Music Back © May Recordings 2012 Site Map Back to Top    The DJ and producer Jon May was born in 1987 in Hoexter, Germany. His real name is Wigbert Franze. Since 2008 he lives in Frankfurt am Main. Jon had early contact to electronic music by his older brother. So he started DJing at the age of thirteen. When Jon was fifteen years old he took part in an DJ contest and covered the third place. At this time he mainly played Tech-House and Progressive-Trance. During his personal development Jon collected many impressions and it lasted some time till he found his own style. On this way he was musically influenced by many famous artists like Sven Väth, Umek, Anthony Rother or Carl Cox. Jon tried his first productions in the year 2003. The label Technoline was interested in the young talent and his first record „Revolution EP“ appeared in 2004. It reached the second place in the Web-Records Techno-Charts for eight weeks. In autumn 2006 Jon and his brother established their own label wich is called „May Recordings“. The first vinyl they published was Jon’s second release „Play the music EP“. Jon often worked with different artists to inspire each other. In the last years Jon was in search of his own individual style. He likes to find a combination between House, Tech-House, Techno and Minimal. Jon has many ideas and he takes as much time as possible for his productions. His precision and the passion to electronic music the audience can always hear.