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
Images In Vogue	Travel	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	05:34
Scenics	Garthuson	New Part In Town	02:16
Aircuts	Radioactivity	Radioactivity b/w Sheila	02:57
Modern Minds	Happy	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:11
Klō	Try	Demo 1981	04:22
Glamorcult	After the Battle	Early Glamour	03:12
Rarefaction	Ordinary Man	Ordinary Man	04:17
Kaméléon	Caravane (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	03:32
True Confessions	Smokey's Gonna Twist	ST	02:25
Thieves	Color	I See Red	04:09
Cottage Industry	Leader	The Winter's Tale	03:37
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Time Twins	Say Uncle	Yuri Song b/w Say Uncle (picture sleeve)	04:16
Blue Oil	Far Too Much	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:52
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	01:57
Darkroom	Some Stories Never Change	San Paku	05:24
Scenics	O Charlotte	New Part In Town	03:44
Contradance	Trouble in the Darkness	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	05:53
Rivals	I'll Just Let You Go	I'll Just Let You Go b/w I Don't Believe in Ghoulies	03:32
Extras	Mega Media Myth	The Road to Zambando	04:47
Martha And The Muffins	Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing	Danseparc	05:53
Strange Advance	Love Games	Worlds Away	03:51
Government	I'm Somebody	Electric Eye	01:36
NEO A4	Sex (For Love)	The Warmer Side of You	02:39
Philip Rambow	Jungle Law	Jungle Law	03:15
Moev	Cracked Mirror	Cracked Mirror (EP)	05:57
Glamorcult	Live for Today	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	03:34
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Mr. Cocteau's Holiday	ST	02:17
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls b/w Seven Men	05:12
Numbers	Mr. Dempster	Add Up	03:49
Spoons	B Movie	Static In Transmission	04:34
Palace at 4 a.m.	Palace at 4 A.M.	Untamed World	01:25
Modernes Pickles	Sex in America	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:43
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Drama	Feable	Loneliness	03:42
ACTORS	How Deep is the Hole	Reanimated	04:00
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:41
Start	Bad Girl	Hey You	03:53
The Diodes	Hot Sand (1981 Remixed Version 2017)	Rarities	03:18
Tenants	Losing Youth	Visions of Our Future	03:25
Pointed Sticks	Out of Luck	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:32
Modernes Pickles	I'm in Love with the Super Friends	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:42
Tim Ray	Preamble - One Last Look (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	06:21
Modernes Pickles	Bonjour de Bob	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:01
Handful of Snowdrops	Terroir I	Land of the Damned	02:41
Spoons	Closing Credits	Static In Transmission	04:31
Compilation	Arrows - Come On Up	Toronto Calling	02:57
Glamorcult	The Light We Will Hold	A Price To Paris	04:23
Glen Meadmore	Going to Town	Chicken & Biscuits	05:09
Images In Vogue	Grapevine	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:55
Graphics	Our Planet Ocean	Sleepdancer b/w Our Planet Ocean	03:17
Numbers	Sunday Afternoon	Add Up	03:39
The Diodes	Lost in the Dark	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
Motive	Don’t You Know	Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)	03:21
Rob Bryanton	Gimme a Beer!	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:22
Rational Youth	City of Night	Cold War Nightlife	04:02
Modernes Pickles	I Want More Slack	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:31
DeMars	Véhiculation humaine	Les Télé-Têtes	04:54
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Exit From a Dream	04:33
ACTORS	Like Suicide	Acts of Worship	03:44
NEO A4	Standing	ST	03:50
Compilation	Glamatron - Klüb	The Circuit	02:28
Hypno-Gogo	Flashing	In Your Eyes b/w Flashing	04:49
Contradance	She's Got an Eyepiece	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	04:19
Scenics	I Killed Marx	Underneath the Door	04:29
A Fish in C	Touch	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
Handful of Snowdrops	The Scariest Notion (1st Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:08
Wrestlers	G.T.O.	ST	03:32
Images In Vogue	In the House (Single Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	03:14
Glamorcult	Dream Girl (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	03:43
Spice	Just a Little Bit	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	02:17
Figures At Dawn	Bridges Burning	ST	03:36
Glamatron	Passport (Instrumental)	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:30
NEO A4	Desire	The Warmer Side of You	04:02
ACTORS	Jacknife	Reanimated	04:24
Government	On the Prowl	Electric Eye	04:39
The Chemicals	Out of My Mind	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	03:11
Villains	Boogie Man	Go Crazy	04:24
Images In Vogue	Foreign Affairs	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:59
Martha And The Muffins	Motorbikin'	Trance and Dance	02:58
DeMars	Torn to Pieces	Stories from between the Walls	03:35
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	03:56
Andrew Matheson	Can't Stop the Angels	Monterey Shoes	06:57
Timothy Chipman	Ghost Parade	Ghost Parade	02:25
Eight Seconds	Beyond the Shock	Big Houses	05:34
Compilation	The Sturm Group - Upon a Nerve (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:34
e	Kunst Kopf	Prime Cuts	01:55
Entrance System	No Relative	Imperfect Image	03:19
Bitter Reality	A White Man (In Babylon)	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:40
Rex Chainbelt	Test Tube Baby	Foreign Movie	01:53
Catherine	Operating System	Operating System b/w Operating System	03:03
Entrance System	Swoon	Imperfect Image	04:05
Handful of Snowdrops	Voices in the Night	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:41
Salty Seamen	I'm Done	In The Groove At Last	03:50
D.A.R.Y.L.	Time 2 Start Again	Time 2 Start Again b/w Time 2 Start Again (Garage Mix)	04:35
Glamatron	Facial Saviour	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	05:02
Rob Bryanton	Everybody Feels Some Pain	Alcohol And Other Drugs	04:45
Age of Mirrors	The Day the Earth Stands Still - Breathless	Mirage	05:44
Modernes Pickles	Colors	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:09
Glamorcult	Session 2 (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	03:24

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever

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ACTORS - Part Time Punks Session EP

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ACTORS - Slaves (FM Attack RMX)

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ACTORS - Mining for Heart

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ACTORS - Acts of Worship

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ACTORS - One Hundred Years

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ACTORS - It Will Come to You

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ACTORS - Reanimated

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Bleu Néon - Cité Promise

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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Maurice & The Clichés - ST

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Maurice & The Clichés - Veronika

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Maurice & The Clichés - Soft Core

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Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

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Minutes From Downtown - ST

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Joe Naylor - I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights

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Modernes Pickles - Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985

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Modernes Pickles - We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White

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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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Rob Bryanton - Alcohol And Other Drugs

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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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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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