There is already a system for this: DJs, radio, and mixes. But the DJs need to control the radio or the mix, and they need to do so solely for artistic or aesth

There is already a system for this: DJs, radio, and mixes. But the DJs need to control the radio or the mix, and they need to do so solely for artistic or aesthetic reasons, not commercial, political, or economic ones. If the music can be easily identified (either by IDing the track directly or via something like Shazam), and the listener has found a DJ they like, finding that 1% becomes really easy. Curated playlists is moving in the right direction, but you're still missing out on the extra context and flourish that a good selector can add. The signal-to-noise ratio for this approach is extremely high; the right party or twitch stream can be worth 10x the amount of time spent trawling through Spotify's daily playlists.