it's funny, Dave Clarke, who is as purist techno as anyone was putting out furious rackets like this in 93. It was another kind of hardcore descended mutant really, it's not really like chicago acid it doesn't really owe much to funk or sex but more the oscillating calioscopic presentist moments in european electronic music. I've said this before I think Si goes a bit hard on techno in the book but i can't blame him as he was trying to make an intervension. but that hardcore of 91-92 disappears collectively in dance music as a hole by 95. and in a way that is a loss because it can only reappear in muted forms later.
never heard that track (Clarke certainly cleaned up his act within a few years!). starts out pretty exciting, but then in comes the acid-riff which really is like someone squirting you in the eye with a squeezy-plastic-lemon thingy full of bleach.
acid goes from something sinuous and endless gyrating involutions of cosmic strangeness (Chicago, late 89s) to something much narrower and nasty and consciousness-flattening by about 93
but yeah there was a lot of that hard-as-nails sinus-searing techno for pillmonsters music then... Rabbit City did a bunch, lots of other labels i can't even remember. Labworks? Djax as mentioned - banging but spartan. Clubs that never seemed alluring to me - Final Frontier, was that one? Lost? Knowledge I did go to and found very austere.
talking of reappearing in muted forms - i was recently listening to new-ish tracks by a deejay Terence Fixmer whose sound is a shiny digital-now update of that early hard industrial-tinged techno. good stuff but when you strip away the glossy hi-definition sound and the 3D drum production, in its fundamentals it is no further advanced than 80 Aum or something like that
it's not exactly muted, because it sounds monolithic and full-on - but something has gone, perhaps it's the hi-gloss, perhaps it's the very fact that it is a static form, long uncoupled from its moment, when it was emergent and the pulse of the future-now
bit like how Jack White makes fantastic-sounding records that are completely irrelevant because things have moved on since