Bloodshy & Avant

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Bloodshy & Avant
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Karlsson (right) and Winnberg (left) performing in Södertälje, Sweden, March 2011
Background information
Also known as
  • Böz o Lö
  • Karlsson & Winnberg
  • Robotberget
OriginSweden
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Occupation(s)
Years active2000–present
Associated acts
Members

Bloodshy & Avant are a Swedish songwriting and production duo consisting of Christian "Bloodshy" Karlsson and Pontus "Avant" Winnberg. They have worked with many prominent artists, including Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue, Ms. Dynamite, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Katy Perry, Kelis, Girls' Generation, Christina Milian, Sky Ferreira, Hikaru Utada and BoA. In addition to their production work, Karlsson and Winnberg are also members of the synth-pop group Miike Snow, alongside lead vocalist Andrew Wyatt.

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Career

Original songs and production

Bloodshy and Avant scored their first success working with American singer/songwriter Christina Milian for her début album. [1] The collaboration resulted in two hit singles, "AM to PM," and "When You Look at Me," both of which hit number three on the UK Singles Chart.

They were then commissioned to work with UK hip-hop singer/rapper, Ms. Dynamite and BRIT Award-winning English pop group Sugababes. The collaboration with Ms. Dynamite resulted in several tracks which appeared on her début album, A Little Deeper, including her hit début single, "It Takes More". They also produced tracks for her 2005 second release, Judgement Days. [2]

Bloodshy and Avant co-wrote and produced two songs which appeared on Britney Spears' 2003 album In the Zone : the hit single, "Toxic", that merited a Grammy award; and "Showdown". They also produced all the three new songs on her 2004 Greatest Hits: My Prerogative album and the theme song for Britney & Kevin: Chaotic series. They subsequently worked with Spears on her fifth studio album, Blackout , for which they collaborated with Spears on four songs: the hit single, "Piece of Me", "Radar", "Freakshow" and "Toy Soldier"; and again on her 2008 follow-up album Circus , for which they produced the songs "Unusual You", "Phonography" and "Trouble", the latter two appeared only as bonus tracks. Bloodshy alone co-produced two songs for Britney Spears' 7th studio album Femme Fatale , "How I Roll" and "Trip to Your Heart".

The duo co-wrote and co-produced two tracks with Madonna, "How High" and "Like It or Not", for her 2005 Confessions on a Dance Floor album.[ citation needed ]

In 2007, for Kylie Minogue's 10th studio album X , Bloodshy and Avant co-wrote and produced "Speakerphone", "Nu-di-ty" and "Cherry Bomb", the latter appeared only on CD singles.

In 2008, Bloodshy and Avant produced few songs for BoA's English début BoA . A year later they produced "Chocolate Love" for South Korean girl groups Girls' Generation and f(x).

In 2010 Bloodshy signed Sky Ferreira and produced songs like "One", "17" and "Haters Anonymous"

Remixes and other projects

Bloodshy & Avant have also gained fame by remixes. They have remixed songs from Britney Spears (Songs they also wrote and produced the originals of) including a remix for "Piece of Me" which charted number one on the US Billboard Hot Club Play chart. Also other remixes for "Toxic" and "Me Against the Music" have topped the US Billboard charts.

Outside of being Bloodshy and Avant, Christian and Pontus are in a band together with Andrew Wyatt called Miike Snow. [3] They also run a label called Ändersson with signed artists and musicians including Little Majorette, Sky Ferreira and Meadow (a project with their friends Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello. They are also working on the music for a videogame with EA Games/Dice to be released in 2010.[ needs update ]

Winnberg is a member of a band called Amason together with Gustav Ejstes, Idiot Wind (Amanda Bergman Mattson), Nils Törnqvist and Petter Winnberg. [4] Karlsson and Linus Eklöw comprise the band Galantis. Wyatt and Winnberg were among 13 founding members of Swedish artist collective and record label INGRID.

Studio Robotberget

Bloodshy and Avant own a studio based in a 150-year-old fire station in the middle of Söder, Stockholm.

Studio Gear & Recording Equipment

Awards

Discography

2020

From Jamie Lynn Spears and Chantel Jeffries's Follow Me (Zoey 101) - Single


From Carly Rae Jepsen's Dedicated Side B

2019

From Carly Rae Jepsen's Dedicated

2016

MishCatt - EP (produced by Avant)

From Miike Snow's iii

2015

David Guetta

Hilary Duff

2014

Charli XCX

2013

Katy Perry

2012

From Miike Snow's Happy to You

2011

From Depeche Mode's Remixes 81-11

From Sky Ferreira's As If!

From Britney Spears' Femme Fatale

2010

From Miike Snow's Miike Snow Deluxe Version

From Dangerous Muse's Take Control

2009

From Miike Snow's Miike Snow

From f(x)'s Chocolate Love

From Girls' Generation's Chocolate Love

From BoA's Best & USA

From BoA's BoA

2008

From Lisa 's Got that Fever

From Maroon 5's Call and Response: The Remix Album

From Britney Spears' Circus

From Crystal Kay's Namida no Saki ni (涙のさきに; Beyond the Tears)

From Crystal Kay's Color Change!

From Sean Garrett's Turbo 919

From Leon Jean Marie's Bent out of shape

2007

From Britney Spears' Blackout

From Jennifer Lopez's Brave

From Jordin Sparks' Jordin Sparks

From Kevin Michael

From Kylie Minogue's X

From the soundtrack Music and Lyrics: Music from the Motion Picture

2006

From Belinda's Utopia

From Kelis' Kelis Was Here

From Natalie's Everything New

From Zoey 101: Music Mix

2005

From Britney Spears' Someday (I Will Understand) - CD Single and Britney & Kevin: Chaotic (EP)

From Brooke Valentine's Chain Letter

From Madonna's Confessions on a Dancefloor

From Rob Thomas' ...Something to Be

From Utada's Exodus

2004

From Britney Spears' Greatest Hits: My Prerogative

From Christina Milian's It's About Time

From Ms. Dynamite's Judgement Days

2003

From Britney Spears' In the Zone

From Rachel Stevens' Funky Dory

From Billy Crawford's Ride

From Ruby Amanfu's Sugah

From Lene Nystrøm's Play With Me

2002

From Christina Milian's Christina Milian

From Ms. Dynamite's A Little Deeper

From Sugababes' Angels with Dirty Faces

From Samantha Mumba's The Collection

2001

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