Pre-Cert Home Entertainment is the vanity imprint that manufactures limited vinyl documents of contemporary musical and non-musical material researched by Demdike Stare (Modern Love) and Andy Votel (Finders Keepers) in the north of England. Part art, part trash, this open-ended, disposable archive combines a cross section of oblique influences such as sound research libraries, V.H.S. video culture, electronic Folkways records, sound poetry, tape manipulation, European fumetti, outsider art, and field recording to name but a few. With a continued aesthetic focus on the theatrical and macabre as well as a stylistic nod to the folkloric/industrial landscape of the anti-label’s local history, Pre-Cert aims to expand an open catalogue of man-made and mechanical music and disparate archival noise. Expect an obscure multi-hour audiovisual stream of conciousness that taps into the archival depths of the ID.
