Blues and hard rock guitarists making electronic albums in the late 90s/early 00s c/d

I really like Jeff Beck's ones. Who Else![/b] is really good but [i]You Had It Coming is even better - "Left Hook" completes the rock-to-IDM arc he initiated back in 1985 on a few songs from Flash, and it sounds like parts of Mike Oldfield's Guitars but better. Not heard Jeff yet

Gary Moore's A Different Beat is very flawed and big beat/cod-d'n'b at its beeriest but a cute idea - "let's hear it for the Fatboy!" and what not. Dark Days in Paradise, the one before it, lingers intermittingly interestingly in an AOR-trip hop-Britpop direction but "Always There for You" is where he first 'goes jungle', even if it sounds a bit like a Simply Red reggae track but doing Goldie instead of Gregory Issacs. Still don't mind it.

Clapton's 'jungle'/'ambient techno'/'trip hop' album with Simon Climie - T.D.F.'s Retail Therapy - seems clueless (graffiti cover art, Clapton calling himself 'xsample'), and it kinda is, but as with everything on this list I have a bit of a weakness for even total wallpaper 90s dance if there's a bit of a gimmick to go with it.

I've only heard two Joe Satriani albums and one is Engines of Creation, which is similar to Clapton's and ADB - the difference being I can't really imagine enjoying other Satriani stuff to it. "Attack" is a lot of fun, especially that part where the guitar locks into the same flickering-TV +8 rhythm as the breaks.

R.L. Burnside's Come On In, which is mostly a remix album (courtesy mostly of Tim Rothrock) but one Burnside got behind, is textbook post-Odelay. The Alec Empire track which is mostly drums is my favourite. Apparently Burnside's next album or two has stuff that's sort of similar.

Anything else in this sphere?

Never listened to this, but it fits the bill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Beach_(Chris_Rea_album)

I know Mike Oldfield lies outside the remit a little, but he did likewise

Not familiar with that one but I ought to hear it. 2000 was the year York sampled "On the Beach" and a dopey-looking Chris joined them on TOTP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90vUrXNmVn4

I tried to shoehorn Oldfield in still - though Guitars isn't a real example, unlike the albums that surround it.

And funnily enough, Oldfield would later make a whole album with York!

But then I guess, thanks to York (and ATB and others), Ibiza trance and bluesy Balearic guitar figures were a repeatedly demonstrated match

Oh yeah, I think it would be this kind of thing, again, never heard it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubular_Bells_III

I remember he did some poolside Q magazine interview at the time which in no way looked like he was having a midlife 'Crisis'

Band rather than solo guitarist (although I think it was pretty much an Andy Powell project by this point) but Wishbone Ash dipped their toes into these murky waters with 1998's "Trance Visionary", thus alienating their fanbase who were happy enough with the Ash's lightweight jammy guitar harmonies and not too fussed about ambient techno. There was a follow-up too! Then they went back to sounding like a cross between the Allmans and Thin Lizzy, and the fans breathed a sigh of relief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trance_Visionary

Tr3s Lunas is probably the Oldfield record closest to what you're describing; it was sold as his "chill-out" album, but in fact it's so electronic that there's very little guitar on it, and some of that may well be sampled.

I was thinking more Tubular Bells III - but also (to lesser extents) that one and The Millennium Bell

Really he'd been ploughing away like this since TBII, which when released allowed Mike to strut the place like the ambient techno elder statesman, though it is less 'techno' than III's nods to acid trance. The Orb and others who no doubt grew up with TB1 were brought in for remixes.

I still need to hear that Wishbone Ash stuff. The 'edgy' typeface on Trance Visionary seems the icing on the cake.

The og

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRIUUBlFVZ8

Sad SRV never got to make SRVDnB...

Then there's Würzel from Motörhead's "Chill-Out Or Die (The Ambient Album)" (1997), although possibly the recordings pre-dated his tenure with Lemmy? Not sure about that one. More on the Tangerine Dream / Steve Hillage side of things I think though, which is the music that inspired 1990s ambient in the first place so it all makes sense in the end.

Ngl I was half-expecting that not to exist and yet, there it is

Paul McCartney made three ambient/electronic records as The Fireman, I guess that qualifies?

Not quite blues/hard rock, but Robbie Robertson's 'Contact from the Underworld of Redboy' (1998) is the first thing that came to mind for me - albeit that it's more of an incremental, further-leaning-into existing Peter Gabriel tendencies situation rather than a full-scale switch-up.

Steve Hackett's 'Darktown' (1999) is a mixed bag, but there are a couple of tracks made in collaboration with Beats 'N' The Hood (possibly him?) on loops/rhythm design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In8l1w-tnAI