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
State Of Mind	I'll Be Yours	I'll Be Yours b/w The Dark Side (picture sleeve)	03:29
Glamorcult	Would It Be Over	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:28
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Over Mountains	Ohama aka The White Album	03:14
Living End (1)	Anaesthesia Grin	ST	03:29
Insex	Play or Die	One (EP)	02:14
A Day in Paris	Child's Cry	Prey	03:45
Absolute 9	Stop Thinking	ST	03:14
Hush	Dancing in East Berlin	Replay	04:17
Inner Sanction	Mystery & Harmony	Shake Up - Fly Down	04:41
Compilation	Vera & The Poor Boys - Chameleon Girl	The Circuit	03:10
Tower Bridge	Perfection	Perfection b/w Out of My Mind Girl (picture sleeve)	04:07
Scenics	Do the Wait	Underneath the Door	02:13
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Space and Time	04:49
Diodes	That Was The Way That It Was	Action-Reaction	03:46
Bündock	Cowboy	Société Anonyme	03:46
Channel Five	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
Kaméléon	Smarties (1983)	Groupe électro-pop	04:54
Age of Mirrors	Civilian of Discipline	Mirage	04:47
Kaméléon	Insomnuit	ST	04:26
Martha And The Muffins	Primal Weekend	Trance and Dance	05:14
Fictions	Shuffle	ST	02:39
Compilation	Pat Grehan - Fury Girl	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:13
John Young Paul	Is That Why?	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:07
Austra	Beat and the Pulse	Feel it Break	04:55
Glamorcult	You Are in Love	A Price To Paris	04:07
Mannequin Depressives	Dissolve	Girls Are Evil	01:45
Class Info	I Want	Inside	05:22
Me And the Mosquitos	Valium	Go Away b/w Valium	03:03
Modernettes	Femme Fatale	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:53
Rarefaction	Open Up Your Heart	Ordinary Man	04:12
Cottage Industry	Kulturkreise	The Winter's Tale	03:02
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Love in 3-D	Space and Time	03:36
Rex Chainbelt	Test Tube Baby	Foreign Movie	01:53
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News III	Midnite News	04:25
The Edge	Go Away	Release the Circle	03:11
Einstein	Fire of My Loins	Sex and Science	04:48
Nevermen	Real Life	The Monitor LP	05:10
Deserters	Innervisions	ST	03:34
Andrew Matheson	Johnny Lets Run	Monterey Shoes	03:49
The Play	Line of Fire	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:45
Ceramic Hello	Conversation Between Units	The Absence of a Canary	00:30
Living End (1)	Dislocation	ST	03:16
Spoons	Friends in the Media	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:31
Jon Mullane	Destiny	Following Yesterday	04:45
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind (OHMix)	Space and Time	04:55
James Harcourt	Moment of Madness	Emotional Blackmail	03:03
Drastic Measures	Romanticon	ST	02:42
Diodes	Catwalker	Action-Reaction	03:29
Streetcar Named Desire	A Month of Sundays	Life Begins	04:36
B-Sides	Run and Hide	Red to Black	03:40
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Dead Dogs	Spunker	02:32
Cardboard Brains	Have You Seen The Boy In The Gutter With The Broken Mind?	Live At The Edge	02:05
Catherine	Operating System	Operating System b/w Operating System	03:04
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Thin Lines	Midway b/w Thin Lines	05:53
John Bell and the Strange	Melissa	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	06:50
Einstein	Truck-Stop Girls	Sex and Science	03:24
James Harcourt	You Make My Thing Ping	Emotional Blackmail	02:48
Volts	While You Can	Plugged In	03:41
Secret Act	My Neighbourhood	My Neighbourhood	05:51
Bündock	Never Trust	Société Anonyme	04:59
Glamorcult	Cocktail Conversations	A Price To Paris	04:32
Degrees of Freedom	The Sound of a Jealous Heart	China	03:36
Family Plot	Swagger	Convictions	03:12
Salty Seamen	Star Train	In The Groove At Last	04:01
Design	Sayonara (remix)	No Turning Back	04:10
Billy Butt & The Brats	Surveillance	Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No	03:21
UJ3RK5	The Locator	ST (EP)	03:11
Compilation	Jennifer Cauley - In Every Dream	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:45
Eight Seconds	Beyond the Shock	Big Houses	05:34
Tenants	How Do You Sleep at Night?	ST	04:34
Pale Blue	Therapy	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:53
Tyro	A Little More Time	A Little More Time (EP)	02:11
Decade of Dreams	One Night in Bohemia	Wild Colloquial	03:50
Compilation	Rent Boys Inc. - Fetish (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:45
Timothy Chipman	Joy to the World	Ghost Parade	01:32
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Villains	Laugh it Out	Go Crazy	03:54
Compilation	Arrows - Come On Up	Toronto Calling	02:57
Tame & Talking	The Hole	ST	03:11
A Day in Paris	cAn'T lOoK aWaY	Rhymes On Vinyl	04:03
Golden Calgarians	It's OK	Savage Love	03:13
Martha And The Muffins	Walking Into Walls	Danseparc	02:57
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Stop	Spunker	02:57
I Braineater	Canada	Artist, Poet, Thief	02:23
Awake The Echoes	Sherry	Normal Life	04:20
Start	In Passion	Hey You	03:24
Reasons	Take Me Back	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:01
Johnny Faith	Beatown	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	03:24
NEO A4	Home	The Warmer Side of You	02:53
Handful of Snowdrops	Shadows on the Heart	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:33
Drastic Measures	See My House	ST	02:46
Rin Tin Tin	Jackin' the House of Commons	Give Meech a Chance // Jackin' the House of Commons	08:26
e	Reaction	Reaction b/w Coincidence	03:06
Rarefaction	I Dreamt	Ordinary Man	04:18
Martha And The Muffins	Sinking Land	Metro Music	05:28
I Braineater	1980 More	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:57
Handful of Snowdrops	Spiral Dive (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	02:36
A Fish in C	Touch	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
Glamorcult	I Will Still Be There	The Stone Sessions	04:05
Handful of Snowdrops	Counterclockwise (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:30

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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