i know squee's music very well as I produce the same kind of psy-trance. You don't really need to sidechain, just remove the bassline note from your sequence every time the kick hits. Unless you want to get creative in a dropdown or something and bust out a long pitch-sweeping sine wave while having your percussion running.

i route my kick drum and bassline to a group channel. Depending on how snappy i want my kick, i usually just eq it a little, sometimes i'll add a touch of 2:1 compression with a fast attack and hard knee to give it more midrange slap. On the bassline, i'll eq a little then add a 3:1 compressor with very slow attack and medium release mainly just to catch any super sub freq's that can get hot when I sustain a note longer than 1/16th (or sometimes 1/32nd note, depending on the bassline). The main key in the bassline eq is using it as a notch filter to find the resonant frequency and pull it out with -18 db spike at the thinnest Q possible.

On the group channel, i'll just pop on a Vintage Warmer or Cubase's Quadrafuzz for a little tube warmth and harmonic distortion to glue the bass together as a cohesive entity. Usually I mix around the kick and bass with my other instruments. If you pull the low end out of your other synths and percussion, it will leave a very nice open "pocket" for your kick and bass to live happily and bouncily ever after, mud free. :-)

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