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Swedish songwriting and production duo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 Karlsson (right) and Winnberg (left) performing in Södertälje, Sweden, March 2011 | |
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| Origin | Sweden |
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| Years active | 2000–present |
| Spinoffs | Miike Snow |
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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"
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.
Bloodshy and Avant own a studio based in a 150-year-old fire station in the middle of Söder, Stockholm.
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From Jamie Lynn Spears and Chantel Jeffries's Follow Me (Zoey 101) - Single
From Carly Rae Jepsen's Dedicated Side B
From Carly Rae Jepsen's Dedicated
MishCatt - EP (produced by Avant)
From Miike Snow's iii
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
From Dangerous Muse's Take Control
From Miike Snow's Miike Snow
From f(x)'s Chocolate Love
From Girls' Generation's Chocolate Love
From BoA's Best & USA
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
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
From Belinda's Utopia
From Kelis' Kelis Was Here
From Natalie's Everything New
From Zoey 101: Music Mix
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 Britney Spears' Greatest Hits: My Prerogative
From Christina Milian's It's About Time
From Ms. Dynamite's Judgement Days
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
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
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