
K	Sliding In	Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)	03:11
Tenants	Look the Other Way	ST	03:25
Benjamin Russell	Broken-Hearted Lovers	Madman	02:30
Spoons	Walk Across the Water	Bridges Over Borders	04:44
Martha And The Muffins	Teddy the Dink	Trance and Dance	03:29
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired (Live On Open Mike With Mike Bullard, Jan. 22 1999)	Rarities	03:51
Emport	Picture Frame Love Affair	Heartaches b/w Picture Frame Love Affair	04:19
True Confessions	Yes it's True	ST	03:03
Rolf Kempf	Bye Bye Baby	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:36
Direktive 17	Run With Me	ST (EP)	04:35
Streetcar Named Desire	Someday Your Ship Will Come (Dance Mix)	Life Begins	04:17
Cardboard Brains	Caesar Drives a Fast Car	Live At The Edge	03:06
Cöld Wår	Do You Notice Me	Do You Notice Me b/w Klub Haus (picture sleeve)	03:31
Glamorcult	Past Glory (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	04:32
Moral Support	Closer to You	Insanity	03:19
Tulpa	Mystical Dreams	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	03:36
Secret Act	Northern Spy	My Neighbourhood	03:31
British Properties	Niag'ra Falls	Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls	03:26
Tribal Earth	Who You Are (In the Movies)	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	02:46
Jon Mullane	The Distant Light	Following Yesterday	04:05
Moral Support	Insanity	Insanity	04:33
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Don't Wanna Hear This Song	Spunker	02:16
John Bell and the Strange	Melissa	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	06:50
Glamorcult	Interlude	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:30
Awake The Echoes	Turn That Bloody Noise Down	Normal Life	03:15
Aircuts	Sheila	Radioactivity b/w Sheila	03:22
Jon Mullane	With You	Following Yesterday	03:59
Philip Rambow	The Manison on the Hill	Jungle Law	04:25
Entrance System	Swoon	Imperfect Image	04:05
Glamorcult	Mine is the Maiden	Early Glamour	04:39
Within Gothic Towers	In The Darkness	Within Gothic Towers	04:38
Villains	Call Me Up	Go Crazy	03:00
John Young Paul	The Girl Spells Grief	The Life of Ermie Scub	01:38
Instructions	Suburban Dream	ST	04:15
Moral Lepers	Music is Your Body	Turn to Stone	02:45
Age of Mirrors	The Day the Earth Stands Still - Breathless	Mirage	05:44
Volts	Never Enough	Plugged In	03:03
Tau Ceti	Radiation	Radiation b/w Bathed in Dark Light	04:20
Border	Black and White	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:01
Figures At Dawn	Sons of the Century	ST	04:36
Handful of Snowdrops	Shadows on the Heart	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:33
Glamatron	Facial Saviour	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	05:02
Melinite	For Now	Push The Button And Run!	03:37
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Lou Champagne System	Machine Muzik	No Visible Means	04:20
Compilation	Diatribe - Air Radio	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	03:34
Government	On the Prowl	Electric Eye	04:39
Popular Front	Puppet	Doomsday Army b/w Puppet	03:17
Neon	Second Wind	ST (EP)	02:52
Psyche	Maggots	Insomnia Theatre	04:27
DeMars	Torn to Pieces	Songs From Between The Walls	03:35
Johnny Zhivago	New Things	Microalbum	03:19
Modernettes	No Tears	Gone..But Not Forgiven	03:37
Deserters	Present Life	ST	03:21
B-Sides	She's a Raver (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	01:34
Psyche	Illusion	The Influence	04:26
Compilation	Winston Hancock & The Changes - Love at First Sight	The Circuit	02:36
Billy Butt & The Brats	No I Can't Say No	Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No	02:47
Martha And The Muffins	Jets Seem Slower in London's Skies	This Is The Ice Age	02:36
Handful of Snowdrops	A New Light (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:19
Volts	These Things Remain	Plugged In	03:57
Lawn	Rites	Peace in the Valley	03:48
Glamorcult	I Will Still Be There	The Stone Sessions	04:05
Corsage	Down at the Rock	ST	03:26
Mettle	The Second Person	ST	03:47
NEO A4	If it Was You	ST	04:41
Faded Films	East of the Asylum	Faded Years	04:46
Drama	Traffic	Loneliness	02:53
Handful of Snowdrops	Godhood (1989)	Mort en direct	04:44
DeMars	Out of Sight	Songs From Between The Walls	05:25
Broken Tables	The Ruins	ST	05:50
Electric Mocean	Motion	Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)	04:03
Age of Mirrors	She Cracks Me Up	Screenplay	03:39
Joe Naylor	I Hate Fluorescent Lights	I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights	03:18
Spoons	Tidal Wave	Bridges Over Borders	03:55
Salt And the Choppers	I And You	I And You b/w Flounder (picture sleeve)	02:41

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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