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The sidechain the OP is probably referring to is sidechain compression, where one track is linked to a compressor and triggers the compressor based on the compressor settings and the track feeding into it. With a low threshold, average-to-high ratio and no makeup gain, you can achieve a "pumping" sound much akin to someone putting their hand on the upfader of a mixer and moving up and down in a rhythmic fashion. Typically this is done on a four-to-the-floor track (not necessarily a 4/4 track for the musically ignorant out there), with the feeder track being the kick and the compressed track being a pad of some sort.
Of course sidechaining in and of itself doesn't necessarily refer to a compression technique. You could, for example, sidechain a beep onto a vocal, with a reverb effect being turned on and off. In effect, whenever the beep was heard, the vocal would get reverberated.
Sidechaining is also a form of daisy-chaining, where instead of having everything connected to a centralized focal point, something at the end of the chain must travel through several nodes before reaching the focal point.
So to answer the OP's question...I really like James Holden's Solstice - easily his best work.
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