Editing Mike Oldfield (section)

===1992–2003: Warner years===
By early 1992, Oldfield had secured Clive Banks as his new manager and had several record label owners listen to his demo of ''[[Tubular Bells II]]'' at his house. Oldfield signed with [[Rob Dickins]] of [[Warner Music Group|WEA Warner]] and recorded the album with [[Trevor Horn]] as producer.<ref name=TS12/> Released in August 1992, the album went to No. 1 in the UK. Its live premiere followed on 4 September at [[Edinburgh Castle]] which was released on home video as ''[[Tubular Bells II Live]]''. Oldfield supported the album with his Tubular Bells II 20th Anniversary Tour in 1992 and 1993, his first concert tour since 1984. By April 1993, the album had sold over three million copies worldwide.<ref name="TI93">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/arts-sound-as-a-bell-twenty-years-ago-tubular-bells-rang-out-for-the-first-time-now-after-years-of-1453352.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220514/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/arts-sound-as-a-bell-twenty-years-ago-tubular-bells-rang-out-for-the-first-time-now-after-years-of-1453352.html |archive-date=14 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Sound as a bell|first=Charles|last=Nevin|date=4 April 1993|work=The Independent|access-date=18 September 2019}}</ref>

Oldfield continued to embrace new musical styles, with ''[[The Songs of Distant Earth (album)|The Songs of Distant Earth]]'' (based on [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s [[Songs of Distant Earth|novel of the same name]]) exhibiting a softer new-age sound. In 1994, he also had an [[asteroid]], [[5656 Oldfield]], named after him.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/special/rocknroll/0005656.html |title=Oldfield 5656 |publisher=[[Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics]] |access-date=2 April 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://tubular.net/articles/1998_09 |title=Mike Oldfield Interview |publisher=[[BBC Radio 2]] |date=9 September 1998 |access-date=2 April 2008}}</ref>

In 1995, Oldfield continued to embrace new musical styles by producing the [[Celtic music|Celtic]]-themed album ''[[Voyager (Mike Oldfield album)|Voyager]]''. In 1992, Oldfield met [[Luar na Lubre]], a Galician Celtic-folk band (from [[A Coruña]], Spain), with the singer [[Rosa Cedrón]]. The band's popularity grew after Oldfield covered their song "O son do ar" ("The sound of the air") on his ''Voyager'' album.

In 1998, Oldfield produced [[Tubular Bells III|the third ''Tubular Bells'' album]] (also premiered at a [[Tubular Bells III Live|concert]], this time in [[Horse Guards Parade]], London), drawing on the [[dance music]] scene at his then new home on the island of [[Ibiza]]. This album was inspired by themes from ''Tubular Bells'', but differed in lacking a clear two-part structure.

During 1999, Oldfield released two albums. The first, ''[[Guitars (Mike Oldfield album)|Guitars]]'', used guitars as the source for all the sounds on the album, including percussion. The second, ''[[The Millennium Bell]]'', consisted of [[pastiche]]s of a number of styles of music that represented various historical periods over the past millennium. The work was [[The Art in Heaven Concert|performed live]] in Berlin for the city's millennium celebrations in 1999–2000.

He added to his repertoire the [[MusicVR]] project, combining his music with a [[virtual reality]]-based computer game. His first work on this project is ''[[Tres Lunas]]'' launched in 2002, a virtual game where the player can interact with a world full of new music. This project appeared as a double CD, one with the music and the other with the [[Tres Lunas (video game)|game]].

In 2002 and 2003, Oldfield re-recorded ''Tubular Bells'' using modern equipment to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the original. He had wanted to do it years before but his contract with Virgin kept him from doing so.<ref name=SOS02>{{cite web|url=https://tubular.net/articles/2002_11/Mike-Oldfield-Sound-on-Sound|title=Mike Oldfield - Sound on Sound|date=November 2002|first=Mark|last=Wherry|work=Sound on Sound|access-date=22 September 2019}}</ref> This new version featured [[John Cleese]] as the Master of Ceremonies, as [[Viv Stanshall]], who spoke on the original, died in the interim. ''[[Tubular Bells 2003]]'' was released in May 2003.