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.

Artist	Track	Title	Length
UJ3RK5	Hash Dreams of the Everyday Housewife	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:26
Plugs	I Saw Her Today	Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today	03:04
Voxx, The	Flower Boy DVB	Flower Boy b/w Flower Boy DVB	04:47
Moev	Cracked Mirror	Cracked Mirror (EP)	05:57
Drastic Measures	Flowers	ST	03:18
Russell, Benjamin	Power of Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:37
Martha And The Muffins	Boy Without Filters	This Is The Ice Age	04:58
Melinite	Seasoning	Push The Button And Run!	01:23
Breeding Ground	In the Sun	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:22
Billy Butt & The Brats	Surveillance	Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No	03:21
Age of Mirrors	The Day the Earth Stands Still - Breathless	Mirage	05:44
Scissors	All This And More	ST	02:46
Compilation	Don Bregg - Sounds So Nice	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:51
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:06
Censure	Foxy Lady	Foxy Lady b/w Amour	04:24
Preison's Shade	Tearing Down the Walls	Race Me Home (EP)	04:52
Glamorcult	Mine Is The Maiden	The Stone Sessions	04:16
Big Dog	Monkey See, Monkey Do	99 Change Hands	01:52
Tau Ceti	Bathed in Dark Light (rhythm version)	So Far	05:23
IQ	Sixth World	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:59
End, The	My Paradise	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	02:59
Contradance	Black Preppies	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	02:28
Martha And The Muffins	World Without Borders	Danseparc	03:08
Inner Sanction	Hush	Shake Up - Fly Down	03:20
Martha And The Muffins	Primal Weekend	Trance and Dance	05:14
Compilation	Arrows - Treat Her Right	Toronto Calling	02:52
Spoons	For Tran	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:45
Drama	Anna King	Loneliness	03:04
I, Braineater	I Am	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:07
UJ3RK5	The Locator	ST (EP)	03:11
Awake The Echoes	Sherry	Normal Life	04:20
Fictions	Praying for the World	ST	03:06
Cannon Heath Down	Je Suis Certain	Heart-Throb Companion	02:03
Glamorcult	Would it be Over	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	03:29
Rational Youth	Ring the Bells	Cold War Nightlife	05:13
Barking Boys	Cool It Down	The Yes Girls	04:11
Tenants	What's In It For Me?	ST	02:43
Meadmore, Glen	Just a Girl	Chicken & Biscuits	05:57
Handful of Snowdrops	Trust	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	04:24
Eight Seconds	Tell Diane	Big Houses	04:45
Second Thoughts	Integrity	Integrity b/w Wound Up	03:19
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
Age of Mirrors	Wave About Her	Mirage	04:33
Kinetic Ideals	Absurdity	Reason (EP)	05:23
Streetcar Named Desire	Illustrated Man	Life Begins	05:25
Two Men Laughing	Imprisoned Lorri	Imprisoned Lorri b/w Dancing in Moscow (picture sleeve)	03:39
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind (OHMix)	Space and Time	04:55
Inner Sanction	White Boy Rap	Dancematic-Automatic	05:58
Government	Get You Sleepin'	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:17
Direktive 17	Jericho	ST (EP)	03:58
Rex Chainbelt	Talk It Over	Foreign Movie	02:15
Escalators	Double Talk	ST	05:17
Entrance System	No Relative	Imperfect Image	03:19
Iko	Subway 49	83	04:53
Government	Portrait	How Many Fingers?	02:36
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:49
Glamorcult	Afterglow	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:44
Corsage	Jackson	ST	03:41
Interpol	When Rock 'n' Roll Was in the Hole	ST	02:26
Low Fun	Words We Left Behind	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	03:41
Diodes	Nowhere Fast (Aug 1977 Crash 'N' Burn Demo)	Rarities	02:50
Compilation	Kinetic Ideals - The Whip (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:21
Diodes	Curiosity Girl (1977 previously unreleased version)	Rarities	02:51
Kinetic Ideals	Together	A Personal View (EP)	05:54
Within Gothic Towers	Is This My Moment Of Glory	Within Gothic Towers	04:01
Drama	Human Question	Loneliness	02:38
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	A Giant Starfish	Ohama aka The White Album	04:11
Neurons	New Location	Midnight Meetings b/w New Location	00:07
Meadmore, Glen	Blissful Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:24
Censure	Amour	Foxy Lady b/w Amour	04:33
Villains	I Don't Care	Go Crazy	03:09
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	TV	Ohama aka The White Album	04:33
I, Braineater	1980 More	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:57
Compilation	Voodoo - Stormy Eyes	Toronto Calling	04:34
Rational Youth	Close to Nature	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:43
Voxx, The	Flower Boy	Flower Boy b/w Flower Boy DVB	03:01
Front, The	Simple Dreams	Gina's at a Party	03:39
Government	Flat Tire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	02:25
Quasi Hands	Parallel Lines	ST	03:19
Young, John Paul	Summertime!	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:29
Glamorcult	After the Battle	Early Glamour	03:12
Images In Vogue	Save It	In The House	03:38
Mettle	Evening Ocean	ST	02:58
Home Grown	Up the Wall	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:45
Government	On the Prowl	Electric Eye	04:39
Friendly Fire	I Saw Her Smile	Junior Senility EP	02:31
Nasty Habits	Cleopatra	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:27
Spoons	Trade Winds	Arias & Symphonies	02:15
39 Steps	American Woman	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:11
Corsage	She's Become a Memory	ST	04:06
Age of Mirrors	Glass and Crystal Lives	Screenplay	04:16
Front, The	You Can't Do That	Underworld	03:54
Russell, Benjamin	Out of it Girl	Madman	01:37
Martha And The Muffins	Cheesies and Gum	Metro Music	03:09
Family Plot	Old Refrain	Convictions	04:09
True Confessions	26264	ST	02:15
Land of Giants	Thing Called Love	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	06:57
Spoons	South American Vacation	Arias & Symphonies	04:12
Sex Church	Put Away	Growing Over	02:00
Design	Sayonara (remix)	No Turning Back	04:10

New Wave Post Punk Wave

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Martha And The Muffins - Danseparc

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

Gas, The - Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)

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Vital Sines - Subway Suicide/ Erik the Generik b/w Sex & Babies (picture sleeve)

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Harcourt, James - Emotional Blackmail

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Extras - Bit Parts

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Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

Catherine - Operating System b/w Operating System

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - I Fear What I Might Hear

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Zipper - Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls

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Odd Man Out - Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)

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Regulators - What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)

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NEO A4 - ST

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Kinetic Ideals - Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways

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Breeding Ground - Wintergarden (EP)

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Second Thoughts - Integrity b/w Wound Up

IQ - Burn Me b/w Sixth World

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Government - How Many Fingers?

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Billy Butt & The Brats - Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No

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End, The - Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)

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Numbers - Add Up

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - Midway b/w Thin Lines

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Dancespeak - Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)

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Golden Calgarians - New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)

Channel Five - ST (EP)

Nevermen - The Monitor LP

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Tabby K - Summertime b/w Wind Or Water

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Diodes - Action-Reaction

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Tyro - A Little More Time (EP)

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Land of Giants - Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks

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