for that obvious compression sound try sticking a compressor on the master channel and turning the kick up, reduce the release till it sounds good, try a ratio somewhere between 1:1 and 4:1 ... there are more complicated ways of making that breathing effect involving busses ... i'm sure there are loads of posts on here somewhere describing how to make it work with side chains and the like...

if you stick one on the kick channel it'll just change the amplitude envelope on the kick which may be a good thing but it isn't the pumping compressor sound i think you are talking about...