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 Civil Service to become a full-time author. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1975. At one point, Adams served as writer-in-residence at the University of Florida and at Hollins University in Virginia. Adams was the recipient of the inaugural Whitchurch Arts Award for inspiration in January 2010, presented at the Watership Down pub in Freefolk, Hampshire. In 2015 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Winchester. In 1982, Adams served one year as president of the RSPCA. Besides campaigning against furs, Adams wrote "The Plague Dogs" to satirize animal experimentation (as