EPFM Campinas

EPFM Campinas broadcasts from the heart of São Paulo state, and it sounds like it. The station isn't chasing a polished sound - there's a lovely roughness to the production that gives it character. The 64kbps stream might compress some highs, but the music programming compensates. One afternoon, they played a set of classic samba from Cartola, then jumped straight into early 2000s indie rock. It shouldn't work, but the enthusiasm of the host carries it. Daytime tends toward Brazilian pop and MPB, while evenings get heavier - rock, sometimes metal. The talk segments are in Portuguese, presumabl…