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
Erect	The Colony	Consequence of Life	02:45
Government	Zippers of Fire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:05
Extras	Don’t Put Me On Hold	The Road to Zambando	02:52
Bicycle Thieves	First Aid to the Injured	ST	03:35
Decade of Dreams	One Night in Bohemia	Wild Colloquial	03:50
DeMars	Moonshadow	Stories from between the Walls	06:28
Cottage Industry	The Urge to Merge	The Winter's Tale	04:33
Kultur	Here it Comes	Kultur	03:11
Einstein	A Brighter Tomorrow	Sex and Science	03:09
Glamorcult	Lonely Faces	The Stone Sessions	03:12
Kaméléon	Microcosme (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	03:45
Breeding Ground	In the Sun	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:22
The Presence	Mechanoid	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	03:55
Benjamin Russell	Teresa	Madman	04:15
Compilation	Dale Hancocks - Carribea	Music Industry Arts 1983	01:53
Compilation	Deadlines - I'm You	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	02:03
Deserters	Thought Police	ST	04:08
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Body of Vagrant Waves	I Fear What I Might Hear	08:36
Iko	Subway 49	83	04:53
A Neon Rome	You Should Fear Us	A Neon Rome	05:44
A Fish in C	Touch	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
S.Q	Alone at Night	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:10
Roland Blinn	Tense	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	02:27
NEO A4	Around the World	ST	04:00
Pukka Orchestra	Power Cut	ST	05:13
FM109	Food On Nuclear Device	ST	06:38
Moral Support	Whatever Turns You On	Insanity	04:10
Volts	These Things Remain	Plugged In	03:57
Glamorcult	If Only You Knew	Early Glamour	04:13
39 Steps	Just Amphetamine	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:51
A Neon Rome	The Prayer	New Heroin	06:01
Spoons	Tidal Wave	Bridges Over Borders	03:55
Neon	Indulgence With a Vengeance	ST (EP)	03:58
Martha And The Muffins	Whatever Happened to Radio Valve Road?	Danseparc	03:00
Melinite	Waiting 4-U	Push The Button And Run!	01:48
Living End (1)	In Your Dreams	ST	02:48
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Let Them Eat Static	Midnite News	04:37
Faded Films	The Top	Faded Years	02:43
Melinite	Trouble in Section 17	Push The Button And Run!	01:46
Fictions	Jersey Shore	ST	02:48
Strange Advance	Sister Radio	Worlds Away	05:20
Glamorcult	Interlude	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:30
Age of Mirrors	Columbus Discovers America	Screenplay	03:12
Ralph Mashats	Empty Eyes (Fly My Way)	Irradies b/w Empty Eyes (Fly My Way) (picture sleeve)	05:05
Rational Youth	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	Cold War Nightlife	04:34
Handful of Snowdrops	Face to Face (Interim Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	06:33
Tame & Talking	The Hole	ST	03:11
Bündock	Season for Love	Société Anonyme	04:11
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Dischordant Concensus	Midnite News	03:45
FM109	Disappearing of the Sun	ST	03:54
Palace at 4 a.m.	I Go Hungry	Untamed World	03:43
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Spoons	A Girl in Two Pieces	Arias & Symphonies	04:27
Martha And The Muffins	Was Ezo	Trance and Dance	03:58
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Furniture Dancing	Spunker	03:15
Klō	Mrs. Fong	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	02:32
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Baby, Baby	Space and Time	03:35
Entrance System	No Relative	Imperfect Image	03:19
Instructions	OK	ST	03:53
Jon Mullane	One Turns Love Around	Following Yesterday	03:57
Bobby and Synthia	Video Violence	thirty-six hours (EP)	03:53
A Kid	Come	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:35
Popular Front (1)	Living On the Line	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	03:48
UJ3RK5	Booty Dread	ST (EP)	01:56
Andre Beaupre	The Saga of Wayne Gretzky	The Saga of Wayne Gretzky b/w The Saga of Wayne Gretzky Part II	03:16
Living End (1)	Close Your Eyes	ST	04:53
I Braineater	Funtime	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:24
Glamorcult	Follow the Shadow	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:24
Glamatron	Continentals	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	04:44
Eight Seconds	We Set Him Free	Big Houses	05:04
Drama	Jungle Chant	Loneliness	03:28
James Harcourt	It's a Matter of Time	Emotional Blackmail	02:24
Handful of Snowdrops	In the Eye of the Storm	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:25
Cardboard Brains	Caesar Drives a Fast Car	Live At The Edge	03:06
Volts	No Time Like the First Time	Plugged In	02:52
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	03:18
Redlife	Round	Hope for Tomorrow b/w Round	03:28
Instructions	Suburban Dream	ST	04:15
e	Reaction	Reaction b/w Coincidence	03:06
Martha And The Muffins	Cheesies and Gum	Metro Music	03:09
Home Grown	Up the Wall	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:45
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	The Swimmer	ST	02:30
Land of Giants	Security Squad	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
Hot Tip	Stop All Motion	Stop All Motion	04:34
Instructions	Ha - Ha Ha	ST	04:29
Diodes	Time of Your Life (1978 Previously Unreleased)	Rarities	02:46
Family Plot	Tic Tac	Convictions	04:08
Lawn	Peace in the Valley	Peace in the Valley	03:37
Compilation	Kinetic Ideals - The Whip (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:21
Informer	Hold It	I Know You Know b/w Hold It	03:12
Glamorcult	Fusion (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:23
Generra	Girls in the Hearts	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	04:19
Bunny & the Lakers	Batlore	Numbers	03:05
Kinetic Ideals	Fade Away	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	07:44
Home Grown	Thoughts of You	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:11
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Call	Midnite News	07:14
IQ	Burn Me	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:53
Deserters	Boys In Berlin	ST	03:42
Barking Boys	High Life - Low Life	The Yes Girls	02:46
Glamorcult	Start The Revolution	The Stone Sessions	04:03

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Hygiene Club - Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary

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Avril Chown - American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight

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Kultur - Kultur

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The Idles - The Idles Demo

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Hunger Project - Demo 1982

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Hunger Project - The Same Inside b/w Assembly

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Boys Brigade - Interview with Boys Brigade and Producer Geddy Lee

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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Voice - Anno Di Voce

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Klō - Demo 1981

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Klō - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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Klō - Demo 1982

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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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