Yep, I think mig is spot on.
You need a compressor over the main parts of a sequence, and sidechain that compressor to a kick.

For this kinda sound, I send all the stuff I want to "pump" to a separate bus, with the sidechained compressor in this bus. That way, you can get stuff to pump, but other sounds that you want to retain a dynamic with, can be untouched by the compression.