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
FM109	L'ecole est fuckee	ST	04:19
Glamorcult	Time Will Pass On By	Shadows From The Past	04:38
Compilation	Don Bregg - Sounds So Nice	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:51
Glamorcult	Forever Strangers	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	03:35
Scenics	Do the Wait	Underneath the Door	02:13
Volts	Words on the Wind	Plugged In	02:48
Rational Youth	The Man in Grey	ST (mini album)	03:19
Blue Peter	Time and Money	Test Patterns For Living	02:07
Modernes Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:44
Diodes	Tennis Again (Sept. 1977 Toronto Sound Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	03:12
A Neon Rome	Bsus5	A Neon Rome	08:25
Tenants	Winner	ST	03:21
Nevermen	Living in the Past	The Monitor LP	04:17
Spoons	Blow Away	Arias & Symphonies	05:59
Age of Mirrors	Wave About Her	Mirage	04:33
Martha And The Muffins	Walking Into Walls	Danseparc	02:57
Spoons	Nova Heart	Arias & Symphonies	05:46
Entrance System	Can't Deny the Rain	Imperfect Image	06:18
Me And the Mosquitos	Valium	Go Away b/w Valium	03:03
39 Steps	A Taste of Poison [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:35
Government	Fumigators	Electric Eye	04:27
I Braineater	Wrong World	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:46
Philip Rambow	Jessica	Jungle Law	04:00
Glamorcult	Would It Be Over	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:28
Melinite	Waiting 4-U	Push The Button And Run!	01:48
Martha And The Muffins	Three Hundred Years - Chemistry	This Is The Ice Age	07:09
Eight Seconds	Zoe	Almacantar	04:54
Cannon Heath Down	Light Your Eyes	Heart-Throb Companion	03:06
Eight Seconds	Beyond the Shock	Big Houses	05:34
Rikki & The Rokkits	They Never See	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:23
Teasers	I Love You	Love Me Like You Did Last Night b/w I Love You	02:08
Secret Act	Fred Flinstone, Where Are You	My Neighbourhood	03:52
Doppler Bros.	Leaving Home	Totally Impractical	02:21
Volts	As the Radio Died	Plugged In	03:35
Rob Bryanton	Another Day, Another Show	Alcohol And Other Drugs	03:15
Popular Front (1)	We One	This is the Rubicon	04:59
Strange Advance	Hold On to the Nite	Worlds Away	04:34
Images In Vogue	Talking to Myself	In The House	03:44
Moev	Alibis	Dusk and Desire	04:37
Age of Mirrors	Don't Let Your Love Slip Away	Screenplay	03:54
Einstein	Body & Mind	Sex and Science	03:49
Psyche	Children Carry Knives	Insomnia Theatre	04:46
Neurons	New Location	Midnight Meetings b/w New Location	00:07
Drama	Electronic Pink Panther	Loneliness	02:23
Aircuts	Radioactivity	Radioactivity b/w Sheila	02:57
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Age of Mirrors	The Day the Earth Stands Still - Breathless	Mirage	05:44
Insex	One	One (EP)	04:47
Tenants	Death of Innocence	Visions of Our Future	03:39
Vis-A-Vis	I am the Night	Heart and Soul	03:40
Cardboard Brains	Have You Seen The Boy In The Gutter With The Broken Mind?	Live At The Edge	02:05
Moev	Remembrance Day	Zimmerkampf	05:23
FM109	Mirror Man	ST	03:17
Benjamin Russell	Pop Modern(e)	Pop Modern(e)	03:51
Images In Vogue	For Germans	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:39
Ohm & the Secret Sources	City of the Shadow	Space and Time	03:57
Rave Revues	Everyone’s a Critic	Voices	06:45
Cannon Heath Down	Julia Rainbow	Heart-Throb Companion	04:31
39 Steps	I'll Take the Blame	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:25
Start	Stereo	Hey You	03:16
K	A Thousand Years	Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)	04:13
The Front	Underworld	Underworld	03:59
Handful of Snowdrops	What You Want	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:30
BB Gabor	Moscow Drug Club	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Moscow Drug Club (picture sleeve)	04:26
Hot Tip	My Shoes	Stop All Motion	03:52
Cottage Industry	Leader	The Winter's Tale	03:37
NEO A4	Time for Me Now	ST	04:42
Corsage	Myself and You (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:00
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Drugs	Ohama aka The White Album	04:36
Sex Church	Dull Light	Growing Over	03:42
The Front	Looking For You	Gina's at a Party	04:32
Taro	Driftin Away	The Line Is Fine b/w Driftin Away (picture sleeve)	03:20
Salty Seamen	One Chance Left	In The Groove At Last	02:33
Braineaters	Wrong World	Planet X	02:35
Start	In Passion	Hey You	03:24
Eight Seconds	Kiss You (When It's Dangerous)	Almacantar	04:07
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Velveteens	Moonwork	Tall House (EP)	03:50
Blue Peter	Living in the Eighties	Test Patterns For Living	02:26
Salty Seamen	Star Train	In The Groove At Last	04:01
Extras	Zambando	The Road to Zambando	04:17
Villains	Wendy's Melody	Go Crazy	03:47
Kings	Love Store	Are Here	03:28
Tulpa	Apologize to Your Mother	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	04:29
I Braineater	Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6)	I Here, Where You	09:19
I Braineater	Davie Street	I Here, Where You	02:54
The Front	Robbery	Underworld	04:21
Melinite	When You Turn Again	Push The Button And Run!	03:12
Martha And The Muffins	Symptomatic Love	Trance and Dance	04:08
Moral Support	Heart of Gold	Insanity	03:40
Scenics	One Comes Closer	Underneath the Door	03:18
Neon	Til Midnight	ST (EP)	03:23
Rheostatics	Satellite Dancing	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:31
Rex Chainbelt	Run Away	Foreign Movie	02:43
Scenics	Bubbles	Underneath the Door	02:26
Images In Vogue	S&M	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:53
Benjamin Russell	Where Do We Belong?	Madman	02:07
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Exit From a Dream	04:54
Bumpers	Ian	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	03:26
Cannon Heath Down	ma-de-moi-selle	Heart-Throb Companion	03:15

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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