Like are you gonna trawl through 5 billion songs to find 1000 ones that blow your mind?
I think 5 billion might be a bit of an exaggeration :P
But yeah I do listen to a lot of new music, one of the big ones for finding new music is live performances like Defqon1
They have lots of colour stages, for example Gold stage is old school hardstyle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tww7lK7OHpw
Yellow (uptempo):
Red which is the main stage and this set in particular is the legends set which goes through all the top hardstyle producers in their eras playing their stuff
00:00 - Epoch 1: 2000 - 2005
00:23:34 - Epoch 2: 2005 - 2010
01:33:18 - Epoch 3: 2010 - 2015
02:55:32 - Epoch 4: 2015 - 2020
04:08:42 - Epoch 5: 2020 - 2025
04:41:46 - The Closing Ritual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvVrXLErxcg
Then maybe I go oh this song from late 90's sounds good, wonder what else was going on before then, then I can hop on Spotify and search for early 90's rave:
Early 90s rave classics
Classic rave tracks from (mostly) 1990-1995. Everything from chart hits to underground hardcore.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4kWUW71rphZnv4hPE7OsVQ
or maybe I'll hear something new like https://youtu.be/QeD-amb0vA0?t=580 and want to hear more so then I lookup the artist on Spotify and just start playing through all their songs seeing if anything else stands out
and that's just for one genre (hardstyle) not taking into account trance music, metal, ambient/chillout, vaporwave, techno etc
It's just a never ending quest to hear new music and keep pushing my boundaries
There's also a BIG catch, you're predisposed to liking the music you heard during your youth the most:
“Between the ages of 12 and 22, our brains undergo rapid neurological development—and the music we love during that decade seems to get wired into our lobes for good. When we make neural connections to a song, we also create a strong memory trace that becomes laden with heightened emotion, thanks partly to a surfeit of pubertal growth hormones. These hormones tell our brains that everything is incredibly important—especially the songs that form the soundtrack to our teenage dreams (and embarrassments)…
This might explain why I still love a cheeky listen to Korn or Limpbizkit every now and then 🤣