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
Compilation	Don Bregg - Hypnotized	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:27
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Sister H. Immaculata	Spunker	02:12
39 Steps	A Taste of Poison [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:35
Glamorcult	Hope For Change To Come	Shadows From The Past	03:42
The Edge	Play the Game	Release the Circle	04:07
Scenics	One Comes Closer	Underneath the Door	03:18
Contradance	Trouble in the Darkness	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	05:53
Rolf Kempf	Bye Bye Baby	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:36
James Harcourt	Emotional Blackmail	Emotional Blackmail	02:21
Roland Blinn	Tense	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	02:27
39 Steps	City of Vice [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:25
Entrance System	Minimal Spirits	Imperfect Image	03:24
Glamatron	Factor 2-2-2	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:53
The Scene (2)	Soul Spectrum	Only in Paradise	05:09
Inner Sanction	Sparkle	Shake Up - Fly Down	02:51
Images In Vogue	She's a Garden	Educated Man	02:48
John Young Paul	The Boulevards of Hope	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:37
Conning Tower	Looking Up From Under	Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under	03:35
Instructions	Tell-a-Photo	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:38
Ceramic Hello	The Disqued	The Absence of a Canary	03:54
Inner Sanction	Direction Perfection	Dancematic-Automatic	04:32
Channel Five	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
Quasi Hands	Parallel Lines	ST	03:19
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Hothouse	ST	04:32
James Harcourt	Hook or By Crrok	Emotional Blackmail	03:33
Corsage	Big Night Out (Single Mix)	Big Night Out (EP)	05:11
Kaméléon	Anachronisme	ST	04:14
Martha And The Muffins	One Day in Paris	This Is The Ice Age	04:20
Martha And The Muffins	Symptomatic Love	Trance and Dance	04:08
I Braineater	I Am	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:07
Tin Twist	Stupid Cars	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	01:37
Handful of Snowdrops	From One Place to Another	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:10
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Someone Should Have Told Me (Behind Black Gloves)	Space and Time	04:39
John Young Paul	Ermie has Feelers	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:25
e	Dance With Me	The Levitation Syndrome	03:36
DeMars	Déchéance	Les Télé-Têtes	03:41
Eight Seconds	Chopin's Heart	Big Houses	04:51
State Of Mind	The Dark Side	I'll Be Yours b/w The Dark Side (picture sleeve)	03:45
Handful of Snowdrops	The Keep (Interim Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:31
Drastic Measures	Maniacs in Cadillacs	ST	02:38
Glamorcult	Lost Souls In Time	The Stone Sessions	03:40
Glamorcult	Time Is Running Out	Shadows From The Past	03:16
Kinetic Ideals	Maze of Ways	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	04:09
Modern Minds	Slap in the Face	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
Lawn	Jet Pack	Peace in the Valley	05:41
Psyche	The Brain Collapses	Insomnia Theatre	04:09
Mettle	Evening Ocean	ST	02:58
Bora Bora	Starting Over	Fashion Passion b/w Starting Over	04:23
Oui	You Make Me High	Oui	04:41
Psyche	Wake the Flood Unconscious	Mystery Hotel	02:53
Moev	Cocoon	Zimmerkampf	04:45
Volts	Loneliness in the Air Age	Plugged In	02:43
Rex Chainbelt	Mon Ami	Foreign Movie	02:22
Diodes	Play With Fire	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	05:30
The Hurt	Engaged	Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)	03:11
Modern Minds	The Mess	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:09
Zipper	Bad Girls	Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls	02:55
Kaméléon	Napalm	ST	02:54
Cottage Industry	The Crucial Moment	The Winter's Tale	03:49
The Front	Twice Shy	Underworld	03:37
Lou Champagne System	Propaganda Frustration	No Visible Means	06:49
John Young Paul	Summertime!	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:29
Numbers	Get Away	Add Up	02:43
Images In Vogue	Quiet Room	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:39
Benjamin Russell	Out of it Girl	Madman	01:37
Secret Act	Night Club	My Neighbourhood	03:45
Diodes	Everything I Am	Action-Reaction	03:15
The Scene (2)	Egos Trip	Only in Paradise	06:34
Glamorcult	Table Thirty	Early Glamour	03:38
Rob Bryanton	Just a Shy Guy	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:30
Jon Mullane	The Distant Light	Following Yesterday	04:05
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Space and Time	04:49
Electric Mocean	Television Eyes	Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)	03:46
Red Herring	Taste Tests	Taste Tests	02:50
Lou Champagne System	Machine Muzik	No Visible Means	04:20
Popular Front (1)	We One	This is the Rubicon	04:59
Martha And The Muffins	This is the Ice Age	This Is The Ice Age	07:34
Age of Mirrors	Wave About Her	Mirage	04:33
DeMars	Les cosmétiques cosmiques	Les Télé-Têtes	03:48
Living End (1)	Anaesthesia Grin	ST	03:29
Handful of Snowdrops	A New Light (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:19
Klō	Break the Floor	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	03:34
Eight Seconds	We Set Him Free	Big Houses	05:04
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heer Comes the Future	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:50
Glamorcult	Distant Memories	The Stone Sessions	04:07
Secret Act	Poor Boy	My Neighbourhood	03:36
The Plugs	Sending An S.O.S.	Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today	03:21
Scenics	Bubbles	Underneath the Door	02:26
Psyche	Prisoner to Desire	Unveiling The Secret	05:37
Martha And The Muffins	Am I On?	Trance and Dance	03:24
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Now They've Landed (Harmonics)	Space and Time	05:01
John Young Paul	Have You Seen the Boy in the Gutter with the Broken Mind?	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:10
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Rock 'N' Roll	Ohama aka The White Album	04:26
Diodes	Tennis Again (Sept. 1977 Toronto Sound Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	03:12
True Confessions	Modern Personality	ST	04:12
Class Info	Out of Line	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	04:04
Inner Sanction	Standing in the Rain	Prophecy	03:21
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:12
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	01:00
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

FEATURED

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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