Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families (also known as 10k or 10kfreemen10k's official Myspace page Retrieved 20 August 2010) 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.Sounds Legit label website stating who holds copyright The name for Gilmore's project was inspired by the A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible webcomic of a similar title.A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible, 10,000 FREE MEN AND THEIR FAMILIES 12 November 2004 Gilmore currently performs live vocals in a hardcore punk style that transcends the regular boundaries of chipmusic,little-scale blog post, 6 June 2010 to form a style of music that Gilmore calls "chipunk".True Chip Till Death article "Another EP", 18 June 2010 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.Square Sounds Festival Website Accessed March 2016
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.True Chip Till Death article "MKE OR BRK", 1 March 2010 Both MKE OR BRK8bitpeoples webstore MKE OR BRK item and Another8bitpeoples webstore Another item were stocked by 8bitpeoples, a prominent chipmusic label. The Rite Now single was later stocked by the Milwaukee-based label, Radiograffiti.
Solo Releases
EPs MKE OR BRK (2010, Independent CD) Another (2010, Independent CD)
Singles Rite Now (2011, Independent 5" Vinyl) posted Thursday, 12 May 2011
Compilations (Triskaidekaphobia) 13,000.00 Milliseconds (2008, Ratskin Records, CD Compilation)Discogs entry "Various - (Triskaidekaphobia) 13,000.00 Milliseconds" Progfest 09, The Best of Aussie Prog (2009, Birds Robe, CD Compilation)OzProg online store item Porgfest 09 CD Reformat: A Tribute To Bit Shifter's Information Chase (2011, 8bitpeoples, CD Compilation)8bitpeoples online store V/A - Reformat: A Tribute To Bit Shifter's Information Chase item ...And Then They Remixed Everything (2013, Birds Robe, CD/Digital Remix album for Sleepmakeswaves' ...And So We Destroyed Everything)sleepmakeswaves Bandcamp page accessed March 2016
Web Releases and Demos 0.999... = 1 (2007)Glitch City release list featuring 0.999... = 1 The Pokémon Song (2007)Glitch City release list featuring The Pokémon Song Glitch Village Vol. 1 (2007)Glitch City release list featuring GV01 Mario Paint EP (2008) PixlCrushr / Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families Split (2008)Glitch City release list featuring PixlCrushr/TTFM+TF Dot.AY / Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families Split (2008) 10 April 2008 Glitch Village Vol. 2 (2008)Glitch City release list featuring GV02 DMGMite-01: The Australian Chipmusic Compilation, Volume I (2008) Chipsters: The Australian Chipmusic compilation, Volume II (2009) Blip Festival 2011 Live Recording (2011)Free Music Archive Blip Festival 2011-Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families
References
External links Official website