Owsla Owsla Owsla (stylized as OWSLA) is an American record label and creative collective. It was founded by Skrillex and co-founded by Tim Smith, Kathryn Frazier, and Clayton Blaha in 2011. Skrillex announced the label on August 17, 2011. The label's first release was Porter Robinson's "Spitfire". The name "Owsla" is a reference to Richard Adams' fantasy novel "Watership Down" which is about a group of anthropomorphized rabbits who live in a Sandleford warren. In 2012, Owsla launched a monthly subscription, "The Nest", with benefits including early access to Owsla releases. In 2013, Bromance Records partners up with Owsla to create
Watership Down Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a similar award that authors may not win twice. In 1977 California schoolchildren selected it for the inaugural California Young Reader Medal in the Young Adult category, which annually honours one book from the last four years. In The Big Read, a 2003 survey of the British public, it was voted the forty-second greatest book of all time. The 1993 Puffin Modern Classics edition of the novel contains an afterword by Nicholas Tucker, who wrote that stories such as "Watership Down" "now fit rather uneasily into the modern world of consideration of both sexes". He contrasted