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In 1989 Wolf formed a production team with his former studio intern Bret “Epic” Mazur which they named Peace Productions but later became known as Wolf & Epic. Wolf’s vision was to play live the kind of funk & R&B that was being sampled from old records by hip-hop producers and then sample the new performances and overlay scratching & other hip-hop techniques to give it a new dimension. Wolf played guitar & keyboards, Epic played drums and DJ’d, and other musicians were brought in to fatten the sound. The first project Wolf & Epic worked on was Laquan, a politically minded rapper that they signed to their production company and then to 4th & Broadway/Island Records. ( John Pareles in the The New York Times wrote that Laquan was “among the better new radical rappers.. and may be the most serious 16 year-old in Los Angeles”). This was one of the first rap records to combine a live band with hip-hop scratching, sampling & rapping.

Before they would help to pioneer the fusion of hip-hop & R&B, Wolf & Epic were on the cutting edge of a new jazzy variation of hip-hop that became known as acid jazz. The Laquan song “Witness The Drift” was included in the first ever acid jazz compilation Rebirth of The Cool that also included A Tribe Called Quest & Stetsasonic,
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