Floex (CZ)
The record Zorya, released by Tomáš Dvořák a.k.a. Floex in 2011, became quite a blockbuster. Not only was it nominated to the two new awards organized by two “teams” of music journalists, the Apollo and Vinyla, it has also won, and this truly is unique, no less than two style awards – electronica and alternative music – in the more commercial Anděl awards. If the award jury had tried a little harder, the record could have very easily appeared also in the jazz section.
Floex’s music won recognition as early as in 2001 with the debut album Pocustone, a combination of styles that had been rather discrete until then: nu-jazz, electronica, and contemporary classic music. Pocustone received much acclaim in the reviews not only in the Czech Republic (Anděl award in 2001, nomination for Qwartz, the European award of independent recording labels). The record also appears in the polls searching the most important albums released in the Czech music scene of the past decade.