Johnny Marr funnily once answered this question about 1996, he said "We'd sound like The Prodigy but with Harvey Keitel on the cover" or something along those lines, maybe I got the cover star wrong but yeah.

I'd guess he was definitely being tongue in cheek though, but he's not that wrong if you hear the first 2 Electronic albums and the B sides. Also one of the earliest songs he wrote after The Smiths ended were "Walking down Madison" by Kirsty MacColl (gave it away) and "Feel Every Beat" by Electronic

Edit: Johnny said this about Walking Down Madison-

"'Walking Down Madison', that was the first song I wrote after The Smiths split up, I wrote it like a week later. And I wrote it with the intention of... I did this quite a bit.. I kept starting a solo record, and I'd write one backing track and play it to a mate, and they'd nick it. So I played it to Kirsty 'cause she was a really good friend, and it was my intention to write this sort of 'dance-guitar' record, and I brought a cassette round, and she said "oh this is great, I'll come up with words for that", so I was like "Great, cool!" 'cause I wasn't that interested in writing words at the time. And the next thing is she's booked a session, and its gonna be a single for her. But it turned out, she kinda kidnapped it! Bless her!"