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
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Crusaders	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	03:49
Blue Oil	Twenty Years	ST	03:41
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:41
Absolute 9	The Gift	ST	03:03
Age of Mirrors	Don't Let Your Love Slip Away	Screenplay	03:54
Pukka Orchestra	Goldmine in the Sky	The Palace Of Memeory	03:58
Spoons	Love Can be a Stranger	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:32
Benjamin Russell	You Took Me for a Ride	Madman	02:44
Tribal Earth	Who You Are (In the Movies)	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	02:46
Images In Vogue	In the House	In The House	04:07
Bicycle Thieves	Picking Up Pens	ST	04:17
Bündock	Pris par le temps	Société Anonyme	03:23
Shock Culture	Haunted by Tokyo	ST (EP)	03:49
39 Steps	American Woman	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:11
Martha And The Muffins	Jets Seem Slower in London's Skies	This Is The Ice Age	02:36
Vital Sines	Erik the Generik	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:45
Instructions	OK	ST	03:53
Bumpers	Media Music	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:30
Scenics	Garthuson	New Part In Town	02:16
Braineaters	Kid Stuff	Planet X	01:33
Spoons	Love Recall	New Day New World	03:19
Glamorcult	She Doesn't Believe In The Magic	The Stone Sessions	03:57
Boys Brigade	Melody	ST	04:04
Popular Front (1)	This is the Rubicon	This is the Rubicon	04:59
NEO A4	Is She is She	ST	04:39
Handful of Snowdrops	Astronauts (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:31
Braineaters	Modern Man	Planet X	02:15
Bumpers	I Watch You Go	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:34
Compilation	Jenerentola - Lagata (Jenerentola)	Strange Pleasures EP	06:32
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Body of Vagrant Waves	I Fear What I Might Hear	08:36
Lou Champagne System	Another Dimension	No Visible Means	04:50
Psyche	Twilight	The Influence	04:31
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Upcoming Storm	Space and Time	03:38
John Lutz T.	Street Corner Sally	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	03:06
Modern Minds	Girl Crazy	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:22
The Idles	Foreign Son	The Idles Demo	03:53
Sex Church	Dull Light	Growing Over	03:42
3rd Man In	New Fast	New Fast b/w What to Believe (picture sleeve)	03:18
Compilation	Hunger Project - Assembly	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	05:41
This Fear	Soldier of This Fashion (Extended)	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:14
The Chemicals	Run and Hide	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	02:49
Null Set	Stripe	New Job (EP)	01:18
Bobby and Synthia	Video Violence	thirty-six hours (EP)	03:53
Kreemers	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo	03:14
John Young Paul	Summertime!	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:29
Escalators	Double Talk	ST	05:17
B-Sides	She's a Raver	Red to Black	02:36
I Braineater	Fade	I Here, Where You	03:35
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Hygiene Club	Girls at the Bank	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	02:05
Martha And The Muffins	This is the Ice Age	This Is The Ice Age	07:34
Micks	Money Talks	ST (EP)	02:24
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Now They've Landed (Harmonics)	Space and Time	05:01
Escalators	Here Comes That Girl Again	ST	03:05
Kaméléon	Pique-nique (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	02:22
Bunny & the Lakers	t.b. Farm (Kiss Me Now)	Numbers	01:27
Family Plot	Tic Tac	Convictions	04:08
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Dischordant Concensus	Midnite News	03:45
A Day in Paris	Too Tired	Prey	03:34
Government	Plaza del Pimps	How Many Fingers?	03:13
Glen Meadmore	Do Me Baby	Chicken & Biscuits	05:01
Spoons	Through the Hazy	Vertigo Tango	04:04
Hunger Project	The Same Inside	Demo 1982	07:07
B-Sides	She's a Raver (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:06
Benjamin Russell	Pop Modern(e)	Pop Modern(e)	03:51
Blue Oil	I Blow You a Kiss	ST	02:36
Norda	West Over Seas	West Over Seas	05:54
Hot Tip	Eyes Are Blue	Stop All Motion	03:19
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	So Far	04:04
Martha And The Muffins	Indecision	Metro Music	04:23
Strange Advance	Kiss in the Dark	Worlds Away	03:56
Blue Oil	Superficiel (ami d'esprit superficiel)	ST	03:41
Mettle	Evening Ocean	ST	02:58
Images In Vogue	Masks	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:56
Clooz	You Can Do	Leave Me Alone b/w You Can Do	03:02
A Neon Rome	Cums a Wolf	New Heroin	04:15
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Take Me Dancing	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	05:24
Kinetic Ideals	Angular Sky	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	06:57
Age of Mirrors	She Says Hello	Mirage	04:02
39 Steps	A Taste of Poison [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:35
Compilation	The Sharks - Get Off the Radio	No Pedestrians	03:00
100 Flowers	The Best Status Symbol	21st Guessing	02:54
Tenants	Let 'Em Go	Visions of Our Future	04:28
Odd Man Out	Whatever Happened to Us	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	04:02
The Play	Line of Fire	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:45
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Sister H. Immaculata	Spunker	02:12
Avril Chown	Losin’ Sight	American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight	03:53
Numbers	Sideways Elevator	Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it	03:09
Eight Seconds	Picture	Big Houses	06:13
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower and the Hippies	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:48
Annabelle's Room	Hopscotch	ST	04:41
Benjamin Russell	Angel of Mercy	Madman	02:45
Johnny Zhivago	Looking at You	Microalbum	04:28
Cardboard Brains	Is That Why?	Live At The Edge	03:28
Villains	Long, Short, Skinny Or Fat	Go Crazy	02:56
I Braineater	Edge	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:30
Channel Five	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
Compilation	Moist & Tender - Alienation	Toronto Calling	03:22
Bunny & the Lakers	Yalps From the Alpa	Numbers	02:35
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37

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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