COOL TO BE FLABBY! The name was found in the English Dictionary, the sound, in the music encyclopaedia. Following its index, they started mixing up genres and sounds, melting styles and rhythms, cooking something absolutely fresh and charming. FLABBY was born thanks to the “menage a trois” , due to an extraordinary musical feeling , established between Ross Pellecchia, Fab Fiore and Andrea De Sabato, three acclaimed radio and club deejays. The three of them went out for a drink together, on an evening of 1996 in Milan: it was while sipping an unprecised number of Martini cocktails that they discovered an irresistible musical empathy and actually started the Flabby thing! “Diggy Doggy Doo”, the first single by the newborn FLABBY, was built around the sample of a famous 70’s commercial for a matress and released during the spring of 1997 through Soul Trade Music, a small indie label owned by the young, charming talent scout Mariella Reitano. The song was greatly successful throughout the acid jazz circuit, suddenly becoming part of the picking up lounge music phenomena. In February ‘98 “Modern Tunes for Everybody” was released: “les album plus cool d’Europe” , according to a Canadian review ! It’s Flabby’s debut album , anticipated by the single “ Mambo Italiano”, a song written in the 50’s by Bob Merrill and known all over the world thanks to performances by Dean Martin and Rosemarie Clooney. In Italy “Mambo Italiano” became a massive hit thanks to the bizarre arrangement , th