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 obituary of Collings, to accept "a book as bizarre by an unknown writer which had been turned down by the major London publishers; but," she continued, "it was also dazzlingly brave and intuitive." Collings had little capital and could not pay an advance but "he got a review copy onto every desk in London that mattered." Adams wrote that it was Collings who gave "Watership Down" its title. There was a second edition in 1973. Macmillan USA, then a media giant, published the first U.S. edition in 1974 and a Dutch edition was also published that year by Het Spectrum.