Under a nearly full moon rising over the sand dunes out at Race Point in P’town, Mark Anthony revved up the Hangar Party like a jet readying for take-off—and sent the packed Cape Air hangar on a five-hour musical journey that kept the boyz bumping and grinding to his signature deep house sound. Hard to believe, but this was Mark Anthony’s inaugural P’town flight—and with red lights flashing and smoke machines bellowing across the floor, the Hangar Party had the feel of one of Mark Anthony’s Red Lite after-hours in Montreal. This was rich, chunky house overlaid with soaring, pleading vocals. What Anthony did with a snippet of Maya’s “Alone,” for example, was to loop the “leaving, baby” refrain and drive the Offer Nissim track deeper and harder, the way we like it in Montreal. This was music for hip grinding and ravenous kissing, music to make you warm all through a cool Cape Cod night.

Busloads of boyz kept arriving from P’town harbor, injecting new energy into the 5,000 square-foot hangar, illuminated by Kyra of the long-running Boston after-hours, RISE. There was Randy Bettis, and Roland Belmares alongside Mark Anthony in the booth, and Steve Ceplenski and Gary Steinberg of NOIZE, and Jaker of EDGE, and—glam alert—there was Chyna making her entrance, looking like a first-class passenger about to board Air France for breakfast in Paris. And then lil Chris, one of the Circuit Ho posse, who’d apparently left behind his six-top in his hurry to hit the Hangar—just as Mark the Manthony sent the crowd into arms-in-the-air delirium with his version of Kelly Rowland’s “When Love Takes Over.” “I suppose this is the song of the summer,” sighed lil Chris. Yes, dear—it is.

And with the back of the hangar open to the tarmac and the dunes of the Cape Cod National Seashore beyond, and with the nearly full moon cruising through the cloud-stippled indigo sky—and with Mark the Manthony pushing all the right buttons, it was hard to feel anything but jubilation for summer flying in P’town.