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, Sky Ferreira,

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and BoA. In addition to their production work, Karlsson and Winnberg are also members of the synth-pop group

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, alongside lead vocalist Andrew Wyatt.

Career

Original songs and production

Bloodshy and Avant scored their first success working with American singer/songwriter

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,

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

' 2003 album '' In the Zone'': the hit single, "

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", 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", "

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", "Freakshow" and "Toy Soldier"; and again on her 2008 follow-up album ''

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'', 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 ''

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'', "How I Roll" and "Trip to Your Heart". The duo co-wrote and co-produced two tracks with

, "How High" and "Like It or Not", for her 2005 ''Confessions on a Dance Floor'' album. In 2007, for

'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

and f(x). In 2010, Bloodshy signed Sky Ferreira and produced songs like "

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", "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

. 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

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. They are also working on the music for a videogame with EA Games/Dice to be released in 2010. Winnberg is a member of a band called Amason together with Gustav Ejstes, Idiot Wind (Amanda Bergman Mattson), 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

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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

* ASCAP Award for Most Performed Song - "Toxic" - 2005 * ASCAP Award - "Toxic" - 2004 *

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- Best Dance Recording - "Toxic" - 2005 *

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- Performing Right Society (PRS) Most Performed Work - "Toxic" - 2005 *Swedish Government - Music Export Award 2007 *SMFF Award - 2006

Discography

2020

From Jamie Lynn Spears and Chantel Jeffries's ''Follow Me (Zoey 101) - Single'' *"Follow Me (Zoey 101)" - written and produced by Bloodshy & Avant From

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'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

's '' Dedicated'' *"For Sure" - written and produced by Avant

2016

MishCatt - EP (produced by Avant) From

's '' iii'' *"My Trigger" *"The Heart of Me" *"Genghis Khan" *"Heart Is Full" *"For U" (featuring Charli XCX) *"I Feel the Weight" *"Back of the Car" *"Lonely Life" *"Over and Over" *"Longshot (7 Nights)"

2015

David Guetta Pierre David Guetta (; born 7 November 1967) is a French DJ and record producer. He has sold over 10 million albums and 65 million singles globally, with more than 30 billion streams on Spotify. Guetta was voted the number one DJ in the DJ Mag ...

*" Bang My Head" - written by Christian Bloodshy Karlsson

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*" Sparks" - produced by Bloodshy

2014

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*"Die Tonight" - written by Avant

2013

*"Love Me" - produced by Bloodshy

2012

From

's '' Happy to You'' *"Enter the Joker's Lair" *"The Wave" *"Devil's Work" *"Vase" *God Help This Divorce" *"Bavarian #1 (Say You Will)" *"Pretender" *"Archipelago" *"Black Tin Box" (featuring Lykke Li) *"Paddling Out"

2011

From

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'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

' ''Femme Fatale'' *"How I Roll" produced by Bloodshy *"Trip to Your Heart" produced by Bloodshy

2010

*"Sabali" Amadou & Mariam - Miike Snow remix From

's ''

Deluxe Version'' *"The Rabbit" *"Silvia" (Robotberget Remix) From Dangerous Muse's ''Take Control'' *"Homewrecker" *"I Want It All"

2009

From

's ''

'' * "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" (bonus track) From f(x)'s ''Chocolate Love'' * "Chocolate Love (Electronic Pop Version)" From

's ''Chocolate Love'' * "Chocolate Love (Retro Pop Version)" From BoA's '' Best & USA'' * "

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" From BoA's '' BoA'' * "Did Ya" * "Touched"

2008

From

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's ''Got that Fever'' * "Leave" From

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's '' Call and Response: The Remix Album'' * "Little of Your Time" From

' ''

'' *" Unusual You" *"Phonography" *"Trouble" (

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pre-order bonus track) From

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's '' Namida no Saki ni (涙のさきに; Beyond the Tears)'' *" Dream World" (SOIDOG MIX) Remixed with Jonback *" Namida no Saki ni (涙のさきに; Beyond the Tears)" (SOIDOG MIX) Remixed with Jonback" From

