By the late ’90s the pair were already making use of self-created software tools The original concept for Live has its roots in the way Behles and Henke were making music. There was always a way to play, have a gig, and always an audience. “Large parts of the city were vacated or so run down that nobody could live there, but it was intact enough that you could set up an illegal club – and that happened all over the place. The whole political situation was fragile, there was so much uncertainty and unclarity, but in that openness a lot could happen. “In hindsight it was much less stable than one thought, being in it. “You have to imagine, the place was in a total state of limbo because the wall had just come down,” Behles tells us. As well as birthing the genre-bending dub techno of Basic Channel and classic albums like Porter Ricks’ Biokinetics, it also provided the roots of several big music tech brands, including Native Instruments, launched in Berlin in 1996, and Ableton, which Behles founded with fellow developer Bernd Roggendorf in ’99. The Berlin scene in the ’90s was evidently fertile ground for forward-looking music-making. Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke as Monolake (Image credit: Ulf Bueschleb)
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