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
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
Kaméléon	Insomnuit	ST	04:26
D.A.R.Y.L.	Time 2 Start Again	Time 2 Start Again b/w Time 2 Start Again (Garage Mix)	04:35
A Day in Paris	wItHoUt yOu	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:19
Start	Out of the Tube	Hey You	02:27
Barking Boys	Ghost Story	The Yes Girls	04:09
Braineaters	London Town	Planet X	01:24
Drama	Traffic	Loneliness	02:53
Moral Lepers	Shadow	Turn to Stone	03:03
Martha And The Muffins	One Day in Paris	This Is The Ice Age	04:20
K	A Thousand Years	Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)	04:13
Lou Champagne System	Broken Hearts	No Visible Means	03:31
Chemicals	Out of My Mind	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	03:11
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News IV	I Fear What I Might Hear	07:58
Austra	Darken Her Horse	Feel it Break	05:21
Motive	Don’t You Know	Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)	03:21
Rob Bryanton	Another Day, Another Show	Alcohol And Other Drugs	03:15
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:50
I Braineater	I Am	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:07
Cannon Heath Down	Safe As Milk	Heart-Throb Companion	03:35
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:02
Diodes	Coma	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
NEO A4	Desire	The Warmer Side of You	04:02
Degrees of Freedom	August is an Angel	China	04:27
B-Sides	Emotions	Red to Black	04:11
Lawn	Over the Top	Peace in the Valley	03:00
The Scene (2)	Meet the Man	Only in Paradise	03:54
Lunasam	Redhead	Redhead	03:52
Direktive 17	Run With Me	ST (EP)	04:35
Family Plot	Gravedigger	Convictions	02:19
Preison's Shade	She Wants Me	Race Me Home (EP)	05:54
Handful of Snowdrops	Face to Face (Interim Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	06:33
Images In Vogue	She's a Garden	Educated Man	02:48
Diodes	No Time to Cry (1981 Previously Unreleased) (CD only)	Rarities	03:43
Salty Seamen	One Chance Left	In The Groove At Last	02:33
Villains	Wendy's Melody	Go Crazy	03:47
Ceramic Hello	Staticarnival	The Absence of a Canary	01:18
Glamorcult	All That Matters	Shadows From The Past	03:39
Benjamin Russell	Power of Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:37
Nevermen	Living in the Past	The Monitor LP	04:17
Preison's Shade	Don't Leave Me Alone	Race Me Home (EP)	05:11
Reactors	Alien Radio	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:22
Generra	Don’t Cut Me	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	03:57
Einstein	Elusive Temptress	Sex and Science	04:48
Rex Chainbelt	Rich Man	Foreign Movie	02:52
James Harcourt	Eye of the Needle	Emotional Blackmail	02:54
Extras	Don’t Put Me On Hold	The Road to Zambando	02:52
Volts	These Things Remain	Plugged In	03:57
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Educated Man	03:54
Diodes	Hot Sand (1981 Remixed Version 2017)	Rarities	03:18
Andrew Matheson	My Girls (Pin-Up Parade)	Monterey Shoes	03:52
Eight Seconds	Wings	Almacantar	04:46
Einstein	Man-Child	Sex and Science	03:38
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Moev	Sweet Nothings	Dusk and Desire	04:33
Psyche	Salvation Stranger	The Influence	03:54
Lou Champagne System	Another Dimension	No Visible Means	04:50
Shanghai Lil	Nirvana - Oh What a Night	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:57
Informer	I Know You Know	I Know You Know b/w Hold It	03:09
Martha And The Muffins	Teddy the Dink	Trance and Dance	03:29
Pukka Orchestra	Listen to the Radio	ST	03:48
Degrees of Freedom	In This Room	China	03:41
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Midnite News	08:11
FM109	Ecoeure' ecoure'	ST	01:35
Faded Films	The Top	Faded Years	02:43
Channel Five	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
Streetcar Named Desire	Yesteryear	Life Begins	02:58
Men Without Hats	Utter Space	Folk of the 80's (EP)	02:44
Rex Chainbelt	Mon Ami	Foreign Movie	02:22
Andrew Matheson	Can't Stop the Angels	Monterey Shoes	06:57
Modern Minds	Slap in the Face	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
Living End (1)	Anaesthesia Grin	ST	03:29
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lonely Heart Dance	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:09
The Front	Robbery	Underworld	04:21
Compilation	Glamatron - Klüb	The Circuit	02:28
B-Sides	No Can Do	Red to Black	03:00
B-Sides	Much Too Serious	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	02:44
Psyche	Children Carry Knives	Insomnia Theatre	04:46
Compilation	Dave Howard Singers - Road Warrior	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	08:01
A Day in Paris	Under	Prey	04:21
100 Flowers	Nothing is Hard	21st Guessing	04:31
Eight Seconds	Tell Diane	Big Houses	04:45
Doppler Bros.	I Wanna Write for the Muzak Man	Totally Impractical	03:58
Age of Mirrors	Raiders of the Heart	Screenplay	03:39
Diodes	Strange Time	Action-Reaction	02:53
Bündock	Stand Still	Société Anonyme	02:45
Diodes	Heat or the Beat	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:38
Glamorcult	Yes, See Has the Afterglow	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:32
Deserters	Protection	ST	03:20
Breeding Ground	Reunion	Reunion // Slaughter	04:54
Red Herring	Taste Tests	Taste Tests	02:50
UJ3RK5	Booty Dread	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	02:49
Glen Meadmore	Do Me Baby	Chicken & Biscuits	05:01
I Braineater	Funtime	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:24
Robert Armes	Nearly Out of Control	Nearly Out of Control b/w Radio Active	03:35
Glen Meadmore	Hen Party	Chicken & Biscuits	05:22
Drastic Measures	Hotsy Totsy - Postlude	ST	04:25
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't Look Now	Spunker	03:44
Glamorcult	If Only You Knew	A Price To Paris	03:33
NEO A4	Rescue Me	ST	03:59

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Bonus Boys - Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time

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Cry - ST

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Friendly Fire - Junior Senility EP

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