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
Mettle	All You Wanted	ST	03:59
Emport	Picture Frame Love Affair	Heartaches b/w Picture Frame Love Affair	04:19
Family Plot	Gravedigger	Convictions	02:19
Oui	Circle of Love	Oui	04:20
Glen Meadmore	Going to Town	Chicken & Biscuits	05:09
UJ3RK5	Naum Gabo	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:18
Drama	This Time	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	04:13
Salty Seamen	Rings Around Uranus	In The Groove At Last	02:18
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Over Mountains	Ohama aka The White Album	03:14
Glamorcult	She Touched My Soul	Early Glamour	04:50
Start	Out of the Tube	Hey You	02:27
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
Hot Tip	Friends	Stop All Motion	03:49
39 Steps	I'll Take the Blame	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:25
Glamorcult	As I Breathe on The TTC	Shadows From The Past	03:58
Neon	Indulgence With a Vengeance	ST (EP)	03:58
Breeding Ground	Love Rectangle	Obscurity And Flair	04:08
Hot Tip	Fast Boys	Stop All Motion	03:23
Glamorcult	Mine is the Maiden	Early Glamour	04:39
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Mama Quilla II	KKK	ST (EP)	05:40
Chemicals	Run and Hide	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	02:49
Glen Meadmore	Blissful Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:24
Land of Giants	Just Yet	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:30
Shanghai Lil	Nirvana - Oh What a Night	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:57
Eight Seconds	Listen	Almacantar	05:17
Barking Boys	Incident In St. Jamestown	The Yes Girls	04:58
Cottage Industry	The Point on a Hill	The Winter's Tale	03:59
Ear Candy	The Hunter	Self Defence	05:06
Rob Bryanton	Another Day, Another Show	Alcohol And Other Drugs	03:15
Breeding Ground	Happy Now I Know	Tales of Adventure (EP)	03:45
Kinetic Ideals	Angular Sky	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	06:57
Strange Advance	Watermusic	Worlds Away	00:55
Moral Support	Closer to You	Insanity	03:19
Voice	I Am the Walrus	Anno Di Voce	03:24
Oui	On Our Way	Oui	03:36
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Direktive 17	Between You & Me	ST (EP)	03:38
Spoons	Quiet World	Talkback	04:37
Handful of Snowdrops	Gabrielle (1987)	Mort en direct	06:32
Martha And The Muffins	Motorbikin'	Trance and Dance	02:58
Extras	Zambando	The Road to Zambando	04:17
Home Grown	Up the Wall	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:45
Kings	Love Store	Are Here	03:28
Compilation	Zro4 - Blood	No Pedestrians	03:29
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Thin Lines	Midway b/w Thin Lines	05:53
Extras	Aqua Velva Man	Bit Parts	02:49
Corsage	Jackson	ST	03:41
Bonus Boys	Wasting Our Time	Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time	03:16
Velveteens	Tired of the Beat	Tall House (EP)	03:30
Jon Mullane	Open Up to Me	Following Yesterday	03:58
Tin Twist	Sometimes It's Funny	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	03:38
e	Dance With Me	The Levitation Syndrome	03:36
Images In Vogue	Welcome to Sorrow	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:07
Handful of Snowdrops	Terroir I	Land of the Damned	02:41
Ralph Mashats	Irradies	Irradies b/w Empty Eyes (Fly My Way) (picture sleeve)	03:54
Avril Chown	American Boys	American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight	03:04
B-Sides	Much Too Serious	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	02:44
Timothy Chipman	China Doll	Ghost Parade	02:31
I Braineater	I Here Where You	I Here, Where You	02:51
39 Steps	Just Amphetamine	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:51
Salty Seamen	Goddess of the Hunt	In The Groove At Last	02:30
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Instrumental)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:18
Thieves	Police Squad	I See Red	03:27
Martha And The Muffins	Indecision	Metro Music	04:23
Kaméléon	Un p'tit coup	ST	04:03
John Young Paul	Ermie has Feelers	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:25
Age of Mirrors	Simple Gift of Love	Mirage	03:05
True Confessions	He's a Liar	ST	03:16
Images In Vogue	Quiet Room	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	03:32
Handful of Snowdrops	Alice in Wonderland (1992)	Mort en direct	05:20
Glamatron	Continentals	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	04:44
Glamorcult	The Bass of Our Style	A Price To Paris	03:53
B-Sides	State of Emergency	Red to Black	04:22
Iko	Digital Delight	83	05:53
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	I Tie My Shoes	Ohama aka The White Album	05:58
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Class Info	Circle Game	Inside	02:20
Chris Evans & The Quarts	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	03:36
NEO A4	Is She is She	ST	04:39
Bündock	El Salvador (The Beat of)	Société Anonyme	04:30
I Braineater	Tin Pins and Cat Fur	I Here, Where You	02:36
Norda	V	West Over Seas	05:27
Land of Giants	Cannibal Dolls	Cannibal Dolls b/w Seven Men	03:32
Dancespeak	Heart of My Song	Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)	03:49
Strange Advance	Hold On to the Nite	Worlds Away	04:34
Glamorcult	Innocense of Yesterday	Early Glamour	04:21
Glamorcult	After the Battle	Early Glamour	03:12
Awake The Echoes	Love For Life	Normal Life	03:31
Dada	If I'm Blind	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:46
Breeding Ground	Thin Red Line	Wintergarden (EP)	04:22
Glamorcult	A Price to Paris	A Price To Paris	04:31
Glamorcult	The Fight Is Over	Shadows From The Past	04:10
Compilation	Vital Sines - Not My World (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:15
Government	On the Prowl	Electric Eye	04:39
Images In Vogue	In the House (Extended Dance Remix)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	08:25
Rave Revues	Play in Your Grave	Voices	04:31
True Confessions	Don't Go to Work on Me	ST	02:11
Breeding Ground	Epic	Tales of Adventure (EP)	06:43
Psyche	Psychic Vampire	Insomnia Theatre	02:55

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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