Apollo Studio w/Amba b2b Connie Yin, Chris Love, Frank Zanatta, Joe Pompeo

Apollo Studio72 Apollo St Brooklyn, NY 11222 · Map

This night happened — Sat 11 Jul

Javier Pedraza Polo

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Who was billed7 artists

In the order the promoter listed them.

Set times were not published.

Most of these pairings were meeting for the first time that night.

the pairs that have met

16 of the 21 pairings on this bill were first meetings.

KANZE and Vin Gioffre — 5 shared bills before that night, first on Sun 27 Apr 2025.
Chris Love and Vin Gioffre — 3 shared bills before that night, first on Sat 4 Oct 2025.
Chris Love and KANZE — 3 shared bills before that night, first on Sat 4 Oct 2025.
Connie and KANZE — 3 shared bills before that night, first on Sat 8 Mar 2025.
Connie and Vin Gioffre — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Sat 28 Feb 2026.

Who they are

Amba
New York City · 38 bookings since Sep 2023
“Brooklyn-based artist”
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Recently at MAD Radio NYC, The Local NY, Dada · often with Derrik Muñoz, Sanabria, Camila Wolf, none of them here that night
Connie
New York City · 45 bookings since Aug 2023
“Connie Yin has been a major contributor to New York City’s underground electronic scene for almost 20 years.”
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Connie Yin has been a major contributor to New York City’s underground electronic scene for almost 20 years. With a deep fluid mix of forward thinking 4/4 styles and a defined rhythmic sensibility that flows from her alter egos as a thumping rock drummer and newbie bass player, Connie is a steady crowd favorite and an accomplished pro who always brings the goods. Whether it is as resident DJ for ReSolute, one of the world’s hottest itinerant underground parties, or on the road touring from Brazil to Dubai, Connie’s aptitude and vigorous devotion to her craft have earned her turns alongside a litany of techno’s best. Connie uses her own success to inspire others to enter the world of DJing. To date she has privately trained 15 students. Connie has been producing electronic music since 2009, under the ‘Constar’ moniker as well as Connie Yin, with a dozen releases available digitally and on vinyl, under labels such as Bedrock Records. Currently, she is producing with long time friend Karina Chaczabian as C&K, with recent vinyl releases; and J Gabriel, on various projects. Connie’s love for music spans beyond electronic music; for the last 20 years, Connie has always been involved with at least one band at all times. Current live music projects include songwriting and drumming with post punk band Jilted Lover; playing bass guitar with rock/punk band Bricklip; creating techno synthpop in synth & machine heavy band Chic Choc; and playing keyboards and drums in Bover Cand - an 80s cover band....and also making music videos, her newfound passion. Connie also enjoys romantic strolls on the beach, candlelit dinners, and cuddling.
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Their RA profile lists Bedrock Records, Airdrop Records, NOSI Music, Jyre Records and 3 more.
Recently at Friends & Lovers, Apollo Studio, MAD Radio NYC · often with Amy Jor, Maksim, Asha Jasz, none of them here that night
Chris Love
New York City · 6 bookings since May 2025
“Chris Love has been a staple in the NYC House Music scene since the beginning.”
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Chris Love has been a staple in the NYC House Music scene since the beginning. He’s the founder of New York City's famed S.O.U.P parties, and the legendary event production company Stuck On Earth(Boo parties), which was the force behind NYC’s largest and most successful events over the last two decades. In addition to being one of New York’s strongest promotional forces, Chris is a world class DJ. Chris has been burning up dance floors with his mixture of deep, jacking, tech, & soulful House music since the early 90’s. His vast knowledge of House music allows him to navigate through different styles of House music, dropping everything from classic’s to unreleased music from today’s most cutting edge producers. Chris has held residencies at some of NYC’s most infamous venues like The Limelight and Roxy, and now plays guest slot’s at the biggest club’s in the nation. Chris’s latest venture is a monthly SOUP residency at NYC’s legendary Sullivan Room and guest spots at NYC's #1 club Cielo
Their RA profile lists Avioground Records.
Recently at Moondog Hifi, Eden NYC, Pier 36 · often with Sid Vaga, Dilly, Alexander Technique, none of them here that night
Joe Pompeo
New York City
“Part of the next wave of emerging talent coming out of the NYC area, Joe Pompeo has been making an impact on the scene both with his productions and his DJ sets.”
