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
Extras	Cult Kids	Bit Parts	03:07
Modern Minds	The Fear Begins	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:48
Compilation	Tammie Chicorli - A Special Day	Music Industry Arts 1983	01:29
Images In Vogue	Holiday	In The House	05:14
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Simple Man	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:16
Golden Calgarians	My Big Truck	Savage Love	03:25
Austra	Beat and the Pulse	Feel it Break	04:55
Men Without Hats	Ideas for Walls	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:27
Martha And The Muffins	This is the Ice Age	This Is The Ice Age	07:34
Martha And The Muffins	Danseparc (Every Day It's Tomorrow)	Danseparc	03:22
Philip Rambow	Jungle Law	Jungle Law	03:15
Rex Chainbelt	Rich Man	Foreign Movie	02:52
Martha And The Muffins	Teddy the Dink	Trance and Dance	03:29
Rex Chainbelt	Goodbye Carol	Foreign Movie	03:24
Golden Calgarians	Sex Under Missiles	Savage Love	03:34
Decade of Dreams	A Conversation With Myself	Wild Colloquial	03:32
A Neon Rome	You Should Fear Us	A Neon Rome	05:44
Compilation	Arrows - Treat Her Right	Toronto Calling	02:52
Wrestlers	Dance of the Drunk	ST	02:37
Rational Youth	In Your Eyes	Heredity	03:13
Extras	I Never Told You, I Told You So	The Watcher (EP)	04:26
Numbers	Sideways Elevator	Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it	03:09
Deserters	No Time for Talking	ST	03:16
Glamorcult	Lost Souls In Time	The Stone Sessions	03:40
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower & the Hippies	ST (EP)	02:29
Rave Revues	Living in the Shadows	Voices	04:07
Hot Tip	My Shoes	Stop All Motion	03:52
FM109	S.O.S.	ST	03:54
Oui	Turn of the Century	Oui	04:13
NEO A4	Home	The Warmer Side of You	02:53
Cannon Heath Down	Safe As Milk	Heart-Throb Companion	03:35
Kultur	Crusader	Kultur	03:02
Sebastian (Agnello)	No Compromise	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:34
Benjamin Russell	Dreaming Girl	Madman	02:24
100 Flowers	Nothing is Hard	21st Guessing	04:31
45's	She's In Love	On the Beach	03:27
Mettle	All You Wanted	ST	03:59
UJ3RK5	The Anglican	ST (EP)	03:53
The Voxx	Flower Boy	Flower Boy b/w Flower Boy DVB	03:01
Perfect World	Have a Good Look	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	05:10
Decade of Dreams	Stop This Car	Wild Colloquial	02:12
Within Gothic Towers	Day Dreaming	Within Gothic Towers	03:14
DeMars	Véhiculation humaine	Les Télé-Têtes	04:54
Glamorcult	Interlude	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:30
Nasty Habits	Cleopatra	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:27
Hush	Highway of Love	Replay	03:31
Einstein	Incognito	Sex and Science	03:50
Modern Minds	Love to Me	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:32
True Confessions	Mating Games	ST	03:06
Friendly Fire	I Saw Her Smile	Junior Senility EP	02:31
Breeding Ground	Slaughter	Reunion // Slaughter	04:55
Diodes	Polaroid	Action-Reaction	02:37
This Fear	Soldier of This Fashion (Extended)	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:14
Tribal Earth	Who You Are (In the Movies)	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	02:46
Tenants	You Don't Know What I've Been Thru	ST	03:40
100 Flowers	We're Waiting	21st Guessing	03:11
A Day in Paris	Too Tired	Prey	03:34
Kultur	Here it Comes	Kultur	03:11
Pukka Orchestra	Your Secret is Safe With Me	ST	04:11
NEO A4	Is She is She	ST	04:39
Glamorcult	All That Matters	Shadows From The Past	03:39
Martha And The Muffins	Whatever Happened to Radio Valve Road?	Danseparc	03:00
The Play	Running Out of Time	Running Out of Time b/w Whatever it Takes	03:15
A Kid	Wrong and Bite	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	06:21
Tin Twist	Sometimes It's Funny	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	03:38
Handful of Snowdrops	What You Want	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:30
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Can't Find the Key	Music Industry Arts 1983	05:45
Bobby and Synthia	Queen Street	thirty-six hours (EP)	04:56
Teasers	I Love You	Love Me Like You Did Last Night b/w I Love You	02:08
The Patterns	Afraid to Touch	Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen	03:57
The Vox	Mary-Go-Round	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	03:29
Modern Minds	Out of Luck (Pointed Sticks)	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:55
Graphics	Our Planet Ocean	Sleepdancer b/w Our Planet Ocean	03:17
Spoons	On the Beach	Bridges Over Borders	03:48
e	Excerpt	Prime Cuts	02:09
Broken Tables	The Ruins	ST	05:50
Jon Mullane	In Our Hearts	Following Yesterday	03:22
Bumpers	Log 1	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	04:45
Rex Chainbelt	Cherry Beach	Foreign Movie	02:55
Pointed Sticks	Out of Luck	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:32
Rarefaction	All the Broken Seams	Ordinary Man	03:44
Corsage	Shut-Ins	ST	03:11
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Crusaders	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	03:49
Pukka Orchestra	Goldmine in the Sky	The Palace Of Memeory	03:58
A Neon Rome	Islam	New Heroin	10:18
Within Gothic Towers	I Will Lead You	Within Gothic Towers	04:58
Instructions	Naked Deer	ST	02:49
Glamorcult	She Doesn't Believe In The Magic	The Stone Sessions	03:57
Numbers	Can't Take it	Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it	03:42
Drastic Measures	Maniacs in Cadillacs	ST	02:38
The Front	Simple Dreams	Gina's at a Party	03:39
Handful of Snowdrops	White Dominoes (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:11
Volts	Words on the Wind	Plugged In	02:48
Faded Films	Jack in the Box	Faded Years	05:06
Broken Silence	Nightstalking	Nightstalking b/w Through the Glass (picture sleeve)	03:47
Diodes	Time Damage (Sept. 1977 Toronto Sound Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	02:18
The Hurt	Engaged	Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)	03:11
Salty Seamen	Club Hot de Paris	In The Groove At Last	02:03
I Braineater	Gastly Dance	I Here, Where You	01:26
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	A Giant Starfish	Ohama aka The White Album	04:11

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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