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
Handful of Snowdrops	Mort en direct (1989)	Mort en direct	03:38
James Harcourt	Moment of Madness	Emotional Blackmail	03:03
Instructions	Ha - Ha Ha	ST	04:29
Class Info	Come For Me	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	02:27
Images In Vogue	Masks	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:56
Mannequin Depressives	I Don't Get You	Girls Are Evil	04:31
Cannon Heath Down	Julia Rainbow	Heart-Throb Companion	04:31
Spoons	On the Beach	Bridges Over Borders	03:48
A Fish in C	In Transit	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
Spoons	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:00
Paperboys (1)	Saturday 12 Midnight	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	03:33
Austra	The Noise	Feel it Break	03:31
Kaméléon	Genocide genethliaque	ST	04:03
e	Dance With Me	The Levitation Syndrome	03:36
Strange Advance	Kiss in the Dark	Worlds Away	03:56
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
Kinetic Ideals	Together	A Personal View (EP)	05:54
Strange Advance	Prisoner	Worlds Away	04:15
Cardboard Brains	Summertime!	Live At The Edge	03:31
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Space and Time	04:26
Inner Sanction	White Boy Rap	Dancematic-Automatic	05:58
The Patterns	Always Sixteen	Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen	02:44
Glamorcult	She Touched My Soul	Early Glamour	04:50
BB Gabor	Moscow Drug Club	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Moscow Drug Club (picture sleeve)	04:26
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cold War Nightlife	03:14
Rational Youth	Sorry	Heredity	04:47
The Play	Whispers in the Air	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:50
D.A.R.Y.L.	Time 2 Start Again	Time 2 Start Again b/w Time 2 Start Again (Garage Mix)	04:35
e	The Fall	The Levitation Syndrome	03:15
Secret Act	My Neighbourhood	My Neighbourhood	05:51
Salty Seamen	Lime Green Blues	In The Groove At Last	02:29
Compilation	The Sharks - Get Off the Radio	No Pedestrians	03:00
Conning Tower	Indian Dancing	Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under	04:40
Kaméléon	Chanson en "on" (Pour Kaméléon)	ST	03:09
Lawn	Catwalk Slip	Peace in the Valley	03:24
Living End (1)	Better Pictures	ST	02:53
Compilation	The Sturm Group - Upon a Nerve (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:34
Velveteens	Tall House	Tall House (EP)	03:05
Scenics	O Boy	Underneath the Door	01:58
Rational Youth	Latin Lovers	ST (mini album)	03:51
Modern Minds	All Day & All of the Night	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:18
Mettle	The Invisibles	ST	03:14
Diodes	Edge of Darkness	Action-Reaction	03:10
The Hurt	Local Belt	Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)	03:18
Compilation	Winston Hancock & The Changes - Stood Up	The Circuit	02:42
Andrew Matheson	Johnny Lets Run	Monterey Shoes	03:49
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald	Red to Black	03:52
Sebastian (Agnello)	No Compromise	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:34
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	I Tie My Shoes	Midnite News	05:25
Benjamin Russell	Miracle	Pop Modern(e)	05:28
Erect	Lay Down and Die	Consequence of Life	03:18
Reasons	Boy He's Got a Girl	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:52
Psyche	Misery	The Influence	04:06
Blue Peter	Cloak and Dagger	Test Patterns For Living	03:45
39 Steps	Always Tomorrow	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:37
Scenics	Farm Reports and Test Patterns	New Part In Town	03:50
Paperboys (1)	Looking for Sharon	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	02:57
Darkroom	Leave it to Heaven	San Paku	03:45
Einstein	Man-Child	Sex and Science	03:38
Darkroom	Pressure	San Paku	04:09
S.Q	Alone at Night	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:10
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:50
Faded Films	Faded Years	Faded Years	04:11
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Robots in the Cellar	Space and Time	04:06
Tenants	Forget About Forgetting	ST	03:53
Kaméléon	Les chats balerines (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:01
Drama	As I Breathe On The T.T.C.	Loneliness	04:04
Rave Revues	Everyone’s a Critic	Voices	06:45
Glamorcult	Innocense of Yesterday	Early Glamour	04:21
Modern Minds	Slap in the Face	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
Compilation	Tyranna - Back Off Baby	No Pedestrians	02:26
Strange Advance	Watermusic	Worlds Away	00:55
Rex Chainbelt	Fighter Plane	Foreign Movie	02:14
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
B-Sides	She's a Raver (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:06
John Young Paul	The Girl Spells Grief	The Life of Ermie Scub	01:38
Diodes	Coma	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
Psyche	Maggots	Insomnia Theatre	04:27
James Harcourt	Queen Bee	Emotional Blackmail	02:17
Men Without Hats	Utter Space	Folk of the 80's (EP)	02:44
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	Heredity	05:17
Drastic Measures	Silk Stockings	ST	02:38
Handful of Snowdrops	A New Light (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:19
Kinetic Ideals	No Exit	Reason (EP)	05:39
Diodes	Mercenary Flight (1978 Alternate Version) (CD only)	Rarities	03:21
45's	Say You'll Be Mine	On the Beach	03:15
Darkroom	It's Cold Out Here	San Paku	03:44
Erect	Human Beings	Consequence of Life	04:09
Handful of Snowdrops	The View (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	06:28
Kaméléon	Microcosme	ST	03:40
Age of Mirrors	Raiders of the Heart	Screenplay	03:39
Land of Giants	I Will	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:44
Glamorcult	Past Glory (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	04:32
Compilation	Conditioned Response - Are You Responding	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:28
Salty Seamen	Mindless Sex	In The Groove At Last	02:27
Barking Boys	Incident In St. Jamestown	The Yes Girls	04:58
Rational Youth	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	Cold War Nightlife	04:34
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets (Bonus Track)	A Price To Paris	04:15
Calling Rain	Cross	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	05:21
Null Set	Stripe	New Job (EP)	01:18

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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