Regional Variations and Gatherings
In 1983, Austrian DJ Enne & Stefan ‘Cosmic-Dieter-Bohlen’ Egger after hearing the music in Italy, brought it to the club Galaxy in Innsbruck, Austria, and at some point introduced it to German audiences while on tour. Beginning in 1987, Egger started mixing it with more straightforward, slightly faster (but still relatively slow) dance records of the day. His style, once dubbed Eben Cosmic Music by Hannes Alshut & Rob Neureiter, remains popular in Austria and Southern Germany to the present day.
Regular gatherings of Afro/Cosmic enthusiasts have occurred in Germany, Austria, and Italy since the music's early days. Afroraduno, the first such gathering of Afroraduni, took place in Gambara, Brescia (Italy) in 1983.
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