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
Leotards	Suicide Lover	Suicide Lover b/w Runaway Bridge	03:15
Decade of Dreams	Stop This Car	Wild Colloquial	02:12
Tribal Earth	Who You Are (In the Movies)	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	02:46
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - I Wanna Be In Commercials	Toronto Calling	02:38
Voice	Wake Up Dreaming	Anno Di Voce	04:05
Preison's Shade	Tearing Down the Walls	Race Me Home (EP)	04:52
Instructions	OK	ST	03:53
Oui	Information	Oui	04:41
Austra	Lose It	Feel it Break	04:29
39 Steps	Teachers	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:22
Benjamin Russell	Can You See Me?	Madman	01:27
Border	Black and White	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:01
Glamorcult	Time Will Pass On By	Shadows From The Past	04:38
NEO A4	Sex (For Love)	The Warmer Side of You	02:39
Psyche	Eating Violins	Insomnia Theatre	02:45
Philip Rambow	Don't Come (Cryin' To Me)	Jungle Law	03:37
Scenics	Great Piles of Leaves	Underneath the Door	04:18
Images In Vogue	For Germans	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:39
Zipper	Another Boyfriend	Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls	02:52
Bitter Reality	A White Man (In Babylon)	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:40
Kaméléon	Insomnuit (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:35
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	Midnite News	03:44
I Braineater	Comeon	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:44
Kinetic Ideals	I Remember	Touch Me (Now)	05:10
Scenics	In the Summer	New Part In Town	04:22
Handful of Snowdrops	The Ghost of a Song	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:44
Ceramic Hello	Conversation Between Units	The Absence of a Canary	00:30
David Raven & the Escorts	One Way Love	David Raven And The Escorts	02:36
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:19
Rikki & The Rokkits	New Wave	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:10
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls b/w Seven Men	05:12
James Harcourt	Hook or By Crrok	Emotional Blackmail	03:33
DeMars	Even for All Those Years	Stories from between the Walls	04:39
Clooz	You Can Do	Leave Me Alone b/w You Can Do	03:02
Martha And The Muffins	Am I On?	Trance and Dance	03:24
Compilation	The Sharks - Get Off the Radio	No Pedestrians	03:00
Compilation	Direktive 17 - Mr. Jones	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:38
Kings	It's Okay	Are Here	02:55
A Neon Rome	Cums a Wolf	New Heroin	04:15
B-Sides	She's a Raver (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	01:34
I Braineater	Funtime	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:24
Moral Lepers	Suicide	Turn to Stone	02:06
Bora Bora	Fashion Passion	Fashion Passion b/w Starting Over	03:47
FM109	Disappearing of the Sun	ST	03:54
True Confessions	He's a Liar	ST	03:16
Compilation	Tulpä - Apologize to Your Mother	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:06
Figures At Dawn	Bridges Burning	ST	03:36
Images In Vogue	Grapevine	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:55
Glamorcult	She Doesn't Believe In The Magic	The Stone Sessions	03:57
Ceramic Hello	M - EX	The Absence of a Canary	00:23
Trespassing Bean Rays	Cleanorama Stakes	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:21
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Age of Reason(able Pleasure)	White Guilt	04:42
Vital Sines	Erik the Generik	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:45
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Errands For Eros	Spunker	04:09
Perfect World	Twist and Shove	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	03:18
Taro	Driftin Away	The Line Is Fine b/w Driftin Away (picture sleeve)	03:20
Bobby and Synthia	The Music Stopped	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:36
Breeding Ground	Slaughter	Reunion // Slaughter	04:55
FM109	Food On Nuclear Device	ST	06:38
Popular Front	Doomsday Army	Doomsday Army b/w Puppet	03:53
Handful of Snowdrops	Gabrielle (1987)	Mort en direct	06:32
S.Q	One Love	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:34
NEO A4	Look to Your Heart	The Warmer Side of You	03:47
I Braineater	Waste	I Here, Where You	02:39
Erect	She's a Bitch	Consequence of Life	03:14
Glamorcult	Jazzam	A Price To Paris	03:29
Villains	Laugh it Out	Go Crazy	03:54
Images In Vogue	In the House	In The House	04:07
Moral Support	Closer to You	Insanity	03:19
Darkroom	Leave it to Heaven	San Paku	03:45
Blue Peter	Cloak and Dagger	Test Patterns For Living	03:45
Magic Dragon	(White Monkey) Under The Volcano	Emotional Landscape	07:16
Modernettes	Won't Have To Worry	Gone..But Not Forgiven	02:22
Drama	Old Hollywood	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	03:32
A Kid	Dirty Bedding	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:35
Johnny Zhivago	Looking at You	Microalbum	04:28
Tim Ray	Now What Was That	ST	02:58
Keys	Lied To!	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)	02:18
Golden Calgarians	New Desperados	New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)	03:07
Dancespeak	Heart of My Song	Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)	03:49
Within Gothic Towers	Will I Hope To Love	Within Gothic Towers	05:44
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	My Time	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	05:15
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Upcoming Storm	Space and Time	03:38
A Neon Rome	You Should Fear Us	New Heroin	05:44
Norda	Snakes And Ladders	West Over Seas	02:51
Blueprints	Down On My Sublife	Stare 01	04:06
Moral Lepers	Music is Your Body	Turn to Stone	02:45
Buddy King & the Motion!	I Didn't Know Her	Schoolgirl Alibis b/w I Didn't Know Her	02:14
Jon Mullane	One Turns Love Around	Following Yesterday	03:57
NEO A4	Understand	ST	04:01
Ohm & the Secret Sources	No Feelings	Space and Time	03:34
Rob Bryanton	Just a Shy Guy	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:30
Psyche	Suffocation	Insomnia Theatre	03:10
Lou Champagne System	Another Dimension	No Visible Means	04:50
Handful of Snowdrops	Charlatan (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	05:25
Kreemers	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo	03:14
Insex	One	One (EP)	04:47
Extras	Teddy	Bit Parts	05:50
Me And the Mosquitos	Go Away	Go Away b/w Valium	03:43
Two Men Laughing	Imprisoned Lorri	Imprisoned Lorri b/w Dancing in Moscow (picture sleeve)	03:39

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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Beach Punks - She Got Body Talk

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Hush - Replay

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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The Scene (2) - Only in Paradise

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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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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