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
Scenics	I'm Sad	New Part In Town	05:04
Compilation	Pat Grehan - Fury Girl	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:13
39 Steps	Someday is Today [original]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:33
Two Men Laughing	Dancing in Moscow	Imprisoned Lorri b/w Dancing in Moscow (picture sleeve)	02:53
Blue Oil	Unwind	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:35
Corsage	Jackson	ST	03:41
Glamorcult	Hope For Change To Come	Shadows From The Past	03:42
Spoons	The Opening Curtain	Vertigo Tango	04:21
Benjamin Russell	Teresa	Madman	04:15
Images In Vogue	Anxiety Reaction	Educated Man	04:05
Erect	The Colony	Consequence of Life	02:45
This Fear	Look Along The Edge	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:38
ACTORS	Face Meets Glass	It Will Come to You	03:36
Spoons	Words Will Smash Walls	Static In Transmission	04:29
Neurons	New Location	Midnight Meetings b/w New Location	00:07
NEO A4	Sex (For Love)	The Warmer Side of You	02:39
Austra	The Villain	Feel it Break	04:06
NEO A4	Is She is She	ST	04:39
Handful of Snowdrops	As Thought Outside but Looking In (Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:06
Erect	Action Reaction	Consequence of Life	02:57
I Braineater	Songs for the Masses	I Here, Where You	03:43
Lawn	Peace in the Valley	Peace in the Valley	03:37
Compilation	S.S. - Working Girl	No Pedestrians	03:09
UJ3RK5	Booty Dread	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	02:49
One Hand Clapping	Bad Pianos	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	01:26
Barking Boys	High Life - Low Life	The Yes Girls	02:46
Hygiene Club	Sea Monster	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	03:10
Velveteens	Tall House	Tall House (EP)	03:05
Psyche	Eating Violins	Insomnia Theatre	02:45
Breeding Ground	Happy Now I Know	Tales of Adventure (EP)	03:45
Moev	Sweet Nothings	Dusk and Desire	04:33
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	So Far	04:14
Spoons	Stop	Talkback	03:16
Oui	Pulling Me Closer	Oui	03:45
Deserters	Boys In Berlin	ST	03:42
Red Herring	Feelings	Taste Tests	02:21
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Now They've Landed (Harmonics)	Space and Time	05:01
Eight Seconds	Chopin's Heart	Big Houses	04:51
Oui	Intelligence	Oui	03:56
The Play	Line of Fire	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:45
Maurice & The Clichés	Show Me a Love	Veronika	03:00
Popular Front (1)	World Weary	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	04:54
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Taro	Driftin Away	The Line Is Fine b/w Driftin Away (picture sleeve)	03:20
Strange Advance	One Chance in a Million	Worlds Away	04:12
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	New Heroin	05:20
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:04
Calling Rain	Laid in Ruins	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	04:45
Age of Mirrors	Still Life in Radio	Screenplay	04:09
The Front	The Haunting (Jimmy Loves Mary-Ann)	Gina's at a Party	04:07
Oui	Fight Back	Oui	03:46
DeMars	Try... You Can't	Les Télé-Têtes	03:56
Martha And The Muffins	Trance and Dance	Trance and Dance	07:14
Popular Front	Puppet	Doomsday Army b/w Puppet	03:17
Big Dog	Monkey See, Monkey Do	99 Change Hands	01:52
Magic Dragon	(White Monkey) Under The Volcano	Emotional Landscape	07:16
Spoons	In the Hands of Money	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:43
The Front	Robbery	Underworld	04:21
The Diodes	No Time to Cry (1981 Previously Unreleased) (CD only)	Rarities	03:43
Nex'd	Flexible	Surreal (EP)	06:21
The Vox	Bored of the 80's	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	02:37
Magic Dragon	Once Upon a Time	Emotional Landscape	04:25
Darkroom	In Dim light	San Paku	03:34
Images In Vogue	King's Service	In The House	03:25
Extras	No Generation	Bit Parts	02:33
Eight Seconds	We Set Him Free	Big Houses	05:04
100 Flowers	He and She	21st Guessing	04:26
Rikki & The Rokkits	New Wave	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:10
Eight Seconds	No Picasso	Big Houses	05:04
ACTORS	We Don't Have to Dance	It Will Come to You	04:03
100 Flowers	Nothing is Hard	21st Guessing	04:31
Tenants	Never Forget a Face	Visions of Our Future	04:07
Instructions	Ha - Ha Ha	ST	04:29
Spoons	Star Maps	Static In Transmission	04:05
Lorne Ranger	I Want to be a Doorman	I Want to be a Doorman	04:02
Compilation	Tulpä - Apologize to Your Mother	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:06
The Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	01:57
The Idles	Slow Down	The Idles Demo	02:18
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Ross Angeles	She Knows	Salute	03:12
Compilation	Charles Kurt - The Silence Upstairs	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:11
Theo Vandenhoff	Eternity (Looking Skyward)	In The Throes Of Love	06:54
The Government	Following You (Reprise)	Electric Eye	02:15
Glamorcult	Shadows From The Past (Part 2)	Shadows From The Past	03:19
Boys Brigade	Shadows	Mannequin Demo	03:32
Austra	The Noise	Feel it Break	03:31
Glamorcult	Silent Reflection	A Price To Paris	03:59
Modernes Pickles	Teenage Dropout	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:20
Spoons	Trade Winds	Arias & Symphonies	02:15
I Braineater	Fade	I Here, Where You	03:35
Einstein	Man-Child	Sex and Science	03:38
Bicycle Thieves	Anita	ST	03:31
Living End (1)	Dislocation	ST	03:16
Kinetic Ideals	Fire	Reason (EP)	05:54
Compilation	Big Deal - Movie Star	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	04:36
Images In Vogue	She's a Garden	Educated Man	02:48
Rheostatics	My Generation	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:04
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Sister H. Immaculata	Spunker	02:12
Scenics	Do the Wait	Underneath the Door	02:13
DeMars	Véhiculation humaine	Les Télé-Têtes	04:54

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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James G. Thompson - Hand In Hand

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Sandro Durante - Durante

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Sandro Durante - Don't Go (Breaking My Heart) b/w All That Magic

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Glass Apple Bonzai - Love & Hatred in MegaWave City

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Eight Seconds - Big Houses

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Eight Seconds - Almacantar

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Theo Vandenhoff - Saviour on the Spilled Blood

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Theo Vandenhoff - In The Throes Of Love

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Theo Vandenhoff - Heartache Is An Empty Room

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Theo Vandenhoff - Alles Ist Besser

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Theo Vandenhoff - Collected EPs

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Theo Vandenhoff - Tenement

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Sound FX - Sound FX

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Hypno-Gogo - In Your Eyes b/w Flashing

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Mad Shadows - Music in the Night

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The Modern Minds - Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Space Invaders - ST (EP)

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Dis Band - Gone Dead Out

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Compilation - Saskatoon Rocks

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The Government - How Many Fingers?

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The Government - Electric Eye

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The Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

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Bumpers - EP

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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Ross Angeles - Salute

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - You Can´t Hold Me Anymore b/w Freaks On the Tube

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - Blimkie

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Drama - Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)

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Drama - Loneliness

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