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
Start	Out of the Tube	Hey You	02:27
Eight Seconds	Thorn in My Side	Big Houses	04:08
Kaméléon	Les chats balerines (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:01
Modernettes	No Tears	Gone..But Not Forgiven	03:37
Psyche	Salvation Stranger	The Influence	03:54
Timothy Chipman	Strange Days	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:48
Eight Seconds	Tell Diane	Big Houses	04:45
Mama Quilla II	KKK	ST (EP)	05:40
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:14
Calling Rain	Laid in Ruins	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	04:45
Jon Mullane	One Turns Love Around	Following Yesterday	03:57
Men Without Hats	Modern Dancing	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:29
Secret Act	Our Little Secret	My Neighbourhood	04:36
The Front	Hit and Run	Underworld	04:14
Philip Rambow	Snakes And Ladders	Jungle Law	03:52
Family Plot	Old Refrain	Convictions	04:09
Einstein	Truck-Stop Girls	Sex and Science	03:24
Inner Sanction	Direction Perfection	Dancematic-Automatic	04:32
Age of Mirrors	Somewhere in Arabia	Screenplay	03:37
Todd Stevens	This Way!	This Way! (picture sleeve)	03:20
I Braineater	Funtime	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:24
Quasi Hands	Oil Barons	ST	03:49
Rational Youth	Cité phosphore	Cité phosphoree b/w Le meilleur des mondes	04:05
Scenics	O Charlotte	New Part In Town	03:44
Modern Minds	The Fear Begins	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:48
Images In Vogue	Fade Away	Educated Man	03:31
Entrance System	Imperfect Image	Imperfect Image	03:38
Hot Tip	Bridge to Manhattan	Stop All Motion	03:05
Psyche	The Brain Collapses	Insomnia Theatre	04:09
Compilation	Conditioned Response - Are You Responding	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:28
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Men Without Hats	Ideas for Walls	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:27
Barking Boys	Incident In St. Jamestown	The Yes Girls	04:58
Bunny & the Lakers	Weekend Guests	Numbers	01:57
Faded Films	The Top	Faded Years	02:43
Benjamin Russell	Boffo	Madman	02:12
Glamorcult	Live for Today	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	03:34
Compilation	Winston Hancock - Girls, Girls	No Pedestrians	03:15
Martha And The Muffins	Sinking Land	Metro Music	05:28
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News	Midnite News	03:15
Scenics	In the Summer	Underneath the Door	03:53
UJ3RK5	Marnie	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:32
Benjamin Russell	Power of Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:37
Spoons	Annita	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:21
Velveteens	Tall House	Tall House (EP)	03:05
Family Plot	Dervish	Convictions	04:11
The Scene (2)	Come of Age	Only in Paradise	05:36
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	04:27
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:12
The Presence	Mechanoid	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	03:55
Extras	Aqua Velva Man	Bit Parts	02:49
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Open Window	Midnite News	03:33
Drama	As I Breathe On The T.T.C.	Loneliness	04:04
Volts	Dirty Money	Plugged In	02:59
Kaméléon	Genocide genethliaque	ST	04:03
Handful of Snowdrops	Immortals (1985)	Mort en direct	08:24
Lawn	Beluger	Peace in the Valley	03:46
Rolf Kempf	Bye Bye Baby	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:36
Strange Advance	Kiss in the Dark	Worlds Away	03:56
Martha And The Muffins	Sins of Children	Danseparc	05:37
Psyche	Psychic Vampire	Insomnia Theatre	02:55
The Hurt	Engaged	Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)	03:11
Compilation	Direktive 17 - Mr. Jones	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:38
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
e	Reaction	Reaction b/w Coincidence	03:06
Start	Bad Girl	Hey You	03:53
Keys	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)	03:16
Government	On the Prowl	Electric Eye	04:39
Images In Vogue	One Way Heart	In The House	03:30
Iko	Approach on Tokyo	83	05:15
Glamorcult	Innocense of Yesterday	Early Glamour	04:21
DeMars	La nouvelle epoque	Les Télé-Têtes	04:01
Diodes	Nowhere Fast (Aug 1977 Crash 'N' Burn Demo)	Rarities	02:50
Kreemers	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo	03:14
45's	Say You'll Be Mine	On the Beach	03:15
Kinetic Ideals	Structures	Reason (EP)	04:47
Martha And The Muffins	Three Hundred Years - Chemistry	This Is The Ice Age	07:09
NEO A4	Home	The Warmer Side of You	02:53
Handful of Snowdrops	Trust	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	04:24
Velveteens	Moonwork	Tall House (EP)	03:50
James Harcourt	It's a Matter of Time	Emotional Blackmail	02:24
UJ3RK5	Hands of Orlac	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:36
Térapi	Lève-toi!	Primale	02:13
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
I Braineater	Fade	I Here, Where You	03:35
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Shadow Love	Space and Time	04:38
Diodes	Everything I Am	Action-Reaction	03:15
Villains	Long, Short, Skinny Or Fat	Go Crazy	02:56
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	A Neon Rome	05:20
Age of Mirrors	Civilian of Discipline	Mirage	04:47
James Harcourt	Emotional Blackmail	Emotional Blackmail	02:21
Melinite	Seasoning	Push The Button And Run!	01:23
Cardboard Brains	The Monster in Ed	Live At The Edge	03:26
Ear Candy	Part of Me	Self Defence	04:34
Braineaters	Johnny	Planet X	06:03
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Take Me Dancing	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	05:24
Secret Act	Fred Flinstone, Where Are You	My Neighbourhood	03:52
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cold War Nightlife	03:14
Hot Tip	Never Look Back	Stop All Motion	03:25
Psyche	Lord Unleashed	Unveiling The Secret	03:22

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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