HipHopDX reviewed Closed Sessions: ATX in their latest Review Bits article, giving praise to the LP.

Created over the course of four days last March in Austin, Texas, ATX finds an assorted collection of emcees crossing paths for the sake of creating quality music, and the end results rarely disappoint... The Closed Sessions: ATX does what other compilations fail to do: provide us with an all-star cast of our favorite emcees while still keeping execution and likewise integrity in mind (looking at you DJ Khaled).

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Tim Burdick of Time-Out Boston reviewed Closed Sessions: ATX, praising the collaborations and buzzing talent on the album.

Rather than gathering years of leftover songs and calling it a mixtape, Chicago indie label Closed Sessions has adopted a more ambitious approach. Teaming with New York’s Decon collective—home of Evidence and Jay Electronica—they rented a mansion in Austin, Texas, and filled it with recording equipment. Over the course of the next four days, twenty-one rappers and five producers threw themselves into the ten tracks of Closed Sessions: ATX.

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The LA Weekly's Phillip Mlynar talked to DJ RTC, Fashawn, Rakaa, and GLC for an interesting piece on Closed Sessions: ATX. The article, "Is This The Playboy Mansion, or a Studio: Creating Hip Hop's Fantasy Camp", focuses on the vibe in the studio, and the intricacies of the mansion.

Last year, as SXSW'ers swarmed downtown Austin, Texas, Alexander "DJ RTC" Fruchter rented a palatial mansion in the nearby hills for four days and set about creating a "hip-hop fantasy camp." Rappers like Freddie Gibbs, Fashawn, Rhymefest, and Kanye West associate GLC passed through, hung out, and wrote music together. Along with compiling the best of those sessions for an album project, video footage of the bonds the artists forged was recorded for an accompanying documentary. As Fruchter puts it, the aim was to "not just document the culture and the art that came out of those four days but to tell the story of the artists and what makes them unique." With Closed Sessions: ATX released on March 15th, we asked Gibbs, Fashawn, GLC, RTC and Dilated Peoples' Rakaa to look back on their time inside hip-hop's most grandiose recording spot.

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