Daytrotter is a recording studio, music venue and subscription-based music discovery website located in

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, United States. It hosts recording sessions with

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acts. The original studio in

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, was founded in 2006 by

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. It later moved to

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and in 2019 moved to Atlanta, Georgia. The sessions can be compared to that of a radio station's lounge recordings, where musicians passing through the town can record live in the studio. Given their tendency to offer an eclectic sampling of music as well as their production style the sessions have been compared to that of the

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Content

The site typically hosts around 60 songs by 17 bands per week. Almost all are available as downloads. From 2011 to 2018, access to streaming or downloading music from Daytrotter was by paid membership only but on March 1, 2018, Daytrotter returned to free streaming. There is an archives section of past performers, each illustrated by a staff of illustrators. In addition to music, there are sections of reviews and commentaries of musicians and their releases. The site won the

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and

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"Music Blog of the Year" (2007) award, and ''The Morning News'' 2007 Editor's Award for Online Excellence.

Studio

The original studio in

, was founded in 2006 by

. It later moved to Horseshack, in

. From 2011 through 2016 over 300 remote sessions were recorded in Austin, Texas by Danny Reisch at Good Danny's studio. In April 2019 it moved to

. A minimalist recording process is used to record the visiting bands; the recording process is

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, with no

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References

External links

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