Sacha Mattey: Darkroom Records & Billie Eilish

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

Music Interviews, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 107 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In this episode of Music Matters, host Darrell Craig Harris sits down with Sacha Mattey, Head of Business Partnerships at Darkroom Records, the powerhouse label behind global superstar Billie Eilish. Tune in for an inside look at the business of modern music, strategic artist partnerships, and the inner workings of one of today's most influential record labels. About Sacha Sacha Mattey is the Lead of Business Partnerships at Darkroom Records, where he drives the company's strategic growth across finance, operations, and dealmaking. Overseeing internal and external financial transparency, Mattey plays a central role in building the infrastructure behind one of music's most influential independent labels. At Darkroom, Mattey has led and supported high-impact initiatives across the roster, including securing brand partnerships for Waylon Wyatt with leading lifestyle brands such as Wrangler and Ariat-spanning major activations at Stagecoach and custom Wrangler outfitting for Zach Bryan's Hyde Park show in London. He also played a key role in structuring John Summit's Experts Only partnership with Darkroom, leading deal conversations alongside label manager Toby Andrews, building financial forecasts, and establishing the internal infrastructure and team to successfully onboard and scale the venture. Website www.DarkRoomRecords.com About Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris The Music Matters Podcast is hosted by Darrell Craig Harris, a globally published music journalist, professional musician, and Sports Illustrated photographer. Music Matters is now available on Spotify, iTunes, Podbean, and more. Each week, Darrell interviews renowned artists, musicians, music journalists, and insiders from the music industry. Currently, over 1,000,000 global downloads in 40 countries. Visit us at: www.MusicMattersPodcast.com Follow us on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/musicmattersdh For inquiries, contact: musicmatterspodcastshow@gmail.com Support our mission via PayPal: www.paypal.me/payDarrell voice over intro by Nigel J. Farmer

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0:00.0	Welcome to Music Matters podcast with Daryl Craig Harris, talking about all things music,
0:09.6	with celebrities, artists, music business insiders, and more.
0:28.1	Sasha Matty, how are you doing today? I'm doing fantastic. How are you? I'm very good. So you're coming to us from Los Angeles. You are the head of partnerships and strategy with Dark Room Records. And probably your
0:36.6	most well-known artist would be Billy Ilish,
0:39.3	but you have several others as well. So tell me about that and how long you've been with the
0:43.6	label, how that happened. So yeah, the label's a fantastic label, really focused on artist development,
0:50.3	finding artists at early stages in their career and working with them slowly and steadily
0:56.6	building foundations to hopefully bring their dreams to truth and make them global superstars.
1:02.9	I've been with Darkroom for two and a half years and it's been a whirlwind of a time.
1:08.8	Learn a lot, moved very quickly and yeah, really was able to build a family in L.A.
1:16.8	And across America by working at this company.
1:20.1	So, yeah, it's been amazing.
1:21.9	Yeah, and what you do with the label in obviously developing young artists and new artists, which is a part of your mission.
1:29.1	But also you work on strategic partnerships with finance, with companies, putting that all
1:35.8	together. If you could, talk a little bit about what that process is like and how that works
1:41.9	for you in the company. Yeah, you know, I was always obsessed with business growing up.
1:49.0	I always wanted to create companies and understand that ins and outs kind of the back end operations.
1:56.0	As very fortunate, I got accepted into Waltonton school and there I studied business economics
2:02.6	and entrepreneurship and so when it comes to what I do specifically I work across three main
2:12.5	verticals at the company I'm less artist facing and more well known to the managers of the artist. But I'll
2:20.0	overlook one is information. So I try to be across all information within the company and within
2:26.1	the industry and dissipate that across darkroom so that we're performing to our bestest
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