'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

' '' Blackout'' *" Piece of Me" (UK #2, US #18) 3 time VMA winner *"

" (co-produced by The Clutch) (US #88, SWE #8) *"Freakshow" *"Toy Soldier" *"Piece of Me" (Böz o Lö remix) (US club play #1) *"Radar" (Bloodshy & Avant remix) From

's '' Brave'' *"Brave" *"Brave" (Bloodshy radio edit) From

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' ''

'' *"See My Side" *"Shy Boy" *"Young and in Love" From Kevin Michael *"We All Want the Same Thing" featuring Lupe Fiasco *"Hoodbuzzin" *"Lollipop" (unreleased) From

'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 *" Haley Bennett - Buddha's Delight"

2006

From Belinda's ''Utopia'' *"Good... Good" From

' '' Kelis Was Here'' *"Fire" featuring Spragga Benz From Natalie's ''Everything New'' *"Dance With Me" From Zoey 101: Music Mix'' *"Follow Me" Instrumental version featured on soundtrack

2005

From

' '' Someday (I Will Understand) - CD Single'' and '' Britney & Kevin: Chaotic (EP)'' *"Chaotic" *"Mona Lisa" From Brooke Valentine's ''Chain Letter'' *"Blah-Blah-Blah" featuring Ol Dirty Bastard *"American Girl" *"Thrill of the Chase" From

's '' Confessions on a Dancefloor'' *"How High" *"Like It or Not" From Rob Thomas' ''...Something to Be'' *" This Is How a Heart Breaks" From Utada's '' Exodus'' *" You Make Me Want to Be a Man" (remix)

2004

From

' '' Greatest Hits: My Prerogative'' *" My Prerogative" (UK #3) *"

Do Somethin' "Do Somethin" is a song by American singer Britney Spears from her first greatest hits album, '' Greatest Hits: My Prerogative'' (2004). It was written and produced by Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg (known collectively as Bloodshy & A ...

" (UK #6, US #100) *" I've Just Begun (Having My Fun)" From

's ''It's About Time'' *"I Need More" From

's ''Judgement Days'' *"Not Today" (#7 UK) *"Shavaar" (#7 UK)

2003

From

' '' In the Zone'' *"

" (UK #1, US #9)

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award winner *"Showdown" *" Me Against the Music" (Bloodshy & Avant's Chix mix) (US club play #1) *"Me Against the Music" (featuring

) (Bloodshy & Avant "Dubbie Style" remix) *"

" (Bloodshy & Avant's Intoxicated remix) (US club play #1) *"Take Off" (unreleased) *"Look Who's Talking Now" (unreleased) From Rachel Stevens' ''Funky Dory'' *" Sweet Dreams My LA Ex" (UK #2) *"Glide" From

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's ''Ride'' *"The Way She Rocks My World" (bonus track) From Ruby Amanfu's ''Sugah'' *"Some of That Marley" From Lene Nystrøm's ''Play With Me'' *"Up in Smoke"

2002

From

's ''Christina Milian'' *" AM to PM" (#3 UK, #27 US) *" When You Look at Me" (#3 UK) *"You Make Me Laugh" *"Got to Have You" *"Last Call" *"Snooze You Lose" From

's ''

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'' *" It Takes More" (Bloodshy Main mix) - (#7 UK) *"Brother" *" Put Him Out" - (A Little Deeper) (#28 UK) *"Krazy Krush" *"Get Up, Stand Up" From Sugababes' '' Angels with Dirty Faces'' *"Supernatural" From Samantha Mumba's '' The Collection'' *" I'm Right Here"

2001

* Infinite Mass - "She's a Freak" * Infinite Mass - "People Talk" * Ultra Nate - "Get It Up" * Ultra Nate - "I Ain't Looking for Nothing" * Amanda - "You Don't Stand A Chance" * Amanda - "Call Me" * Amanda - "Crush On You" * Stella Soleil - "Let's Just Go to Bed" *

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- "Busted" *

- "I Can't Say No"

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Avant, Bloodshy and Swedish songwriters Swedish composers Grammy Award winners Miike Snow members