Oliver Katcher founded WHATS THAT SOUND in July 2025. Born in New York and raised in Miami, he’s spent more than twenty years operating in the city’s institutional business world — and a lifetime chasing sound.
One of New York’s most accomplished commercial real estate brokers on the landlord side, Oliver spent fourteen years in-house with Aby Rosen’s RFR beginning in 2003. As Executive Vice President he was an instrumental part of the team operating and leasing a five-million-square-foot portfolio of the city’s best properties, closing more than 500 commercial lease transactions of every size, shape, and type across some 37 locations.
Alongside the agency work, he leased a 500,000-square-foot New York retail portfolio for six years and ran leasing for 980 Madison — the city’s most prominent art-gallery building — for five, developing its third floor into a successful multi-gallery international destination just beneath Larry Gagosian’s New York offices and uptown gallery. In 2016 he founded Indigo Property Holding LLC, a tenant-rep brokerage he continues to operate today.
The label is the newest chapter, and the most personal one. A well-regarded figure in New York nightlife and hospitality — and a respected mover in the nightclub and DJ performance world — Oliver founded WHATS THAT SOUND in July 2025 and released its debut record, wish you well, by singer-songwriter Chaz Marcus.
The obsession with sound runs deep: his love of audio led him to build one of the world’s great McIntosh high-fidelity systems. The label holds itself to the same standard. Signal over noise.
Over the past twenty years Oliver has carefully built a respected art collection, one piece at a time — more than a hundred works, and he knows almost every artist he collects personally. He plays tennis and competitive 9-ball, races custom cars, and rides a collection of custom BMX bikes. He lives between the Upper East Side and East Hampton.
Founder & CEO. Independent record label based in New York.
Founder. Tenant-rep focused real estate brokerage.
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