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
Richard Adams it as a book. He began writing in 1966, taking two years to complete it. In 1972, after four publishers and three writers' agencies turned down the manuscript, Rex Collings agreed to publish the work. The book gained international acclaim almost immediately for reinvigorating anthropomorphic fiction with naturalism. Over the next few years "Watership Down" sold over a million copies worldwide. Adams won both of the most prestigious British children's book awards, one of six authors to do so: the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. In 1974, following publication of his second novel, "Shardik", he left the