Lars Christian Karlsson (born 14 July 1975), also known by his stage name Bloodshy, is a

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, DJ, and remixer known for his work with the musical groups

Bloodshy and 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, Madonn ...

Miike Snow Miike Snow (pronounced "Mike Snow") is a Swedish indie pop band formed in 2007. The band consists of producing team Bloodshy & Avant and American singer Andrew Wyatt. The band is often represented by a silhouette image of a jackalope. In their ...

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, and

Galantis Galantis is a Swedish electronic dance music production, songwriting and DJ duo consisting of Christian Karlsson and Linus Eklöw. Karlsson is also known as Bloodshy as part of two other musical groups, a duo (Bloodshy & Avant) and a trio (Mi ...

. He started his international music career as one half of the

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duo

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, ...

with Pontus Winnberg, producing and co-writing tracks for

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such as Madonna,

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, Kylie Minogue, and Katy Perry. Bloodshy & Avant notably co-wrote and produced Britney Spears' single "

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", which earned them a

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for

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in 2005. While continuing to work with Bloodshy and Avant, Karlsson also became a member of the

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band Miike Snow around 2007. ''

'', the group's debut album, was released in 2009, and peaked at number 11 on the

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chart in the United States. Miike Snow won the 2011

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, and their second album ''

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'' reached No. 1 on the Belgian Heatseekers Albums Chart and 43 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Karlsson is also a member of a band called Galantis together with Linus Eklöw. Their debut self-titled EP ''

'' was released on 1 April 2014, and they debuted their live show at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival two weeks later. The duo won Coachella 2014's Best Dance Music Moment from ''Billboard'', beating Calvin Harris and

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with 52% of the vote. Galantis had international success with their single "

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" in October 2014, which received a nomination for

at the

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. Galantis released their debut album ''

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'' on 8 June 2015, and that year the duo was named Best Breakthrough Artist at the

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. Karlsson continues to tour with both Galantis and Miike Snow, the latter of which released their third album, '' iii'', in March 2016.

Early life

Christian Karlsson began focusing on music at age thirteen, recollecting "I come from

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culture, so it was punk rock, and I got into hip hop when hip hop got into skateboarding. I had never done anything else but music." He began working in the studio mixing and producing music as a teenager, and held stints with Swedish pop groups such as Goldmine, who at one point opened for the

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Music career

Bloodshy and Avant singles (2000–2005)

Early in his music career, Bloodshy began working with his childhood friend Pontus Winnberg on

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and

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. Karlsson adopted the moniker Bloodshy, and began working avidly on songwriting and producing with Winnberg as

. The duo scored their first success working with American singer-songwriter

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for her late 2001 début album. The duo were then commissioned to work with English pop group

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. Their subsequent collaboration with

Ms. Dynamite Niomi Arleen McLean-Daley (born 26 April 1981), better known as Ms. Dynamite, is a British singer and rapper. She is the recipient of the Mercury Music Prize, two Brit Awards and three MOBO Awards. Early years She was born Niomi Arleen Mc ...

resulted in several tracks on her 2002 album ''

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'', including her hit début single, "

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". Bloodshy and Avant co-wrote and produced two songs on Britney Spears' 2003 album ''

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'': "Showdown", and the hit single, "

", which two years later won at the

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, also winning a 2005

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for most performed song. Bloodshy and Avant subsequently produced all three new songs on Spears' 2004 '' Greatest Hits: My Prerogative'', and also produced the theme song for her '' Britney & Kevin: Chaotic'' reality series in 2005. After working with Spears, the duo continued to work with high-profile pop stars such as Katy Perry, Kylie Minogue, and

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. In 2005, Bloodshy and Avant co-wrote and co-produced two tracks with Madonna for her ''Confessions on a Dance Floor'' album. They also produced tracks for Ms. Dynamite's 2005 release '' Judgement Days''. Bloodshy and Avant worked with Spears on her album '' Blackout'' in 2007, collaborating on songs such as "

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" and "

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". In 2007, for Kylie Minogue's 10th studio album '' X'', Bloodshy and Avant co-wrote and produced songs such as "

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". Bloodshy and Avant again helped Spears on her 2008 album ''

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'', producing tracks such as " Unusual You". Also that year, Bloodshy and Avant produced few songs for South Korean pop star

's English début ''

'', and the following year they produced "Chocolate Love" for the

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girl groups

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and f(x).

Miike Snow and INGRID (2008–2012)

Bloodshy and Avant encountered and befriended American vocalist

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in 2007, formulating the idea for a future collaboration. Bloodshy and Avant soon formed the band

with Wyatt, and ''

'', the group's debut album, was released in 2009. The first single to be taken from the album was the

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", released on 17 February 2009. " Black & Blue", the album's second single, was released on 15 October 2009, while the third single "

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" was released on 22 January 2010 in the UK. The album peaked on number 11 on the

chart in the United States. Continuing to mix and perform with Bloodshy and Avant while with Miike Snow, in 2010 Karlsson worked with

to produce singles like " One", which was released in August. In 2011, Karlsson alone co-produced two songs for Britney Spears' 7th studio album ''

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'', "How I Roll" and "Trip to Your Heart". In July 2011, Karlsson co-founded the Swedish artist collective and record label

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along with Miike Snow,

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, Coco Morier and

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. Beyond INGRID, Bloodshy and Avant own Studio Robotberget, a studio based in Stockholm. They also run a label called Ändersson with signed artists and musicians including Little Majorette,

and Meadow. Miike Snow won the 2011

. On 24 January 2012, Miike Snow released "Black Tin Box", a collaboration with Swedish singer

. On 13 March 2012, Miike Snow released their second album ''

''. It met with a largely positive response in publications such as

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'', and ''

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'', with a mixed review from

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. It charted well, reaching No. 1 on the Belgian Heatseekers Albums Chart and 43 on the ''Billboard'' 200.

