Jeff Hillard and Jason Whitcomb met during high school in Tampa, Florida. After graduating, Whitcomb and his friend Dan Bates began working on music and asked Hillard to join. The trio played in several live-only incarnations before distilling into Non-Aggression Pact with Hillard as keyboardist/drummer, Whitcomb as keyboardist/vocalist, and additional support on bass and piano from Bates. At the time, Hillard was also a DJ at a local alternative music club where a fellow DJ encouraged him to contact Chase, who was working at the time with
Cargo Records, in the interest of securing a deal for the band. Chase passed the reference to Alex Kane who had recently started his General Purpose Cassettes (G.P.C.) label. Two cassettes worth of material from the band were released by GPC as split cassettes in 1991 and 1992 with
Mentallo and the Fixer and
Xorcist, respectively. In 1993, GPC released the band's first full album,
Gesticulate, which was the first CD release by the label. It was more guitar driven, however much of it was sampled including a riff from
Van Halen appearing in a song. Five years later,
Broadcast-Quality Belligerence was released. This marked a change in production with a shift to PC based recording software instead of their previous "Live Take" approach via DAT. This also appears to be the band's final commercial release. Newer material was released on their MP3.com page until the site changed formats. ==Discography==