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
Mannequin Depressives	Erase It	Girls Are Evil	04:58
David Raven & the Escorts	Dance Dance Dance	David Raven And The Escorts	02:22
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Timeless Thoughts (To the Stars)	Space and Time	04:54
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cold War Nightlife	03:14
Pukka Orchestra	The Deserter	ST	00:50
Fictions	Do it With the Lights On	ST	03:07
Rave Revues	Everyone’s a Critic	Voices	06:45
39 Steps	Something New	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:03
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Stand	Spunker	02:36
Hunger Project	Poland	Demo 1982	05:40
Rolf Kempf	Bye Bye Baby	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:36
Barking Boys	High Life - Low Life	The Yes Girls	02:46
Mannequin Depressives	Dissolve	Girls Are Evil	01:45
Rarefaction	Open Up Your Heart	Ordinary Man	04:12
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
Timothy Chipman	Strange Days	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:48
Moral Lepers	Suicide	Turn to Stone	02:06
The Voxx	Flower Boy	Flower Boy b/w Flower Boy DVB	03:01
Family Plot	Dervish	Convictions	04:11
Hot Tip	Bridge to Manhattan	Stop All Motion	03:05
Hypno-Gogo	In Your Eyes	In Your Eyes b/w Flashing	03:04
B-Sides	Much Too Serious	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	02:44
Buddy King & the Motion!	I Didn't Know Her	Schoolgirl Alibis b/w I Didn't Know Her	02:14
Kultur	Altar	Kultur	03:59
Diodes	That Was The Way That It Was	Action-Reaction	03:46
Cardboard Brains	Babies Run My World	Live At The Edge	02:07
Palace at 4 a.m.	Palace at 4 A.M.	Untamed World	01:25
A Day in Paris	Child's Cry	Prey	03:45
Kinetic Ideals	I Remember	Touch Me (Now)	05:10
Barking Boys	Incident In St. Jamestown	The Yes Girls	04:58
UJ3RK5	Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	06:32
Modernes Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:44
Kinetic Ideals	Maze of Ways	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	04:09
Psyche	Maggots	Insomnia Theatre	04:27
Nevermen	Real Life	The Monitor LP	05:10
Bruce PM	More Joyful Noise	Makeshift	03:31
I Braineater	I Here Where You	I Here, Where You	02:51
Barking Boys	Here She Comes	The Yes Girls	03:55
Diodes	Nowhere Fast (Aug 1977 Crash 'N' Burn Demo)	Rarities	02:50
Images In Vogue	In the House (Extended Dance Remix)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	08:25
Glamorcult	Would it be Over	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	03:29
Joe Naylor	I Hate Fluorescent Lights	I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights	03:18
Moev	In Your Head	Zimmerkampf	04:35
NEO A4	Desire	The Warmer Side of You	04:02
Psyche	Nocturnal Passenger	Mystery Hotel	06:07
Moev	Sweet Nothings	Dusk and Desire	04:33
Andrew Matheson	Tender is the Night	Monterey Shoes	05:51
45's	Say You'll Be Mine	On the Beach	03:15
State Of Mind	The Dark Side	I'll Be Yours b/w The Dark Side (picture sleeve)	03:45
Iko	Communication Off	83	04:34
Boys Brigade	Saigon	Mannequin Demo	05:02
Tin Twist	Stupid Cars	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	01:37
Rational Youth	Heredity	Heredity	04:18
Living End (1)	Naive	ST	02:25
John Young Paul	The Boulevards of Hope	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:37
Tame & Talking	Fashion Fit	ST	04:08
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Lindsay	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:11
Martha And The Muffins	Three Hundred Years - Chemistry	This Is The Ice Age	07:09
Awake The Echoes	Sherry	Normal Life	04:20
Martha And The Muffins	Motorbikin'	Trance and Dance	02:58
B-Sides	Invasion of the Money Snatchers	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	03:19
Vis-A-Vis	Prison of Eyes	Heart and Soul	04:50
Kaméléon	Omnibus Cactus	ST	02:48
Wrestlers	Dance of the Drunk	ST	02:37
Land of Giants	Cannibal Dolls	Cannibal Dolls b/w Seven Men	03:32
Welcome Home	Top of the World	In This Life b/w Top of the World (picture sleeve)	04:02
Salt And the Choppers	I And You	I And You b/w Flounder (picture sleeve)	02:41
Glamatron	The Word (Death In September)	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:24
Secret Act	Talk Talk!	My Neighbourhood	02:55
Rave Revues	Nightmares	Voices	03:36
Family Plot	Tic Tac	Convictions	04:08
The Front	The Moon Is a Stranger	Underworld	03:12
Compilation	Youth Youth Youth - Wanderlust	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	01:58
Rex Chainbelt	Foreign Movie	Foreign Movie	02:42
Moral Support	Living With Passion	Insanity	03:35
Spunker (aka Neotone)	I'm in the Stars For You	Spunker	04:36
Bobby and Synthia	The Music Stopped	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:36
Strange Advance	Worlds Away	Worlds Away	07:00
Dancespeak	Heart of My Song	Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)	03:49
The Edge	Go Away	Release the Circle	03:11
Handful of Snowdrops	Immortals (1985)	Mort en direct	08:24
Entrance System	Imperfect Image	Imperfect Image	03:38
Living End (1)	In Your Dreams	ST	02:48
Handful of Snowdrops	Shadows on the Heart	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:33
Drastic Measures	T.N.T.	ST	03:51
Eight Seconds	Where's Bula	Almacantar	04:38
Fictions	Shuffle	ST	02:39
Klō	Baby Wants a Baby	Demo 1981	04:18
Glamatron	Facial Saviour	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	05:02
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Images In Vogue	Talking to Myself	In The House	03:44
Lunasam	Redhead	Redhead	03:52
The Idles	Slow Down	The Idles Demo	02:18
Me And the Mosquitos	Valium	Go Away b/w Valium	03:03
IQ	Sixth World	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:59
Benjamin Russell	Power of Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:37
Compilation	Instructions - Tell-A-Photo	The Circuit	04:42
John Young Paul	Our Time Escapes	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:09
Nex'd	Surreal	Surreal (EP)	05:45
Extras	I’ll be Wanting You	The Road to Zambando	04:15

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Avril Chown - American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight

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Kultur - Kultur

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The Idles - The Idles Demo

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Hunger Project - Demo 1982

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Hunger Project - The Same Inside b/w Assembly

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Boys Brigade - Interview with Boys Brigade and Producer Geddy Lee

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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Voice - Anno Di Voce

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Klō - Demo 1981

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Klō - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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Klō - Demo 1982

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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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