Founding Galantis and "Smile" (2013)

Karlsson is a member of a band called

together with Linus Eklöw, which they formed around 2013. Karlsson and Eklöw had first met by chance at Karlsson's Robotberget studios in

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, sometime in 2007. In 2009, Miike Snow asked Eklöw to remix their song "

". Afterwards Karlsson and Eklöw, both based in Sweden, started hanging out in the studio together, playing each other songs and scraps of ideas. In 2012 they stopped the loop-based and software-centric approach, switching to Karlsson's usual method of beginning a song on guitar or piano. "We keep the song naked, and when we feel like we have the right one, we put some clothes on it and see how it feels", says Karlsson. Christian and Eklöw said: "when we started Galantis, we set out to challenge each other and experiment with all of the sounds and ideas that we find exciting. We built a studio on a small island in the Baltic Sea and our surroundings became a source of inspiration." Galantis signed to

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' dance imprint Big Beat Records in mid-2013. Their first single with Big Beat Records, "Smile", was released that following November. As the first composition they agreed upon, "Smile" received several remixes from various artists, and an extended mix by

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. "Smile" has also been featured by

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, Tiesto,

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, and

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, who featured it as an Essential Tune. Its controversial video premiered on

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, and featured the first instance of the "Seafox", a band mascot created by visual artist

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''Galantis'' EP and touring (2014)

In February 2014, the duo released their second single "

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". The track was subsequently played heavily at

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, becoming the 8th most Shazamed track at the festival. Their debut self-titled EP ''

'' was released on April 1, 2014. Galantis debuted their live show at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 12, 2014, about two weeks after they released their debut EP. In a ''Billboard'' Poll asking fans to vote on Coachella 2014's Best Dance Music Moment, Galantis beat Calvin Harris,

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and Girl Talk with 52% of the vote. Their debut performance garnered praise from ''Dancing Astronaut'', ''

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'' and ''Billboard'', among other publications. Galantis has had international success with their single "

", which debuted on 5 October 2014. ''

'' opined that the song was "riding high on unapologetically major-key synths and pitched-up vocals", also writing "the summer anthem added an organic touch to the undeniable earworm qualities of the best Scandinavian pop." The song reached the top of

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's Global and US Viral charts and became a top 10 Spotify track in the Netherlands, Belgium and Finland. In America, the track peaked at number 1 on the ''Billboard'' Twitter Emerging Artists chart, and ''Billboard'' ranked the song at number five on its "The 10 Best Electronic/Dance Songs of 2014" list. Furthermore, "Runaway (U & I)" received a nomination for

at the

, receiving a second Grammy nomination as well.

''Pharmacy'' and singles (2015–16)

Galantis released the single " Gold Dust" on 19 February 2015 through

, which reached number 1 on Hype Machine's Popular Chart. In April 2015, Galantis released their single " Peanut Butter Jelly", which ''

'' called a "retro, funky slice of

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revival, with the kind of unforgettable, sing-along vocal hook destined for clubs, parties and spin classes." ''

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'' magazine wrote that the "infectious" track "samples the 1960s soul singer

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, lending major retro vibes to its pulsing contemporary beat." On May 21, 2015 Galantis began their summer tour in support of ''Pharmacy'', which ended on August 6, 2015. There were 22 dates on the tour in total, with various performances in multiple continents including Europe and North America. Galantis released their debut album ''

'' on June 8, 2015. The duo uploaded each song to their

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channel with alternate artworks for each track. Karlsson was touring with Galantis at the end of 2015 as well, with plans to hit venues in

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and other North American cities. In 2015, Galantis was named Best Breakthrough Artist at the

. On March 4, 2016, Miike Snow released '' iii''. With the band, Karlsson performed singles from the album on ''

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'' on March 1, 2016. In addition, the band announced a tour in 2016 to promote the album, to take place from March 3, 2016 to July 29, 2016. Specific dates included

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* Coachell ...

, the

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and

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, as well as others.

Style and equipment

Karlsson is known for writing and producing a mixture of

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, and other

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. He uses similar approaches in his different musical groups, stating that with

, they "always start with the song. We use guitar, piano, and bass lines we don't keep to figure out which clothes we're going to put on each melody and lyric. I think that's different than a lot of others in the dance scene. They have a beat they love and then force a top line on top of it." Karlsson furthermore stated that with Galantis, "A Galantis song sometimes has been only on a piano for two years before we even start putting a

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in it ... there's no Galantis song that starts with a beat or a track."

Personal life

As of 2016, Bloodshy is based in

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with his family.

Awards and nominations

Discography

With Bloodshy and Avant

With Miike Snow

* ''

'' (2009) * ''

'' (2012) * '' iii'' (2016)

With INGRID

*'' Hearts Beating Weak'' (2012)

With Galantis

* '' Galantis EP'' (2014) * ''

'' (2015)

References

External links

WeAreGalantis.comMiikeSnow.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Karlsson, Christian 1975 births Swedish DJs Remixers Living people Grammy Award winners Miike Snow members Galantis members Electronic dance music DJs