Radio Caprice

Radio Caprice streams at 48 kbps, which sounds like a relic from the early 2000s internet but somehow fits the station's aesthetic perfectly. Low bitrate becomes character. The jazz it plays gets filtered through that compressed bandwidth, adding a veil of analog warmth that shouldn't work but does. Programming spans jazz history comprehensively - bebop, cool jazz, post-bop deep cuts, fusion experiments that mainstream jazz radio ignores completely. There's no obvious curator's hand. It feels like someone's personal collection broadcasting at random, creating unexpected juxtapositions. Theloni…