The Qween Beat boss shows M.I.A. the ‘Ha’.

As the apocryphal story goes, an admirer of Michelangelo’s “David” asked the artist, “How do you take such a rough stone and make such a great sculpture from it?” to which Michelangelo replied, “I just carve away anything that isn’t art.”

MikeQ has a habit of doing the same thing with his ballroom edits: finding the parts of the original that are essential, carving away everything else, and laying in the requisite body-dropping beats.

That’s what he’s done on this remix of M.I.A.’s YOLO-flipping ‘Y.A.L.A.’, which you can stream/download below. The track has been shared by legendary New York underground party/collective/subculture-onto-itself Ghe20 G0th1k; MikeQ is set to headline their Brooklyn Halloween party.