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
Rex Chainbelt	Fighter Plane	Foreign Movie	02:14
Johnny Faith	Party time	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	01:42
Austra	Hate Crime	Feel it Break	04:01
DeMars	Les télé-têtes	Les Télé-Têtes	04:41
Compilation	Kinetic Ideals - The Whip (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:21
Calling Rain	Laid in Ruins	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	04:45
Rave Revues	Have You	Voices	04:01
Compilation	Dis Band - Hesitation (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:16
Volts	Dirty Money	Plugged In	02:59
Drama	Jungle Chant	Loneliness	03:28
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	The Swimmer	ST	02:30
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39
Rave Revues	Self Inflicted Wounds	Voices	03:06
Modern Minds	The Fear Begins	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:48
Golden Calgarians	Getting Weaker	Savage Love	03:05
Modernes Pickles	Blue Baby Baby White	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	01:50
Cannon Heath Down	quagmire	Heart-Throb Companion	00:30
Scenics	I'm Hurt	Underneath the Door	02:02
Living End (1)	Blow	ST	02:35
The Front	Who Your Friends Are	Gina's at a Party	03:45
Handful of Snowdrops	The Keep (Interim Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:31
Degrees of Freedom	Call Me Midnight	China	04:51
The Scene (2)	Egos Trip	Only in Paradise	06:34
Erect	Weekend	Consequence of Life	02:41
Living End (1)	Close Your Eyes	ST	04:53
Cannon Heath Down	ma-de-moi-selle	Heart-Throb Companion	03:15
Fictions	Jersey Shore	ST	02:48
Tulpa	Mystical Dreams	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	03:36
Cannon Heath Down	Safe As Milk	Heart-Throb Companion	03:35
Blue Peter	Factory Living	Test Patterns For Living	02:50
Spoons	Conventional Beliefs	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:57
Handful of Snowdrops	Still We Live (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:37
Hot Tip	Bridge to Manhattan	Stop All Motion	03:05
Contradance	She's Got an Eyepiece	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	04:19
Moral Lepers	Shadow	Turn to Stone	03:03
Low Fun	The New Dictator	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	05:01
Vis-A-Vis	Prison of Eyes	Heart and Soul	04:50
Living End (1)	Is it Murder	ST	03:34
Corsage	Down at the Rock	ST	03:26
Martha And The Muffins	What People Do for Fun	Danseparc	04:02
UJ3RK5	Booty Dread	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	02:49
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a T.V. Set	Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.	05:08
Villains	Call Me Up	Go Crazy	03:00
Austra	The Beast	Feel it Break	04:02
D.A.R.Y.L.	Time 2 Start Again	Time 2 Start Again b/w Time 2 Start Again (Garage Mix)	04:35
Mobile Clones	Motionless	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:19
Red Herring	Maturity	Taste Tests	04:23
Mobile Clones	Abrasive Air	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	02:24
100 Flowers	The Naught	21st Guessing	03:56
Benjamin Russell	Action and Reaction	Madman	02:14
Extras	Mega Media Myth	The Road to Zambando	04:47
Roland Blinn	Tense	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	02:27
Odd Man Out	Whatever Happened to Us	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	04:02
Instructions	Naked Deer	ST	02:49
Rob Bryanton	Gimme a Beer!	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:24
Bicycle Thieves	Imperial Love	ST	04:07
Keys	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)	03:16
Paperboys (1)	Looking for Sharon	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	02:57
Age of Mirrors	The Day the Earth Stands Still - Breathless	Mirage	05:44
Rarefaction	I Dreamt	Abstract Minds b/w I Dreamt (picture sleeve)	04:04
Glamorcult	All Those Lies	The Stone Sessions	03:25
Popular Front (1)	We One	This is the Rubicon	04:59
Strange Advance	One Chance in a Million	Worlds Away	04:12
Einstein	Mr. Science	Sex and Science	02:35
Moev	Alibis	Dusk and Desire	04:37
Handful of Snowdrops	The Scariest Notion (1st Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:08
A Day in Paris	déjà vu	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:59
Me And the Mosquitos	Valium	Go Away b/w Valium	03:03
Carbon Unit	The Marsh	The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)	02:45
Hot Tip	Teach Me Something	Stop All Motion	04:12
39 Steps	Let's Flirt With Danger	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:16
Red Herring	The Crab Song	Taste Tests	03:57
Glamorcult	Interlude	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:30
Family Plot	Dervish	Convictions	04:11
Taro	Driftin Away	The Line Is Fine b/w Driftin Away (picture sleeve)	03:20
Tower Bridge	Perfection	Perfection b/w Out of My Mind Girl (picture sleeve)	04:07
Vital Sines	Big Dark Dreams	Big Dark Dreams	05:25
Bobby and Synthia	Queen Street	thirty-six hours (EP)	04:56
Glamorcult	Lonely Faces	The Stone Sessions	03:12
Spoons	The Rhythm	Talkback	04:06
Decade of Dreams	The Bridge	Wild Colloquial	03:31
Glamorcult	Shadows of Regret	A Price To Paris	03:44
Fictions	Do it With the Lights On	ST	03:07
Compilation	Dave Howard Singers - Road Warrior	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	08:01
Handful of Snowdrops	Godhood (1989)	Mort en direct	04:44
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Exit From a Dream	04:33
Bündock	Season for Love	Société Anonyme	04:11
B-Sides	Emotions	Red to Black	04:11
Images In Vogue	Breaking Up	Educated Man	04:36
Drastic Measures	T.N.T.	ST	03:51
Corsage	St. John's Wood (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:49
Voice	Lime	Anno Di Voce	02:58
Erect	She's a Bitch	Consequence of Life	03:14
Instructions	The Extra	ST	03:12
Regulators	What's in the City	What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)	03:42
Kings	Love Store	Are Here	03:28
Drastic Measures	See My House	ST	02:46
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	01:00
Degrees of Freedom	August is an Angel	China	04:27
Compilation	Winston Hancock & The Changes - Love at First Sight	The Circuit	02:36

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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