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
Hush	Dancing in East Berlin	Replay	04:17
Psyche	Wink of an Eye	Insomnia Theatre	05:37
B-Sides	Underground Radio Stars (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	01:59
100 Flowers	We're Waiting	21st Guessing	03:11
Secret Act	Northern Spy	My Neighbourhood	03:31
Compilation	Conditioned Response - Are You Responding	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:28
Compilation	Kinetic Ideals - The Whip (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:21
Tribal Earth	Got to Move	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	04:09
Glamorcult	Forever Strangers	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	03:35
Melinite	Seasoning	Push The Button And Run!	01:23
Scenics	I Have You	Underneath the Door	02:07
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News Finale	Ohama aka The White Album	05:46
Glamorcult	Fusion (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:23
I Braineater	Wrong World	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:46
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	Heredity	05:17
Spoons	Capitol Hill	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:37
39 Steps	Hit It Up	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:14
Einstein	Body & Mind	Sex and Science	03:49
Hush	Now Reality	Replay	04:41
Villains	Go Crazy	Go Crazy	03:17
Instructions	Learn from Computers	ST	04:15
Compilation	Arrows - Come On Up	Toronto Calling	02:57
Handful of Snowdrops	A New Light (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:19
John Lutz T.	Kiss And Tell	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	02:10
Psyche	The Brain Collapses (Original Concept)	Insomnia Theatre	04:07
FM109	L'ecole est fuckee	ST	04:19
Mettle	The Invisibles	ST	03:14
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Frigidaires	Three Cool Cats	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:12
Strange Advance	Prisoner	Worlds Away	04:15
Spoons	Blow Away	Arias & Symphonies	05:59
Pukka Orchestra	Knocking On Open Doors	The Palace Of Memeory	03:56
Strange Advance	Hold On to the Nite	Worlds Away	04:34
Diodes	Burn Down Your Daddy's House	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:16
Breeding Ground	Love Rectangle	Obscurity And Flair	04:08
Salty Seamen	Goddess of the Hunt	In The Groove At Last	02:30
Inner Sanction	Culture Dance	Shake Up - Fly Down	04:35
NEO A4	In My Life	The Warmer Side of You	03:19
Start	Just Another Girl	Hey You	04:57
Calling Rain	Laid in Ruins	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	04:45
The Edge	Play the Game	Release the Circle	04:07
Doppler Bros.	I Wanna Write for the Muzak Man	Totally Impractical	03:58
Rational Youth	Cité phosphore	Cité phosphoree b/w Le meilleur des mondes	04:05
Secret Act	That Certain Feeling	My Neighbourhood	03:33
Men Without Hats	I Got the Message	The Safety Dance	04:47
Darkroom	Don't Talk	San Paku	03:32
Generra	Don’t Cut Me	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	03:57
DeMars	Véhiculation humaine	Les Télé-Têtes	04:54
Kinetic Ideals	Absurdity	Reason (EP)	05:23
The Front	The Hard Line	Gina's at a Party	03:06
Within Gothic Towers	I Will Lead You	Within Gothic Towers	04:58
Ear Candy	Part of Me	Self Defence	04:34
45's	On the Beach	On the Beach	04:05
Martha And The Muffins	Halfway Through the Week	Trance and Dance	03:41
Government	Zippers of Fire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:05
Philip Rambow	Magnificient Obsession	Jungle Law	03:39
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Space and Time	05:20
Compilation	Julie Choquette - Dream in My Head	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:34
Glamorcult	Hope For Change To Come	Shadows From The Past	03:42
Diodes	Everything I Am	Action-Reaction	03:15
Modern Minds	Girl Crazy	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:22
Absolute 9	The Gift	ST	03:03
Scissors	All This And More	ST	02:46
Scenics	This Day	New Part In Town	03:08
True Confessions	4th Base	ST	02:46
Volts	Dirty Money	Plugged In	02:59
Rex Chainbelt	Mon Ami	Foreign Movie	02:22
Moev	Sea-Missile Motel	Dusk and Desire	06:23
Scenics	O Boy	Underneath the Door	01:58
B-Sides	B-Side Shuffle	Red to Black	02:25
Utopiate	Actions or Misguidance	You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance	03:06
The Front	The Haunting (Jimmy Loves Mary-Ann)	Gina's at a Party	04:07
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Timeless Thoughts (To the Stars)	Space and Time	04:54
Tower Bridge	Perfection	Perfection b/w Out of My Mind Girl (picture sleeve)	04:07
The Front	Your Street	Underworld	04:10
I Braineater	Tin Pins and Cat Fur	I Here, Where You	02:36
Drastic Measures	I Need You Now	ST	02:43
Spoons	Tidal Wave	Bridges Over Borders	03:55
Vital Sines	Big Dark Dreams	Big Dark Dreams	05:25
Spoons	Stop	Talkback	03:16
James Harcourt	Moment of Madness	Emotional Blackmail	03:03
Tim Ray	D-Scratch	ST	02:04
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Mad at the World	Space and Time	03:51
45's	She's In Love	On the Beach	03:27
Modernes Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:44
Bunny & the Lakers	Batlore	Numbers	03:05
Figures At Dawn	In from the Cold	ST	03:54
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Klō	Break the Floor	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	03:34
Glamorcult	Table Thirty	Early Glamour	03:38
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	TV	Ohama aka The White Album	04:33
Eight Seconds	Here Stood Troy	Big Houses	06:33
Cottage Industry	Things Go Up	The Winter's Tale	03:34
Compilation	Arson - We've Gotta Get Out of this Place	No Pedestrians	04:26
Images In Vogue	Masks	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:56
Corsage	St. John's Wood (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:49
Entrance System	Imperfect Image	Imperfect Image	03:38
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
The Presence	Mechanoid	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	03:55
Cannon Heath Down	ma-de-moi-selle	Heart-Throb Companion	03:15

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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