Football could easily have subdued Brown, beat him into submission through a few years of pummelling blows.
Applying techno's repetition and layering to those sounds and subduing the beat, he came up with four albums between 1996 and 2000 — and then, last year, an additional album of unreleased tracks — under the name Gas.
On one snowy, frost-bitten day in February, the mood in the basement of Legends, which is known locally as the "Football Factory", was subdued – Manchester City were beating Chelsea in the FA Cup.
Charles Aaron of Spin wrote of the producers' contributions, "nudging him toward Rakim-like-rumination, they offer subdued, slightly downcast beats, which in hip hop today means jazz, primarily of the '70s keyboard-vibe variety".
The three tracks on the Gipsy EP, which are embedded above, are subdued and voluptuous beats that are perfect for endless hours of dancing in hot environments, as they seem to bob along effortlessly and propel dancers through marathon sets.
Both the Spanish players have an easy presence and forthright energy, in comparison with which Hall and Johansson are slightly subdued and off the beat.
For years, workers said, a security guard subdued psychotic residents by beating them.
The album's beat is often subdued, cushioned in layers of keyboards, and Ms. Lennox lingers over her melodies.
What a great beat: melodic and subdued.
The song has a percolating beat and featured subdued vocals from Spears, who purrs and yawns through the track.
Musically, "Smile" is a bubbly, mid-tempo tune with "a barroom piano lick", subdued horns and a reggae beat, singing in a light falsetto, while the organ riff contains a sample of Jackie Mittoo playing keyboards on the 1960s rocksteady song "Free Soul" by The Soul Brothers, also written by Mittoo.