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Part of the next wave of emerging talent coming out of the NYC area, Joe Pompeo has been making an impact on the scene both with his productions and his DJ sets. With deep groovy New York feel, his tracks lead him to sign to such labels as Cajual Records, Salted music, Beatdown, Nervous, and many more, His first Salted release “Try to Love Me” was remixed by Miguel Migs and licensed to Miguel’s second “Get Salted” mix compilation. His consistent sets have also put him in the booth net to top names such as Derrick Carter, Kenny Dope, and Mark Farina just to name a few. Joe is also a part of the famed SOUP NYC crew who have claimed residencies at some of New York’s top venues including Cielo, and TBA Brooklyn, with regular appearances at Output and other east coast US venues. This is sure to be a breakout year for Joe filled with new production, new projects, and new dance floors.
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Their RA profile lists Cajual Records, Beatdown, Salted Music, 294 Records and 1 more.
KANZE
Paris, France · 40 bookings since Dec 2024
“Born and raised in Paris by an Italian mother and German-American father, Alex Kanze grew up in a multicultural and multilingual household where wax ruled.”
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Born and raised in Paris by an Italian mother and German-American father, Alex Kanze grew up in a multicultural and multilingual household where wax ruled. His father played Jazz records from artists like Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck and Thelonious Monk as well as classical music such as Bach, Stravinsky, Chopin, Debussy and George Gershwin. His mother introduced him toRock’n’Roll, Funk, Soul, R&B and Disco with James Brown, The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, The Bee Gees, ABBA and Gloria Gaynor. Alex also became fully fluent in French, Italian, German and English by the age of 8 and learned Spanish later at 16. His parents noticed that Alex developed a precise ear for music, tone, language and pronunciation because of his upbringing.Therefore they were quick to enroll him in classical piano and guitar lessons at a very young age.Despite his parents’ push to develop a musical education, Alex joined a fine arts school in the heart of Paris but continued his music lessons. At 16 one of his guitar teachers introduced him to Gypsy Jazz and Alex quickly started to perform and adore the energetic jazz genre. During his early teens, Alex would often bring his guitar to the Palais de Tokyo or Les Quais de Jussieux where he would meet up and make friends with people from Morocco, Algeria, Senegal, and Mali..Together, they would blend the guitar, djembe, darbuka and didgeridoo to substitute the bass and played to random crowds from sunset to sunrise. In 2009 at the age of 18, Alex left Paris on his own to move to NYC without knowing any friends, connections or relatives there.He strongly believed that the world was beautiful because of its diversity and wanted to be in a city even more international than Paris to pursue his creative aspirations. He initially missed Paris but didn’t regret his decision and found solace in playing French Gypsy jazz first in places like the Washington Square Park, Tompkins Square Park or Union Square like he used to back in Paris. He rapidly moved upwards to play at places such as Fadas, the Keep, and Radegast. In 2011 Alex moved from Crown Heights to Bushwick where he was introduced to new cultures and sounds such asPuerto Rican Salsa, Mexican Cumbia and Dominican Bachata. The influence from salsa and 70s West African music persuaded him to pick up the trumpet around 2014.During that time, Alex met some of the founders of NYC’s underground minimal techno and house scene, most notably Resolute where he started to learn about electronic music and DJing.For a while Alex would play Gypsy Jazz guitar or trumpet jazz at cafes in the evening and at night, DJ at clubs and warehouses.However, he realized he wanted to have the endurance and energy a DJ could bring but still have the musical and melodic interaction with the crowd that he felt from came from playing instruments. From 2023 onwards, Alex solely played live using synthesizers and Octatrack samplers to record and loop his trumpet live with pre-recorded piano and percussion from his studio and started to blend electronic drums and beats with Latin and Afro percussion andmelodic jazz trumpet. He now plays regularly in various venues in NYC such as Keybar, Moondog, H0l0, Apollo Studio, where he fully improvises and plays anything and everything he came across during his lifelong musical journey.
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Recently at Moondog Hifi, Apollo Studio, Hart Bar · often with Jack Tonelli, DBL_BBL, Quentin, none of them here that night
Frank Zanatta
Vin Gioffre
9 bookings since Apr 2025
Recently at Moondog Hifi, Bar Milagro · often with Sid Vaga, Sameer, Dilly, none of them here that night