Šarlo Akrobata

Šarlo Akrobata were a new wave and post-punk trio from Belgrade: Milan Mladenović on guitar and vocals, Dušan "Koja" Kojić on bass and vocals, and Ivan "Vd" Vdović on drums. They grew out of the band Limunovo Drvo, which Kojić and Vdović, a jazz-minded drummer who had played with Suncokret, joined; after opening for Pankrti at Belgrade's SKC in April 1980, guitarist Gagi Mihajlović left and the other three went on as a trio, named after the Yugoslav nickname for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp. Together with Električni Orgazam and Idoli they were seen as the core of the new Belgrade scene.

In November 1980 the band won the second jury prize at the Omladina festival in Subotica with "Ona se budi", behind Film. By then they had recorded "Ona se budi", "Oko moje glave", "Niko kao ja" and "Mali čovek" at Enco Lesić's Druga Maca studio, and the video for "Niko kao ja" was shown on New Year's Eve in the TV show Rokenroler. The four songs came out in February 1981 on the Jugoton compilation Paket aranžman, shared with Električni Orgazam and Idoli, and "Mali čovek", with "Ona se budi" on the B-side, was their first single.

In July 1981 Jugoton released their only studio album, Bistriji ili tuplji čovek biva kad..., after PGP-RTB had dropped it during recording. Its title comes from Vasa Pelagić's book Narodni učitelj, and it mixed new wave with reggae, punk and dub. In May 1981 they played with Haustor as the opening act for Gang of Four in Zagreb, and in October they toured Poland.

Differences between the members ended the band after a farewell concert in Ljubljana in October 1981. Kojić founded Disciplina Kičme, and Mladenović formed Katarina II, which Vdović also joined for a time and which became Ekatarina Velika. Ivan Vdović died on 23 September 1992 and Milan Mladenović on 5 November 1994.

In the 1998 book YU 100, Bistriji ili tuplji čovek biva kad... was ranked 11th and Paket aranžman second, and in 2015 the Croatian edition of Rolling Stone put the album second among the 100 greatest Yugoslav albums. In the Rock Express Top 100 Yugoslav Rock Songs of All Times, published by the magazine in 2000 after a poll of its readers, critics and musicians, "Niko kao ja" was ranked 8th and "Ona se budi" 62nd. On B92's 2006 list of the 100 best domestic songs, voted by its listeners, "Ona se budi" was fifth and "Niko kao ja" ninth.