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, 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.

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 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.
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 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

  • Roland System
  • Korg MS-20
  • Korg VC-10 Vocoder
  • Yamaha CP80
  • Ondes Martenot
  • Theremin by Leon Theremin
  • Viggen Debutant
  • Wurlitzer
  • August Hoffman Piano
  • RCA BA25
  • Gates Sta-Level
  • Chandler LTD1, LTD2, TG1, TG2
  • SSL Bus Compressor
  • API 1608
  • LM Ericsson Preamps
  • EMT 240
  • AKG BX20
  • Roland Space Echo
  • AKG C12
  • AKG C24
  • Neumann M49
  • Neumann SM2
  • Coles 4038

Awards

Discography

2020

From Carly Rae Jepsen's Dedicated Side B
  • "Let's Sort the Whole Thing Out" - written and produced by Avant
  • "Now I Don't Hate California After All" - written and produced by Avant

2019

From Carly Rae Jepsen's Dedicated
  • "For Sure" - written and produced by Avant

2016

MishCatt - EP
From Miike Snow's iii
  • "My Trigger"
  • "The Heart of Me"
  • "Genghis Khan"
  • "Heart Is Full"
  • "For U"
  • "I Feel the Weight"
  • "Back of the Car"
  • "Lonely Life"
  • "Over and Over"
  • "Longshot "

2015

David Guetta
Hilary Duff
  • "Sparks" - produced by Bloodshy

2014

Charli XCX
  • "Die Tonight" - written by Avant

2013

Katy Perry
  • "Love Me" - produced by Bloodshy

2012

From Miike Snow's Happy to You
  • "Enter the Joker's Lair"
  • "The Wave"
  • "Devil's Work"
  • "Vase"
  • God Help This Divorce"
  • "Bavarian #1 "
  • "Pretender"
  • "Archipelago"
  • "Black Tin Box"
  • "Paddling Out"

2011

From Depeche Mode's Remixes 81-11
  • "Tora Tora Tora" Karlsson & Winnberg remix
  • "When the body speaks" Karlsson & Winnberg remix
From Sky Ferreira's As If!
  • "Haters Anonymous"
  • "108"
  • "One"
From Britney Spears' Femme Fatale
  • "How I Roll" produced by Bloodshy
  • "Trip to Your Heart" produced by Bloodshy

2010

From Miike Snow's Miike Snow Deluxe Version
  • "The Rabbit"
  • "Silvia"
From Dangerous Muse's Take Control
  • "Homewrecker"
  • "I Want It All"

2009

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(x)'s Chocolate Love
  • "Chocolate Love "
From Girls' Generation's Chocolate Love
  • "Chocolate Love "
From BoA's Best & USA
From BoA's BoA
  • "Did Ya"
  • "Touched"

2008

From Lisa's Got that Fever
  • "Leave"
From Maroon 5's Call and Response: The Remix Album
  • "Little of Your Time"
From Britney Spears' Circus
From Crystal Kay's Namida no Saki ni
From Crystal Kay's Color Change!
  • "It's a Crime"
From Sean Garrett's Turbo 919
  • "Turbo 919"
From Leon Jean Marie's Bent out of shape
  • "You Must Know"
  • "Bring It On"
  • "Fair"
  • "East End Blues"
  • "Jumpin Off the Block"
  • Spiss - "My Slang"

2007

From Britney Spears' Blackout
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 Music and Lyrics: Music from the Motion Picture

2006

From Belinda's Utopia
  • "Good... Good"
From Kelis' Kelis Was Here
  • "Fire" featuring Spragga Benz
From Natalie's Everything New
  • "Dance With Me"
From Zoey 101: Music Mix

2005

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

2004

From Britney Spears' Greatest Hits: My Prerogative
From Christina Milian's It's About Time
  • "I Need More"
From Ms. Dynamite's Judgement Days
  • "Not Today"
  • "Shavaar"

2003

From Britney Spears' In the Zone
From Rachel Stevens' Funky Dory
From Billy Crawford's Ride
  • "The Way She Rocks My World"
From Ruby Amanfu's Sugah
  • "Some of That Marley"
From Lene Nystrøm's Play With Me
  • "Up in Smoke"

2002

From Christina Milian's Christina Milian
From Ms. Dynamite's A Little Deeper
From Sugababes' Angels with Dirty Faces
  • "Supernatural"
From Samantha Mumba's The Collection

2001