Ten Thousand Free Men and Their Families

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Instruments Nintendo Game Boy Website 10kfreemen.com Origin Sydney, Australia		Years active 2007–present Members Thomas Gilmore
Albums 2011-05-20: Blip Festival 2011, Eyebeam, New York, NY, USA, Another, MKE OR BRK Genres Electronic dance music, Chiptune, Punk rock Record labels Free Music Archive, Bird's Robe Records Similar Bit Shifter, sleepmakeswaves, Nullsleep, Anamanaguchi, 65daysofstatic

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Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families (also known as 10k or 10kfreemen) is a musical project of Sydney based Game Boy music composer and performer Thomas Gilmore, who began writing music with the Nintendo Game Boy in 2007. Shortly after in 2008, Gilmore and Dot.AY from Brisbane started a blog documenting and promoting Australian chipmusic called GameBoyAustralia. In early 2011, Gilmore and Eugene Davoren-Britton launched a vinyl-only chipmusic label called Sounds Legit. The name for Gilmore's project was inspired by the A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible webcomic of a similar title. Gilmore currently performs live vocals in a hardcore punk style that transcends the regular boundaries of chipmusic, to form a style of music that Gilmore calls "chipunk". In March 2016, after a period of silence from the act, a live band manifestation of Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families played at Square Sounds Festival Melbourne.

Ten thousand free men their families live at blip festival australia 2012

Discography

Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families has released many recordings with netlabels in the past, but the discography listed on his website only includes releases that were released physically. Gilmore has stated this is because his physical releases are a huge departure from his previous work that he now considers to be demos. Both MKE OR BRK and Another were stocked by 8bitpeoples, a prominent chipmusic label. The Rite Now single was later stocked by the Milwaukee-based label, Radiograffiti.

EPs

MKE OR BRK (2010, Independent CD)

Another (2010, Independent CD)

Singles

Rite Now (2011, Independent 5" Vinyl)

Compilations

(Triskaidekaphobia) 13,000.00 Milliseconds (2008, Ratskin Records, CD Compilation)

Progfest 09, The Best Of Aussie Prog (2009, Birds Robe, CD Compilation)

Reformat: A Tribute To Bit Shifter's Information Chase (2011, 8bitpeoples, CD Compilation)

...and then they remixed everything (2013, Birds Robe, CD/Digital Remix album for sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything)

Web Releases and Demos

0.999... = 1 (2007)

The Pokémon Song (2007)

Glitch Village Vol. 1 (2007)

Mario Paint EP (2008)

PixlCrushr / Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families Split (2008)

Dot.AY / Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families Split (2008)

Glitch Village Vol. 2 (2008)

DMGMite-01: The Australian Chipmusic Compilation, Volume I (2008)

Chipsters: The Australian Chipmusic compilation, Volume II (2009)

Blip Festival 2011 Live Recording (2011)

Songs

MPDJ2008
Leaving Home2011-05-20: Blip Festival 2011 - Eyebeam - New York - NY - USA · 2011
Hey - HoAnother · 2010

References

Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families Wikipedia

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