- WOMAN: What is light?
Who controls light?
- MAN: You are, at the end of the day, playing an instrument
and it just happens to be a computer and it controls lights.
- WOMAN: Who is Gabe Fraboni?
Who is Martin Garrix?
- MARTIN: Gabe and I have been pushing each other
from the moment we started working with each other.
And he knows how I think and I know how he thinks
to a certain level because he's a genius.
- MAN 1: And intro starts in three, two, one.
- GABE: I've been working with Martin for three years now and...
his energy is really contagious.
It's kinda like this atmosphere we built of challenging each other.
That's how we evolve.
So from here, we're going to throw our entire show and start from scratch.
- We're going to introduce a complete new show during Amsterdam Dance Event.
New visuals, new lights...
completely redesigned and... it's wild.
- GABE: To enhance the music is to take what we are hearing sonically
and turn it into something tangible.
It's kind of learning to blend technology with art.
It's how to manipulate numbers to get something gorgeous.
All right, boys, so...
I wanna listen to this song and I wanna figure out...
what we are trying to communicate.
Yeah, I feel like it wants to be something that bounces, like, bup-bup-bup!
But also it needs to have some elements that kind of slash through you.
It's like, it's not like this is the drop cue the whole time.
It's only happening when the little...
- BERT: Well, he's definitely a crazy person.
Everybody's like, it might be something that's programmed and it happens.
That it's not Gabe that's doing it live at the moment.
Nobody does that.
- You will never ever see the same show twice
because it's always freestyle from my side,
free style from Gabe's side.
It's a crazy team.
- LORENZO: It's important that we maintained
this ability that gives Marty the freedom
to play whatever he wants in whatever order he wants.
So, we programed and designed a visual that lighting looks
to create a world for each song.
and then we improvise within that world.
- GABE: I've known since I was six years old
that this is what I wanted to do.
I was in a giant stadium...
and my dad was music producer
on the Rolling Stones Bridges to Babylon tour.
Patrick Gorgio for ZLD and I...
remember walking up to him and essentially asking him like,
what do you do?
He let me push one of the buttons
and, like, the whole place was lit up with strobe lights.
I was, like, "Oh, this is [bleep] cool!"
- GREG: His mind is moving at an unbelievably accelerated pace...
And so he always has to be doing something new, trying something new,
because Gabe is unapologetically a perfectionist
and he's gonna be his worst own enemy at the end of the day.
We are not cue stacking anything right now.
- Fine. - It's four o'clock in the mor--
He can go until six o'clock in the afternoon.
- Let's move. - OK.
- Ideas not... specifics" - Yeah, yeah, cool. That's all right.
- He's got so many ideas...
set in stone for himself.
The biggest thing is how to kind of weave in and out of all those big ideas.
- GABE: This is how we've always done it.
- GREG: A hundred percent. All right, cool.
So let's keep jamming. Keep jamming.
- GABE: It's something I realized really heavily last night
when Greg was just playing music and I was just running lasers...
I had completely shed that kind of self-consciousness and I was
just like, "Trust yourself and trust your instinct and just do it."
Sometimes it takes another person to remind me that I'm capable of that.
And... my older brother's mentally handicapped
and he doesn't ever really speak his emotions,
like, really at all.
GABE - MATTEO
The only way to communicate really with Matteo is on an energy level.
You have to feel his aura, you have to understand his energy
to know where he's at.
And that for me, I realized across my entire life
but specifically in my art form is...
I've been taught by him... because I'm feeling the music.
You know, I listen to a song
and that song immediately, the aesthetic and the texture,
and everything that I'm trying to accomplish...
kind of just clicks.
That seems good, right?
If we turn the lasers off and do the build with the spikeys...
then when this comes back in, it's got impact again.
- Yeah, we love this routine that it didn't go to the...
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- This is wicked. - 'Cause this is better
and it wouldn't be too busy doing this on...
Cue.
- MAN: I don't wanna be on stage during the show.
- GABE: What we do with our time is we try and have the sensory overload...
portions, but then we try and have these beautiful moments.
- MARTIN: He would tell me when...
this felt awkward during the show, fix it for next time.
And I would tell him if there's a wrong color or a mistake and...
that honesty pushes us both.
We want people to go home after the show not being able to sleep.
- GABE: I wanted to always be perfect.
And it's not ever perfect...
but that's my job.
Find a way to bring beauty into this chaos.
♪ Make up your mind and make up it soon ♪
- MAN: Everybody go!
- GABE: When you have that perfect storm
of possibility of working with an artist
who is as big as he is, who has an understanding
of how much value the production has to a show,
that's when really, truly groundbreaking amazing things can happen.