Nico and Tony would eventually become neighbours in the Plateau, an area with a sizeable presence from the motherland. A few years after they’d started new lives across the Atlantic, they met Nico, who thinks he probably met them both at a scratch session. Tony then moved to Montreal about a decade ago, and Ben followed him, where they’ve continued their working relationship in music. “We met in Brittany, in fact, at an electronic music festival, and then we became friends. Then I moved to (Ben’s region of) Normandy,” says Tony. “I used to live in the west part of France, below Brittany. Ben and Tony have known each other since the mid-aughts, though, and they’ve been scratching together ever since. Joining forces in September 2021, all three members originally hail from different parts of France, but formed in Montreal. Tony and Ben have also had experience as sound designers prior to Turbine - Ben in video games, and Tony in advertising and movies/TV. Ben produces almost every track Turbine makes, while Tony is more focused on the technical side of things, and Nico calls himself mostly a “stage guy” with a solid DJing background. They’d also spell their group name as TBN, an acronym standing for Tony, Benjamin and Nicolas (“Turbine” is also the name of a French electronic subgenre of music). The group - consisting of Tony Ragon, Benjamin Bongert and Nicolas Rame - take their name partly since turbines represent a circular movement similar to them spinning and scratching on their turntables, and partly from the verb “turbiner” often used in France (which means “working a lot”). Three Montreal-based DJs/turntablists known as Turbine are actively helping to keep that legacy intact.
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