Bloodshy & Avant


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, 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.

Career

Original songs and production

Bloodshy and Avant scored their first success working with American singer/songwriter Christina Milian for her début album. 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.
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 ' album and the theme song for ' 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.
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.
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 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. They also run a label called Ändersson with signed artists and musicians including Little Majorette, Sky Ferreira and Meadow, Nils Törnqvist and Petter Winnberg.
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

2020

From Carly Rae Jepsen's ''Dedicated Side B
From Carly Rae Jepsen's Dedicated
- EP
From Miike Snow's iii
Hilary Duff
From Miike Snow's Happy to You
From Depeche Mode's Remixes 81-11
From Sky Ferreira's As If!
From Britney Spears' Femme Fatale
From Miike Snow's Miike Snow Deluxe Version
  • "The Rabbit"
  • "Silvia"
From Dangerous Muse's Take Control
From Miike Snow's Miike Snow
  • "Animal"
  • "Burial"
  • "Silvia"
  • "Song for No One"
  • "Black & Blue"
  • "Sans Soleil"
  • "A Horse Is Not a Home"
  • "Cult Logic"
  • "Plastic Jungle"
  • "In Search Of"
  • "Faker"
  • "Billie Holiday"
From f's Chocolate Love
From Girls' Generation's Chocolate Love
  • "Chocolate Love "
From BoA's Best & USA
From BoA's BoA
From Lisa's Got that Fever
  • "Leave"
From Maroon 5's
From Britney Spears' Circus
  • "Unusual You"
  • "Phonography"
  • "Trouble"
From Crystal Kay's Namida no Saki ni
From Crystal Kay's Color Change!
  • "It's a Crime"
From Sean Garrett's Turbo 919
From Leon Jean Marie's Bent out of shape
From Britney Spears' Blackout
  • "Piece of Me" 3 time VMA winner
  • "Radar"
  • "Freakshow"
  • "Toy Soldier"
  • "Piece of Me"
  • "Radar"
From Jennifer Lopez's Brave
  • "Brave"
  • "Brave"
From Jordin Sparks' Jordin Sparks
  • "See My Side"
  • "Shy Boy"
  • "Young and in Love"
From Kevin Michael
  • "We All Want the Same Thing" featuring Lupe Fiasco
  • "Hoodbuzzin"
  • "Lollipop"
From Kylie Minogue's X
  • "Nu-di-ty"
  • "Speakerphone"
  • "Cherry Bomb" b-side to "Wow" and "In My Arms" single
From the soundtrack '''
From Kelis' Kelis Was Here
  • "Fire" featuring Spragga Benz
From Natalie's Everything New
From Belinda's Utopia
  • "Good... Good"
From Jamelia's Walk With Me
From Britney Spears' Someday - CD Single and
  • "Chaotic"
  • "Mona Lisa"
From Brooke Valentine's Chain Letter
From Madonna's Confessions on a Dancefloor
  • "How High"
  • "Like It or Not"
From Rob Thomas' ...Something to Be
From Utada's Exodus''
From Britney Spears'
  • "My Prerogative"
  • "Do Somethin'"
  • "I've Just Begun "
From Christina Milian's It's About Time
From Ms. Dynamite's Judgement Days
From Britney Spears' In the Zone
  • "Toxic" Grammy award winner
  • "Showdown"
  • "Me Against the Music"
  • "Me Against the Music"
  • "Toxic"
  • "Take Off"
  • "Look Who's Talking Now"
From Rachel Stevens' Funky Dory
From Billy Crawford's Ride
  • "The Way She Rocks My World"
From Ruby Amanfu's Sugah
From Lene Nystrøm's Play With Me
From Christina Milian's Christina Milian
  • "AM to PM"
  • "When You Look at Me"
  • "You Make Me Laugh"
  • "Got to Have You"
  • "Last Call"
  • "Snooze You Lose"
From Ms. Dynamite's A Little Deeper
From Sugababes' Angels with Dirty Faces
  • "Supernatural"
From Samantha Mumba's The Collection