The Mercury Program is a band formed in 1997 in New York, US by Dave Lebleu, Sander Travisan, and Tom Reno. They released their self-titled debut in 1999 as a trio. In 2000 Whit Travisano joined the band and the line-up has been unchanged ever since. In the same year they released their second album, "From the Vapor of Gasoline", as well as recording an EP later the same year called "All the Suits Began to Fall Off", which was released in 2001. In 2002 the band went to the studio to record their third album, "A Data Learn the Language", and was released the same year. After touring around the US and in Japan The Mercury Program made a split CD/DVD with Maserati and was released in late 2003. Since then the band has taken a break