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Aid Kid (Ondra Mikula) is a musician, composer, producer and DJ based in Prague. His organic and intuitive approach to electronic music made him a sought-after professional when it comes to producing albums or scoring movies. His work is awarded by both Czech Academy of Popular Music (Anděl award) and Czech Film and Television Academy (Czech Lion award).

His self-released eponymous debut album (2015) earned him instant recognition with the critics and the Vinyla award for Discovery of the Year. The second album, Cinematographer's Journal (2019), a found-footage documentary OST, represents a momentary twist in Aid Kid's work from club inspired tracks to sounds of piano, strings and other acoustic instruments in minimal compositions. On the third album, Collection (2021), Aid Kid returns to the introspective dance sounds. 

As Aid Kid proved his feeling for detail and unconventional, but sensitive touch on his own work, other artists began to ask for his services as a music producer. Overstepping the genre of electronic music into the realm of pop, alternative rock and jazz opened his horizons, as well as working with experienced professionals in the best studios deepened his production skills. In 2020, he worked on an album Řeka by Lenka Dusilová, record that won three Anděl awards and definitely proved Aid Kid's talent to the wider public.

Aid Kid formed numerous bands and projects. Currently he's performing European venues with an avatar-led audiovisual electronic duo NIVVA. He's also a close collaborator to the Lunchmeat studio, a group of audiovisual art and technology professionals behind a prestigious international Lunchmeat festival.

During the last ten years Aid Kid worked on more than twenty theater plays. He's frequently working with Kamila Polívková, innovative director whose work resonates internationally - mainly in Czechia, Germany and Island. Currently you can see their adaptation of Sjón's novel Moonstone in Studio Hrdinů theater in Prague.

After scoring the movie Arvéd, which swept both Academy and Film Critic awards (including Czech Lion for Best music), his main focus now lies on cinematography. Noteworthy might be the under-the-radar Romanian drama Dark Ages, produced by Corneliu Porumboiu, or Caravan by Zuzana Kirchnerová, first Czech entry in the Cannes festival official selection in thirty years.