Wow, thanks!
No, it was not inspired by the Labyrinth, nor the DFAM although people seem to think so. 
It’s actually inspired by the Boss DR-110, believe it or not – one day I was sitting in my studio room and had just dug up my old DR-110. I was thinking about how nice and cute its interface is, especially the way it shows all the pattern data on the LCD display.
I was kind of thinking, how would this look like as a piece of software, like if you did something inspired by that sequencer? So I sketched up a little grid sequencer. Later, on a train up to Gothenburg, I ended up fleshing it out to have the basics of a sequencer with this sort of instant pattern switching etc.
It really came out of thinking about the M4L format and some lessons learned from past products, how to improve and make better sequencers etc… At the end of the train ride I had a pretty nice little simple sequencer with sample accuracy.
I kept working on it a little here and there, just as a fun personal project. At some point I felt like the design was nice but the lack of expression in it (it was kind of just like a DR-110, playing static sounds) was boring and I felt like it could be something more appealing to other people.
So I thought about making it more focused on synthesis, and the idea of splitting it up into two distinct channels that could sort of inter-modulate came from some patches I made years and years ago… And I just kept iterating on it.
The DFAM did pop up in the back of my head, but it wasn’t like a direct source of inspiration or something that I tried to replicate. As for the Labyrinth I’ve never tried it! At some point during development I actually bought a DFAM just to see if it was close to what I was working on, and I totally got why people are so into it. I think I increased the bass in my oscillators slightly after trying it! 